Year Group Newsletters (May 2024)
News stories and information from our Year Groups can be downloaded here: Year 7 Newsletter May 2024 Year 8 Newsletter May 2024 Year 9 Newsletter May 24 Year 10 Newsletter May 2024 Sixth Form Newsletter May 2024
Green for Mental Health Awareness
Last Friday, the Sixth Form all dressed in green to support Mental Health Awareness Week. To raise awareness of the link between movement and mental health, students were invited to take part in a step challenge, from Monday to Thursday). Well done to Fern Miller who won in Year 13 with 38,187 steps; and Rufus…
Stand Out Artwork
In the Art Department, a stand-out piece of work is chosen every half term. This half term, the accolade goes to Charlie Mclellan and Warren Taylor from Year 8 for their piece in the style of the famous ‘Doodle’ artist, Jon Burgerman. Jon Burgerman is a British artist based in New York. His vibrant, playful…
Headteacher’s Award for Highly-Motivated Languages Student
Iona Elder was presented with this week’s Headteacher’s Award for her outstanding attitude in trying to better herself. Recently, Iona asked her Spanish teacher if she could sit the Higher paper rather than Foundation, as she’d decided she may want to pursue the language at A Level. Iona completed multiple papers in her own time…
Multi-Sports Joy
Following on from their success earlier in the year at a North Cumbria Multi-Sports event, our Year 8 team were invited to the Active Cumbria and Panathlon County Finals at Penrith Leisure Centre yesterday. They had a wonderful afternoon competing against five other secondary schools from around Cumbria. Each team rotated around six different activities…
Water Safety Awareness
With the holidays and warm summer weather approaching, members of the Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service came into school today to present water safety advice to every year group. Sadly, recent tragic events have highlighted the dangers that swimming and water activities can bring. In the special assemblies, the students were reminded about grave hazards,…
Alumna of the Month (May 2024)
Our Alumna of the Month for May is Emily Nicholson (now Brown). Emily left William Howard School in 2013 after her A Levels with the ambition to become an Adult Nurse. She studied locally at the University of Cumbria and completed a year of their course “Working with Children and Families”, where she gained the…
Beginning the UCAS Process
John Simpson from the University of Cumbria came in last week to deliver a presentation to the Year 12 students on how to apply to University and specifically got them thinking about what should be included in a personal statement. The students were reminded to create a UCAS hub account and they can start completing…
Historians Try Medieval Fun
Do you think there was much fun to be had during Medieval Times? Mr Campbell’s Year 7 History class headed out to the sports field on Friday to find out. They’ve been studying Medieval England and what life for people in different social groups was like. They discovered that some of their pastimes and games…
Bonding Through Bushcraft Skills
Our Services Families students enjoyed a day learning bushcraft skills on Wednesday, building on the camaraderie and teamwork that was established last month during their raft building day. Experienced instructor, Des Bradder, come in to teach them various survival skills including 4 elements of bushcraft: cord, cutting, canvas, and container. They discovered what do you…