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…
DetailsWilliam 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…
DetailsDuring 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…
DetailsWe’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…
DetailsOur Table Cricket Team headed to Durham Cricket Ground on Monday for the Lord’s Taverners North-East Regional Table Cricket Finals and the chance to win a place in the National Finals at Lord’s. There were eight teams competing from across Cumbria, Northumberland and County Durham, split into two pools. Our team began well winning their…
DetailsEarly on Tuesday morning, our excited but slightly nervous table cricket team headed off to Durham Cricket Ground to compete in the Lord’s Taverners North-East Table Cricket Regional Finals. The games got underway at 10.30am with the top six teams from the North-East of England all competing against each other. In their first match, they…
DetailsOur table cricket team are off to Lord’s in two weeks’ time to play in the Lord’s Taverners National Table Cricket Finals. On Monday, 9 June, Ben Pitkeathly from Carlisle United Football Club came along to see them in action at their after-school club and presented them with a signed Carlisle United football to use…
DetailsHuge congratulations go to Year 8 student Reuben Dorey who did fantastically well competing in the Cumbria County Swimming Championships at the weekend. Reuben competed in the 13-14 yrs boys category and these are his results: 1st place: 50m freestyle 800m freestyle (fastest 13 YO – all ages swim together) 50m backstroke 100m backstroke 200m…
DetailsThis week’s Headteacher’s Award was proudly presented to Benji from Year 9. Benji is a truly exceptional member of the Year 9 cohort at William Howard School, consistently demonstrating maturity, kindness and a strong sense of responsibility. He is a considerate and thoughtful individual who regularly goes above and beyond to support others, whether through…
DetailsCongratulations to our Year 9 students for their hard work and dedication during Assessment Week (28th April – 2nd May)! The year group performed exceptionally well in their recent assessments, with many students receiving awards for achieving the highest scores in their class. The average score for the 25-mark tests increased in this round, which is…
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