Thank you to everyone who supported the fundraising raffle, bake sale and coffee morning on Friday, 4th April for our Open Spaces group. Over £100 was raised every penny makes a real difference to our students. We fully appreciate the wonderful support from the community – including Mr Brown’s, The Capon Tree, Off the Wall, Moo…
DetailsOur ever-productive Open Spaces team, led by Mrs Booker, hosted a Christmas Fair this morning, filled with festive activities and stalls offering wonderful Christmas gift ideas. The fair was open to all staff and students during break time, with Year 7 students also enjoying their own viewing during first or second lesson. Santa made a…
DetailsCarolin and Natasha from Cumbria in Bloom visited school today to deliver some blooming good news! We are absolutely thrilled that Ms Booker and her eager Open Spaces Team have been awarded a Gold Medal and named Winner in the Secondary School category at this year’s Cumbria in Bloom Awards. The judges awarded 97 marks…
DetailsA huge thank you to all the families who came along to our interactive Open Evening last night. It was a very busy evening, so we hope you were able to visit as many departments as possible and get a sense of what our students experience and learn at WHS. Ms Pigdon, Headteacher said: “The…
DetailsWe are incredibly excited for one of our Sixth Form students, Oliver Wightman, who has recently been selected to play Wheelchair Rugby with Team GB. Over the last 8 months, Oliver has been on a Tier 1 GB development plan and has been playing wheelchair rugby, for which he has shown great natural ability. He…
DetailsOur Student Leadership Team did a wonderful job of dressing our Christmas trees this morning, with baubles and tinsel reflecting our House colours. One tree adorns our Foyer and the other will provide a beautiful background for our up-coming Celebration Assemblies in the Performance Hall. A huge thank you to T.G Norman Timber Ltd of…
DetailsIt’s that time of year when our A Level Chemistry students have some festive fun creating a colourful ‘Chemistree’ from solution filled glassware. They produced an array of coloured solutions using acids, alkalis and indicators, then carefully positioned the flasks on the stand using clamps and bosses.
Following on from their county final success, our Boccia team (Andrew Kyle, Samuel Kileen-McGuirk and Emily Kennon) got to test out their skills again on Wednesday at the Panathlon, North-West Regional Secondary Boccia Finals at Greenbank Sports Academy in Liverpool. The huge sports hall was already full of teams playing warm up games when we…
DetailsThere were a few nerves this morning when our table cricket team headed off to Carlisle College for their first competition of the year, with 15 schools attending from all over the North of Cumbria. Following on from their success last year, reaching the National Finals, they were worried about living up to their earlier…
DetailsAn excited table cricket team headed to Carlilse College to compete in the Lord’s Taverners North Cumbria Schools Table Cricket Competition on Wednesday 13th March. The competition grows each year and this time there were 13 teams from across the North of Cumbria fighting for a place in the county finals this coming Friday. The…
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