Telling Ghostly Tales
Keeping alive the Dickensian custom of ghost stories at Christmas time, Mrs Donohue’s Year 7 Literacy class put into practice their oracy skills, delighting — and frightening — one another with their own eerie tales yesterday.
Technical Theatre Students Create Characterful Daemons
Using the play ‘The Book of Dust’ by Philip Pullman as inspiration, Year 9 Technical Theatre students have been creating their very own ‘daemon’ puppets. In Pullman’s thrilling series of fantasy books, daemons are the physical manifestations of the souls of humans which assume the forms of animals. Students were tasked to research and design their…
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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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Team WHS Push Their Limits for Comic Relief Fundraising
Fundraising for Comic Relief, an indomitable squad from William Howard School completed gruelling distances in cycling, running and swimming during an Ironman challenge on Saturday 21 March. Thankfully, the team of staff, students and friends were blessed with glorious blue skies to match their team T‑shirts. Eight cyclists, fronted by Headteacher Ms Pigdon, took on an…
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Team Inspire Welcome the Penrith Over 65’s Club for Inclusive Sport Morning
Team Inspire Welcome the Penrith Over 65’s Club for Inclusive Sport Morning Our Team Inspire students were delighted to welcome members of the Penrith Over 65’s Club back to WHS for their second morning of inclusive sport. Following a very successful first meeting last December, the Over 65’s Club arrived in larger numbers, 19 in total,…
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Teachers Encouraged to Take a Risk in Lessons
After the success of last year’s “Take a Risk” week, we once again asked all teachers across the school to think about engaging, innovative ways that they could teach the curriculum throughout the week. Deputy Headteacher, Mr Trewhitt, commented: “It has been a pleasure to be invited into lessons to see teachers thinking differently about…
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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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