Competitions ๐
Home Learning Certificates
Try and collect the full set by sending lots of home learning pictures, videos, writing, drawings to your teachers.
๐ House Teams ๐
The children in Key Stage 2 are all members of house teams, where they compete for points each week and try to take the trophy in Friday assemblies.
The four teams are named after significant people who made a great contribution to Newton Heath in the past. You can see information on these people below.
Butterworth
Butterworth Brothers Ltd was a glass making company based in Newton Heath, Manchester. Its earliest constituent company, Atherton and Whalley, was founded in 1795, although Butterworth Brothers itself only existed from the 1860s. In 1886 it was incorporated as a limited company, when the then Senior Partner, William Butterworth, became the first Managing Director. His son, Walter Butterworth, was Chairman of the Company from 1894 until 1935, and Walter's son, Lionel Angus-Butterworth, became Secretary. The Company were specialists in industrial glassware, lighting glassware and surgical glass, and were contractors to the Government.
Mitchell
Hannah Mitchell (1872โ1956) was a lifelong fighter for democracy and fairness, put in Strangeways prison in 1906 during the campaign for votes for women.
She went on to become a councillor in Manchester, representing Newton Heath.
In her autobiography The Hard Way Up she mentions one of her proudest achievements being the public wash house which she struggled to get built to make working womenโs lives easier.
Her desire for โbeauty in civic lifeโ blossomed in her work on public libraries, parks and gardens.
Sivori
Emmanuel Sivori started his ice cream business in 1910 when he moved to Manchester from the mountain village of Velva, near Genova.
Over the years the business grew to a point where there were many Sivoriโs cafes and vans. One of the cafes was on Oldham Road in Newton Heath.
Taylor
James Taylor owned Newton Silk Mill in the 19th Century, which can still be seen today at the junction of Droylsden Road and Oldham Road. He built the grand Brookdale Hall which used to be in what is now Brookdale Park, but has since been demolished.
He donated a large stained glass window to the new All Saints Church when it was rebuilt.