New Sensory Opened With Support From Rotary
Our beautiful new Sensory Room was officially opened on Wednesday by Tony Parrini from Brampton and Longtown Rotary. During his visit, Tony spoke with several…
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The school has high expectations of pupils’ achievement [and] provides an ambitious curriculum (Ofsted 2025)
Pupils quickly develop a strong feeling of belonging to this school. They are united by their understanding of ‘The William Howard Way’ (Ofsted 2025)
The school provides a comprehensive programme of personal development that prepares pupils well for life in modern society (Ofsted 2025)
Every effort is made to ensure that these pupils [with special educational needs] experience all that the school has to offer (Ofsted 2025)
The calm and purposeful learning environment, together with the plethora of extra-curricular opportunities, has helped to achieve a school that pupils want to attend (Ofsted 2025)
Recent News and Events
Carol Concert Filled With Christmas Cheer
Brampton Methodist Church was absolutely packed last night for our Carol Service, and we hope everyone who joined us enjoyed the magical evening of festive music, poetry and readings. Our students truly excelled themselves—every performance from the choir, orchestra, rock clubs and drama students was fantastic! A huge thank you to Mrs Cooper, Miss Maclachlan,…
New Student Librarians Recruited
The autumn term is the time when we invite students to apply for the position of Student Librarian. This year, as in previous years, the…
A Mega Day of Multi-Sports
Our sports hall was full of excited students on Monday for the CET Panathlon Multi-Sports Competition. Seven teams from across the Trust’s Secondary Schools took part: three from William Howard School, two from Whitehaven Academy, one from Workington Academy and one from Kirkby Stephen Grammar School. Debbie Davies from the children’s charity Panathlon arrived early…
Practicing Patience to Create Pet Portraits
The Year 9 Character Curriculum Art class have been learning a new craft – needle felting. After sketching the outlines of their pets or favourite animals onto hessian backing, the students use specialist felting needles to carefully poke and blend wool fibres into place. Through patience and creativity, their simple drawings are gradually transformed into…
Telling Ghostly Tales
Keeping alive the Dickensian custom of ghost stories at Christmas time, Mrs Donohue’s Year 7 Literacy class put into practice their oracy skills, delighting — and frightening — one another with their own eerie tales yesterday.
Celebrating our Valued Student Leaders
Festive celebrations took place at lunchtime today at a gathering to thank our incredible student leaders for their outstanding contribution to William Howard School this…
Headteacher’s Award for Dedicated Member of Team Inspire
A Year 10 student who has shown exceptional dedication as a member of Team Inspire received this week’s Headteacher’s Award. Amy attends every inclusive sports…
