Our Year 8 and 9 students have worked extremely hard on a Geography project. The theme of the project is ‘Remapping Our Lives During COVID’. They have used a range of geographical techniques to consider how our lives were impacted geographically during the lockdowns. This project was based on…
Year 12 are exploring waves and have, as part of their course, designed and built this wave machine. They worked closely together, each one having a specific job and lots of peer review going on during the collaborative work. Students developed skills of accurate measuring, problem solving and in the end were able to calculate…
Year 9 are studying electricity at the moment. They have been tasked with deciding which tasks for homework to do out of 25 possible ones for this half term. All tasks are based on electricity and some require students to do some independent research and organise their learning into different arrangements, for example, posters, models,…
Headteacher Mr Youngman took a group of lucky students on a tour to see how our new build is coming along. Take a look inside…
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Trust are introducing two virtual programs, to provide work related learning opportunities to students aged between 14-18. One program is focused around careers in Nursing and Midwifery. The other is centred around the wide range of Allied Health Professional careers. These programs are available for free and include a live…
The year 12 students of West Coast Sixth Form enjoyed a fantastic day at Eskdale working through a range of team building and problem solving activities. Students had to work together to complete a series of tasks to accumulate points over the course of the day. They were developing skills of communication, planning, problem solving…
All the staff at The Whitehaven Academy are very excited to be able to open their doors once more to our upcoming pupils and their parents on Tuesday 5th October for our Year 6 Open Evening. We are looking forward to meeting you all!
Health and Social Care students in year 10 this week have been exploring their use of language and effective communication skills. Students have been enthusiastic about their new GCSE subject and have impressed Mrs Bell with their levels of engagement and team work in lessons. Very well done year 10! Excellent start to the year.…
The first week in the Creative Curriculum has got off to a flying start with students in year 8 planning and creating a batch of tantalisingly tasty pizza rolls with their very own homemade tomato base pizza sauce. The students developed their own recipes and developed their knowledge of breadmaking. Their lesson was a pleasure…
Students, staff and families were celebrating record results in GCSE’s today at The Whitehaven Academy, with exceptional performances by students and the strongest results in English and Maths, the academy has seen. These results come off the back of a truly challenging year, with students facing repeated lockdowns and isolations, but never once losing focus…