Headteacher’s Bulletin (January 2025)
The latest information from the Headteacher can be download here: Headteacher’s Bulletin – January 2025
Weekly Sports Round-Up (31 January 2025)
Netball Three of our netball teams were in action against Caldew on Thursday, 30th January, with our Year 10 team and our Year 9 A&B teams playing. The Year 10 team demonstrated some excellent interceptions in their game against a very strong and experienced opposition. WHS played exceptionally well during the middle part of the…
Fantastic Football Champions Experience
A group of William Howard students had a fantastic night watching Manchester City in the Champions League. 41 students travelled to see the current English Champions and they got to see some of Europe’s elite players in a 3-1 win!
A Competitive Day of Boccia
Today we hosted the Carlisle and Eden Secondary Schools’ Boccia Competition at William Howard School. Between Trinity School, St John Henry Newman Catholic School and our own teams, the competition them was fierce with six teams in total. Sadly, a few other schools withdrew beforehand but with a smaller number of teams, they were able…
Year 8 Assessment Superstars
A huge well done to all our Year 8 students for their hard work and dedication during their Assessment Week (13th-17th January). It was brilliant to see the high levels of knowledge, understanding and skills throughout the whole cohort! Congratulations to all those who received an award for the highest score in their class. An extra shoutout…
Planning for Countywide Inclusive Sports Day
Today was the planning day for the YST Inclusive Sports Leadership Day that we are hosting at William Howard School on Friday, 7th February, with schools from around Cumbria attending. Rachael Mackenzie, athlete mentor for the Youth Sports Trust and former World Champion Thai boxer, visited WHS to meet with Mrs Croucher (our PE Inclusion Lead),…
Endeavours Add Up to Headteacher’s Award
This week, the Headteacher’s Award goes to Bella Richardson. Since moving into her new Maths class Bella has proved to be a simply outstanding pupil. Bella is polite, respectful, eager to do well and works exceptionally hard in and out of the classroom. She asks for extra past papers to complete and makes the most…
Exploring Choices in Computing Science
Members of our Computer Science A Level Year 12 group attended a Discovery Day at the Lancaster Campus of the University of Cumbria on Thursday, 16th January. The new Computer Science course at Cumbria University has been created with the input of BAE, so this was an opportunity to see how this collaboration had worked…
Lively Open Spaces
We’d like to give a big shoutout to our fantastic Open Spaces group! With an overall membership of 77 students, there are between 30 and 40 students who come along regularly to Open Spaces during break time each day, to help with all the daily jobs including caring for the animals and plants. Since September…
Standing Out From the Flock
Year 12 student Grace received this week’s Headteacher’s Award. Grace has demonstrated the highest level of commitment to developing her character by undertaking a wide range of enrichment opportunities, to really stand out from the crowd. Recently, she was successful in the “Centre for Leadership Performance Dream Placement” interviews and will undertake a placement at…