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…
DetailsOur 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…
DetailsYear 7 Football Well Done to all the year 7 students who represented the school football team yesterday. In cold, wet and dark conditions all students worked extremely hard for their team. Awesome effort lads!
DetailsNew Age Kurling With the Winter Olympics just beginning, five of our students headed to Penrith for the County New Age Kurling finals on Friday. The sports hall was buzzing with students from all over Cumbria. Primary and secondary school competitions were held alongside each other each with eight teams in each. Our team played…
DetailsMrs 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…
DetailsYear 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…
DetailsNetball 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…
DetailsSixth Form Football Our Sixth Form football team enjoyed a great game with QEGS this week, holding on for a 4-3 victory through the final minutes. Man of the Match was Angus Peace who scored a first half hat trick! A shout out also goes to Dan Cattermole for his performance in goals, saving a…
DetailsYear 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…
DetailsU16’s Netball Tournament – Wednesday 10th October. Netball coach, Miss Carruthers reports: “What a pleasure it was to take the U16’s Netball team to Trinity yesterday evening. The sun shone and the team were in good spirits. I can honestly say that this team has made huge improvements in relation to their competitive game play.…
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