CyberFirst Empower Event
On Thursday 29th February 37 Year 9 girls from The Whitehaven Academy joined 14 other schools, including CET’ s William Howard and Workington Academy at Cumbria’s first ever girls Empower…
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A couple of months ago, Mr Youngman asked Miss Skillen and Miss Pearson to think of a way for the school community to thank Mrs Gaston for her seventeen years…
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Year 8 Robotics Competition 2024
The Whitehaven Academy proudly hosted the Year 8 interschool robotics competition again this year, kindly sponsored and supported once again by Sellafield and also supported by STEM. The day was…
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EAT presents ‘A night at the movies’
Congratulations to our all of our amazing students and staff who have been working hard behind the scenes over the last few weeks to create performances for EAT presents ‘A…
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Year 9 Micro:bit Competition with the NDA
On Friday 8th December our Year 9 students took part in a science fayre style Micro:bit Competition kindly judged by a team from the NDA. All of our students in…
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The Whitehaven Academy’s CyberFirst Girls
In the month of November 20 of our Year 8 girls took part in the National Cyber Security Centre’s CyberFirst Girls competition. They showed amazing resilience in cracking a variety…
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Community, Culture And CPD: One School’s Journey To Improvement
This blog post was written by Ambition Institute. “Something that’s been really important for me as a headteacher is seeing the talent that exists within,” says Nigel Youngman, headteacher of The…
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CET’s Big Coffee Morning
Last Friday, numerous cakes, biscuits, buns and hot drinks were devoured across all of our Trust schools for CET’s Big Coffee Morning, in an effort to raise money for the…
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Silver Duke of Edinburgh Trip
Over the course of this weekend our Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award students have spent two nights navigating and camping in out beautiful countryside. “So lovely to pop and see…
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West Coast Sixth Form Students Receive Their A-Level Results
Today is about celebrating some of the incredible achievements of our young people. It is for this reason that we like to recognise the individual success stories below and congratulate all the young people on their achievements today and wish them all the very best for the future.
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