Steaming Through the Summer Holidays

It’s great to hear about the exciting things our students filled the summer holidays with. One student, Archie Dixon, spent his time training to be a volunteer guard on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway over in West Cumbria. He is following in his father’s footsteps, who volunteered for over 30 years as a guard and…

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Standing Out From the Flock

Year 12 student Grace received this week’s Headteacher’s Award. Grace has demonstrated the highest level of commitment to developing her character by undertaking a wide range of enrichment opportunities, to really stand out from the crowd. Recently, she was successful in the “Centre for Leadership Performance Dream Placement” interviews and will undertake a placement at…

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Stand Out Artwork

In the Art Department, a stand-out piece of work is chosen every half term. This half term, the accolade goes to Charlie Mclellan and Warren Taylor from Year 8 for their piece in the style of the famous ‘Doodle’ artist, Jon Burgerman. Jon Burgerman is a British artist based in New York. His vibrant, playful…

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Staff Enjoy Fells Together

The WHS staff walking club enjoyed their first outing of the year on Saturday, despite the cold, cloudy conditions and a spatter of the inevitable rain. Everyone was in good spirits and appreciated the time to chat and enjoy each other’s company, outside of the usual busy school day. Setting off from Bassenthwaite, they were…

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Spreading Christmas Greetings

Our students have been spreading festive cheer to the older members of our community, with hand-decorated Christmas cards. During Tutor Time this week, students have been adding creative designs and meaningful messages to the cards. On Friday, our Sixth Form Leadership team were out and about, delivering them to the local care homes – Howard…

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Sports Round-up From an Active Thursday

Mrs Henderson’s Hockey Report: A solid team performance from both of WHS girls 7-a-side hockey teams in their second match of the season. Playing with newly formed teams, both the Year 7/8 combined team and Year 8/9 team displayed great teamwork, good individual skills, and great resilience. Both teams further developed their ‘games play’ and…

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Sports Round-up (7 November 2025)

Year 7 Football Well Done to the Year 7 football teams who represented William Howard School at the City 5 aside tournaments. Both teams performed well and their work rate was excellent. The girls team picked up two wins with an outstanding contribution from Dana F. The boys teams managed one win and one draw…

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Sports Round-up (5 December 2025)

Netball Our Year 8 and 10 netball teams were in action on Wednesday night against Trinity. The Year 8 team started strongly with some good passing to link up the different areas of the court. Some excellent defensive interceptions from Poppy, Tilly and Annie limited any scoring opportunities for the opposition and allowed William Howard…

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Sports Round-up (28 November 2025)

Year 7 Netball Our year 7 Netball teams faced tough competition against two strong teams in their fixture against Caldew. Despite being defeated in both games, William Howard improved in each quarter with some excellent interceptions, and some promising link up play. Maya and Neeve were voted players of the game by Caldew. We are…

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