Literacy Leaders Share Skills
With help from Ms Booker, Literacy Leaders from Years 8 and 10 have done a fantastic job of planning and creating resources which they are now using to help some Year 7 students with their literacy skills.
Certificates Awarded to Year 7 Mathematicians
Years 7 and students who participated in the UK Maths Trust Junior Mathematical Challenge at the end of April received their certificates this week. They all gained a participation certificate and some of our students successfully achieved bronze, silver or gold certificates for attaining high scores. To recognize the highest performers in the challenge, the…
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Year 10 University Aspirations
Year 10 students who are on the Graduate Aspirations Programme attended a virtual interactive workshop with Oxford University today on “critical thinking”. This followed on from an in person visit earlier this year. The students on the programme are completing a research project to evidence critical thinking and will present this to a panel at…
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Students Help Uncover Roman Carlisle
A group of William Howard students from Years 7, 8 and 13 took part in the ‘Uncovering Roman Carlisle’ excavations at Carlisle Cricket Club on Saturday. One group of students excavated a Roman midden (rubbish) layer in the southern part of the site, uncovering pieces of pottery, glass and animal bone. The other group had…
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Dedicated Dancer Earns Headteacher’s Award
This week’s Headteacher’s Award goes to Penny Hodgson in Year 8. Penny is not only an exceptional student who continually works hard in all her subjects, but she is a student who has been inspired by an experience in school and taken it to another level. Penny has accumulated 1133 House Points to date; many…
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Shop Displays Year 9 Photography
The Year 9s have delivered! Some stunning photography created by two of our groups is now hanging resplendent on the walls of Brampton Farm Shop. Please go in and have a look when you’re in town – it really does look great, and Linda (the owner) was so pleased to have her walls brightened in…
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Green for Mental Health Awareness
Last Friday, the Sixth Form all dressed in green to support Mental Health Awareness Week. To raise awareness of the link between movement and mental health, students were invited to take part in a step challenge, from Monday to Thursday). Well done to Fern Miller who won in Year 13 with 38,187 steps; and Rufus…
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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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Headteacher’s Award for Highly-Motivated Languages Student
Iona Elder was presented with this week’s Headteacher’s Award for her outstanding attitude in trying to better herself. Recently, Iona asked her Spanish teacher if she could sit the Higher paper rather than Foundation, as she’d decided she may want to pursue the language at A Level. Iona completed multiple papers in her own time…
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Multi-Sports Joy
Following on from their success earlier in the year at a North Cumbria Multi-Sports event, our Year 8 team were invited to the Active Cumbria and Panathlon County Finals at Penrith Leisure Centre yesterday. They had a wonderful afternoon competing against five other secondary schools from around Cumbria. Each team rotated around six different activities…
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