Once again, our new Year 7s have begun their History course with a study of the local area, helping the students appreciate the relationship between a place and historical events. Each class is taking a guided tour of Brampton, highlighting the fascinating significance of some of its landmarks. The whistle-stop tours included St Martin’s Church,…
Well done to Year 9 student, Lily Prudham who received the Headteacher’s award from Ms Pigdon this week. Lily was nominated by a teacher for her dedication, focus and talent that not only is seen through her studies in school but also in her Karate. She is already a brown belt and, even more importantly,…
Astonishingly, our age defying Cleaning Manager, Margaret Smith celebrated her 80th birthday recently. She has been a cleaner at William Howard School for 47 years, starting in 1976 at the White House School site. That’s a colossal mileage of vacuuming! Margaret isn’t planning to hang up her duster any time soon though. Ms Pigdon said:…
Our new Student Leadership Team did an amazing job of organising a coffee morning in support of Macmillan Cancer Support this morning. As part of the charity’s World Biggest Coffee Morning, staff and Sixth Form students were invited to come along during Break 1 and enjoy a cuppa, cake and a catch-up. There were some incredible, tempting…
On Thursday, 21 September, we held an information evening for parents of new Year 12 students. Mrs Swan’s presentation, outlining key aspects of Sixth Form life, can be downloaded here: Step up to Sixth Form Parents Evening
Our A Level French students flourished on their recent immersive visit to France, where they had lessons and visited a museum to learn about the French Resistance; learnt about Oradour-sur-Glane and then visited the memorial village; had a tour of a château and saw frescoes from the Middle Ages; had a conversation lesson with French…
Year 11 student, Jacob Dearman was presented this week’s Headteacher Award; his self-motivation really impressed Ms Pidgon. Jacob completed 13 lengthy mastery booklets of exam questions for Biology, Chemistry and Physics that he’d collected from his teachers before the summer holidays. During the summer break, he fully attempted the questions and self-assessed his responses, making…
In an animated English lesson, Ms Scullion joined Ms Ledger in role as ‘Professor Hawthorn’ – specialist in carnivorous dinosaurs, as Year 7 students presented their work as ‘dinosaur experts’ to compete for the chance to exhibit their findings in The Museum of New Discoveries. Ms Ledger took the role of the Museum’s curator ‘Professor…
During the summer holidays, Sixth Form student, Eilidh Nugent arranged some work experience with Black Box Architects, to further understand the work of Architecture and explore if it would be something she wanted to study further. Eilidh is studying Product Design, Geography and Biology A Levels. Eilidh said: “I worked alongside Malcolm Wilson and Chris…
Business Students took part in an information workshop with the Secondary Progamme Manager from the Centre for Leadership Performance on Wednesday afternoon. The Centre for Leadership Performance ‘Dream Placement’ offers Sixth Form students the opportunity to shadow a CEO of a company, through a week of high-level work experience, which takes place during February half…