Terrific Trilobites

Year 8 Rock Detectives (part of our Character Curriculum) have been exploring how fossils can tell us about the environments of the past. They created intricate trilobite models using rope to better understand their adaptations. Trilobite fossils are found all over the world. They are a group of extinct marine creatures that first appeared around…

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Terrific Ten Pin Team Spirit

Twelve excited Years 7 and 8 students headed off to Hollywood Bowl in Carlisle yesterday, for the annual Panathlon North Cumbria Secondary Schools’ Ten-Pin Bowling Challenge.   Twenty teams took over the venue for the morning, all having a wonderful time. Laughter and happy voices could be heard all around while they bowled.   Both…

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Tenpin Excitement

The excitement was palpable on Monday morning as twelve Year 7 students left William Howard heading for Hollywood Bowl. It was again time for the North Cumbria Secondary Schools’ Panathlon Tenpin Challenge! By 11am, every lane was taken and 21 teams began battling it out to find a new North Cumbria tenpin champion. Our two…

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Teamwork for Faraday Challenge Day

A slightly apprehensive group of Year 8 students found themselves in teams on Tuesday morning listening to a quartet of representatives from the Institution of Engineering and Technology present them with a challenge: to develop a safer road system for their local area, thinking about all stakeholders including the environment. It was a big ask…

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Teamwork and Resilence Secure Win for Year 7 Team

What a match we witnessed today in the second round of the National Schools’ Cup, where our Year 7 football team triumphed over RR Central Academy with a hard-fought 2-1 victory! From the outset, Central fielded a formidable side, striking first within 10 minutes, leaving the WHS boys momentarily scrambling for control. But credit to…

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Teachers Celebrate and Share Projects

William Howard’s teachers gathered after school on Monday (18th March) to celebrate the completion of their Departmental Projects. For the last few months, Departments have been working on a range of professional development projects, including: improving active engagement, live marking, strategies to improve reading and strategies to improve the impact of assessment. After some celebratory…

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Taking a Risk For Innovative Lessons

During Cumbria Education Trust’s “Be the best you can be week”, students are given the chance to really push, challenge and express themselves. Here at WHS, our teaching staff have also been challenged to “take a risk”, this week. It has been exciting to see how staff are using different teaching and learning methods to…

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Taiwanese Exchange Reignited

We’re very excited to restart our exchange programme to Taiwan, which used to run prior to Covid. On Monday and Tuesday this week, we welcomed to WHS a group of staff and students from Lanya Junior High School in Taipei. As well as shadowing partner students for some lessons, they enjoyed a Brampton town trial…

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