County Cup Winners

Our Year 10 boys did us proud at the County Cup Final, played at the Sheepmount in Carlisle on Tuesday 23rd April. Here is a report of the exciting match from the their coach, Mr Davies: The team got off to a great start when Jamie Parkin crossed from a corner kick and Olly Martindale…

Extraordinary Olympian Experience

Eight Year 12 students along with Mrs Croucher embarked on an unforgettable trip to Athens and Olympia for the 2024 European School Sport and Educational Games. Here’s a brief diary from their week-long adventure: DAY 1 (13 April) The group set off in the early hours of Saturday morning (2.00am) for Newcastle Airport. (A huge thank…

Making History

Year 7 History classes are continuing to impress their teachers with their designs and models of Norman Motte and Bailey, and Stone Keep castles. Here is a selection from Mr Wilson’s group.   The variety of materials and methods used is wonderful: from clay to cake, and Minecraft to real natural materials. Some of the…

Student Success Stories

We’re always excited to hear about individual students’ interests and successes. Here are just a few of those achievements to be proud of: Hugh congratulations to Year 10 student Bella Richardson who won in the 2024 North of England Trampolining Reginal Semi-finals, which took place in Billingham on Sunday. She now goes on to compete…

Rafts Without Rifts

Our Service Family students had an adventurous Monday afternoon at Talkin Adventures, building and sailing rafts on the tarn. Working in teams, the pupils were challenged to build a raft and learn to paddle it on the water, without falling in. Clearly, they had lots of fun! One or two ended up in the water…

Headteacher’s Award for Resilient Student

Conscientious Year 10 student, Max Foster was chosen to receive the Headteacher’s Award this week. Max has shown the utmost resilience recovering and returning to school following a serious sporting injury. He has displayed the highest level of academic excellence and is consistently achieving outstanding results in his GCSE subjects. Max is focused and hard…

Third Place for Table Cricketers in Regional Finals

The WHS table cricket team travelled to Durham University to compete in the Lord’s Tavener’s North-East Regional Table Cricket Finals on Thursday 18th April. To make it this far, the teams attending had had to do well both at their local competition and then at the county competition. Now there were just six teams competing…

Year 10 Footballers Through to County Cup Final

Our Year 10 boys football team played the first of their two semi-finals on Tuesday. Playing a very good team from Cockermouth, the boys started slowly and conceded first going into half time 1-0 down. After some reflection at half time, they came out and scored in the first minutes of the 2nd half, with…

Musicians Play in Spain

51 of our musicians had an incredible trip to Spain during the first week of the Easter holidays. As well as giving fantastic performances at Poble Espanol and Loret de Mar, their packed itinerary included visits to Barcelona (Las Ramblas and La Boqueria Market), a visit to the beautiful medieval walled town of Girona and…

Headteacher Award for a Wonderful Role Model

Bella Judd is the deserving recipient of this week’s Headteacher’s Award. Bella is always punctual, polite, willing to put herself forward for all opportunities and is a wonderful role model to younger students in school. Bella has amassed 939 achievement points this year – with these being regularly awarded for Learner of the Lesson, going out of her…