Sixth Form students in Years 12 and 13 took part in trials today for their upcoming derby. The ‘Managers’ of both teams were delighted with the high turnout and now have the difficult task of creating their teams. There will be a press conference from the teams prior to the game and this will be…
DetailsWe are exceptionally impressed by the resilience that students Lewis and Matthew Tate have shown recently. Last weekend they scaled Blencathra to raise funds for a new football kit for Lewis’ team, Warwick Wanderers. However, this positive initiative was prompted by a deeply sad reason they had for climbing the fell. Their aptly proud mum,…
DetailsThere were 111 entries for the recent Save the Earth bookmark competition, organised by the Library and supported by the English department, and the judges had a very difficult task to pick out the best ones from an array of wonderful designs. The overall winner, with a beautiful design featuring a polar bear, was Noah…
DetailsAs part of their first unit on local History, our Year 7 students have been investigating two conflicting interpretations of the Border Reivers. Many Cumbrians can trace their own origins to the Reivers and we have been exploring how historians have remembered them as either scoundrels or loveable rogues. 7X1 studied a high-level text and…
DetailsOur annual Bookbuzz is back, and Year 7 students are getting excited about reading! Each one of them will receive a free book to keep and to enjoy. After watching a video with fun 30-second author pitches, to give them a little taste of what the books are about, Year 7 students visited the Library…
DetailsWHS is delighted to be one of over 1,200 secondary schools taking part in Bookbuzz, a nationwide reading programme that helps create excitement about books and supports a whole-school reading culture. Supported by BookTrust, the UK’s biggest reading charity, Bookbuzz gives every new student the chance to choose a book to keep, chosen from 16…
DetailsOur Services Families students enjoyed a day learning bushcraft skills on Wednesday, building on the camaraderie and teamwork that was established last month during their raft building day. Experienced instructor, Des Bradder, come in to teach them various survival skills including 4 elements of bushcraft: cord, cutting, canvas, and container. They discovered what do you…
DetailsOur Boccia team, along with five Sports Leaders, headed to Penrith Leisure Centre on Friday 9th May, for the long-awaited County Boccia Finals. The Leisure Centre was buzzing with activity when they arrived with both primary and secondary school students from around the whole county warming up in readiness. The primary and secondary school competitions…
DetailsIt was a real delight to welcome members of the Penrith Over 65 Club into school on Friday, to play a friendly round of boccia with our students. The warmth shown between the generations certainly took the chill off the airy Sports Hall! The event came about after Mr Green (Curriculum Lead for PE) heard…
DetailsStudents were ‘tweated’ to a special hands-on experience on Thursday when Siobahn from Pet Encounter Cumbria brought along some fantastic feathery friends. The antics of Toffee the macaw and Harry the African parrot were captivating, leaving students (and Mrs Booker) wide-eyed with wonder!
