Our Inspiring Golden Apple Award Winner

We are exceptionally proud of our Apprentice Teaching Assistant, Oksana Pereima, who took home the Best Apprentice award at the latest Golden Apple Awards, which recognises excellence in education and learning. Ms Pereima and her three children moved to the UK from Ukraine, with the help of her host family Dr Storr (Chair of WHS…

Celebrating Autumn

We celebrated all things autumnal today with a bustling Harvest Festival. It proved a wonderful way for Year 7 students to engage with local agriculture and learn about sustainability. The range of activities – from exploring animal habitats and crafts, to visiting the ‘pumpkin patch’- made for a memorable afternoon. Year 8 Enterprise students were…

Border Reivers – Scoundrels or Loveable Rogues?

As part of their first unit on local History, our Year 7 students have been investigating two conflicting interpretations of the Border Reivers. Many Cumbrians can trace their own origins to the Reivers and we have been exploring how historians have remembered them as either scoundrels or loveable rogues. 7X1 studied a high-level text and…