Today was the planning day for the YST Inclusive Sports Leadership Day that we are hosting at William Howard School on Friday, 7th February, with schools from around Cumbria attending. Rachael Mackenzie, athlete mentor for the Youth Sports Trust and former World Champion Thai boxer, visited WHS to meet with Mrs Croucher (our PE Inclusion Lead),…
DetailsTo celebrate ‘Pi Day’ last week – 14th March or 3.14 in the American date format – William Howard sent two teams of Year 8 students to take part in Cumbria Education Trust’s Maths Challenge at Queen Katherine School in Kendal. Eleven teams from five secondary schools tackled six rounds of challenging maths problems, including…
DetailsOn the last Friday before half term our A Level Philosophers joined students from Trinity and QEGS for the fifth annual A Level Religious Studies and Philosophy conference at Carlisle Cathedral. They were joined by staff from across all three schools, John Forster from Lancaster University and Cannon Benjamin Carter who taught Philosophy at Bristol University…
DetailsThis is the third year running that Mr Connolly has organised an A Level Philosophy conference with Carlisle Cathedral, and this year William Howard School Philosophy students were joined by staff and students from Trinity School and John Foster who works with the Philosophy Department of Lancaster University. It was a tremendous success and allowed our…
DetailsThis is the fourth year running that Mr Connolly has organised an A Level Philosophy conference with Carlisle Cathedral, and this year William Howard School Philosophy students were joined by staff and students from Trinity School and John Foster who works with the Philosophy Department of Lancaster University. It was a tremendous success and allowed our…
DetailsMrs Booker and Mr Connolly were thrilled to welcome Joe Human and members of CDEC’s (Cumbria Development Education Centre) staff and trustees to work with the Year 12 Philosophers on Thursday, 10 July. Joe delivered his amazing talk, ‘The Health Hazards of Climate Change’, which has been developed out of his extensive research and a…
DetailsMatt Rayson, Head Chef and Business owner of The Old Bank Restaurant in Carlisle visited the Year 11 Food and Nutrition class today. He demoed some presentation and plating up techniques to help the students with their Non-Exam Assessment (NEA) tasks next term. Their teacher, Mrs Mothersdale said, “The students really benefitted from his advice…
DetailsWe are absolutely thrilled for ex-William Howard School student, Anna Nicholson, who won a bronze medal on Thursday at the Paralympics in Paris. Anna secured her medal in the women’s F35 shot put with a brilliant throw of 9.44m. The F35 classification is for athletes who have coordination impairments such as hypertonia, ataxia, and athetosis…
DetailsOur students had another chance to enjoy the fabulous WHS staff panto extravaganza, during break 2 today. The hall was packed for the live show on the final day of last term, so today’s screening gave students who missed out a further opportunity to experience the hilarity of Ms Ledger’s production of Cinderella. Year 12…
DetailsThere was some flippin’ good fun during break time on Shrove Tuesday, when the Sixth Form Leadership students challenged our Senior Leadership Team to a pancake race. Windy conditions made the pancake tossing very tricky, but the race ‘panned’ out to a victory for the staff team. Well done to everyone who took part with…
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