This week on The Whitehaven Academy’s Bake Off, the bakers made their own versions of a British classic… The Bakewell Tart. Everyone performed extremely well and showed great levels of resilience and produced some creative outcomes. It was so lovely to see you rising to the challenge; you all worked independently and skilfully. Holly and…
Next week we will be holding our Learning Festival which was a huge success last year. The theme of the week is Be The Best You Can Be, with an emphasis on our core values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. At The Whitehaven Academy, we will focus on ‘Talking Together, Learning Together’ and our intention…
Our amazing Year 7 students have received first place out of 130 schools in the national Engineering Carbon Net Zero Competition run by Atkins. The students researched, built a model of their design for a carbon net zero school in Minecraft. The assessors were clearly impressed by the students’ design and invited them to…
CHEESECAKE WEEK! At Bake Off this week, our talented Year 8’s were making Cheesecakes.. and wow were they fantastic! Mr Smith and Mr Black were our two celebrity judges and they were both very impressed with the standards. The judges gave some thorough feedback and truly were in their element tasting such quality desserts. They…
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We are very excited to announce our new logo and uniform at The Whitehaven Academy.
Newsletter April – May 2021
Year 11 student shave been doing a sponsored walk in support of Blood Bikes Cumbria. They are trying to reach their target of £1000.
This week, the Bake Off team all made different coloured/flavoured pin wheel style shortbread biscuits! Every pupil demonstrated great skill and precision and really impressed everyone with their creativity. The celebrity judges this week were our very own Mr Gillson and Mr Stewart who awarded Holly and Katie third place, Isaac and Chloe second place…
Construction has begun! 27 year-8 and year-9 students started their journey to building their very own powered glider. Today students looked at how wings are designed on planes and gliders, how lift and centre of gravity are integral in the flight of a glider before constructing a prototype glider and testing them. Students improved their…