Conscientious Year 10 student, Max Foster was chosen to receive the Headteacher’s Award this week. Max has shown the utmost resilience recovering and returning to school following a serious sporting injury. He has displayed the highest level of academic excellence and is consistently achieving outstanding results in his GCSE subjects. Max is focused and hard…
DetailsThe WHS table cricket team travelled to Durham University to compete in the Lord’s Tavener’s North-East Regional Table Cricket Finals on Thursday 18th April. To make it this far, the teams attending had had to do well both at their local competition and then at the county competition. Now there were just six teams competing…
DetailsOur Year 10 boys football team played the first of their two semi-finals on Tuesday. Playing a very good team from Cockermouth, the boys started slowly and conceded first going into half time 1-0 down. After some reflection at half time, they came out and scored in the first minutes of the 2nd half, with…
Details51 of our musicians had an incredible trip to Spain during the first week of the Easter holidays. As well as giving fantastic performances at Poble Espanol and Loret de Mar, their packed itinerary included visits to Barcelona (Las Ramblas and La Boqueria Market), a visit to the beautiful medieval walled town of Girona and…
DetailsBella Judd is the deserving recipient of this week’s Headteacher’s Award. Bella is always punctual, polite, willing to put herself forward for all opportunities and is a wonderful role model to younger students in school. Bella has amassed 939 achievement points this year – with these being regularly awarded for Learner of the Lesson, going out of her…
DetailsWe extended National Careers Week in March to cover the entire month! Here’s a summary of our recent celebration of careers guidance: A Year 9 careers event was held to support the students’ GCSE option process. A representative from Oxford University came along to talk to Year 10 and 12 students about how to apply…
DetailsThis year, Mr Davis and Mr Connolly have been overwhelmed by the number of students who have wanted to come along and play chess each week. Mr Connolly said, “There have been so many that we have been able to launch a Chess Cup for the first time and over the last few weeks students…
DetailsOur Student Leadership Team have been amazing this term. They have supported with parents evenings and fundraising, including the brilliant karaoke for Comic Relief. In addition, the Student Heads of House contribute to assemblies each week and work with the House Council groups. Today, our Head Students, Ellie Wilson and Angus Loughrey, presented the team…
DetailsTie It Up Theatre came along to school this afternoon to perform the powerful play, ‘I Love You, Mum – I Promise I Won’t Die’ to Year 9 students. The hard-hitting piece of verbatim theatre was written by acclaimed playwright Mark Wheeller and tells the story of Daniel Spargo-Mabbs who tragically died at the age…
DetailsAn extraordinary amount of ingenuity, research and effort was on display in Miss Nicholls’ Year 7 History classes this week. The groups have spent the past month planning and preparing for their presentations on the development of Norman castles and now they had the chance to show off their finished projects. Miss Nicholls said, “The…
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