Year 13 students, Lucy McKeown and Euan Dawson recently took LAMDA Grade 8 Gold Medal Acting Solo exams, and we are proud to announce that they did exceptionally well, passing with Distinction. Lucy and Euan worked incredibly hard in preparation and their teacher, Ms Lewis, is delighted with the results. A Distinction at Grade 8…
Our top Year 7 and 8 mathematicians tackled the UK Maths Trust’s Junior Mathematical Challenge today. https://ukmt.org.uk/junior-challenges/junior-mathematical-challenge The 60-minute, 25 multiple choice question paper encourages mathematical reasoning, precision of thought and fluency to make students think. To recognize the highest performers in the challenge, the UK Maths Trust award the country’s top-scoring 50% of participants…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…