Sports Roundup (19 June 2026)

Year 9 Cricket Year 9s had their annual Cricket City Tournament on Tuesday at Edenside. All students performed exceptionally across their two games, including a remarkable comeback in their final game against NTS. Requiring 72 to win, WHS found themselves 36/8, however an excellent fightback from Lewis, Matthew and Will got us over the line…

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Sports Roundup (13 February 2026)

New 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…

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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 (8th May 2026)

Boccia Following on from their success at the Carlisle and Eden Boccia Competition earlier in the year, one of our Boccia teams travelled to Penrith to compete in the County Competition on Friday. There were eight teams in total from around the whole county, all winners of their earlier, more local events. Competition was fierce…

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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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Sports Round-up (24 October 2025)

U16’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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