News

On Tuesday 28 November, the Food & Nutrition Department held the Year 9 Masterchef Competition.  We had pupils representing all the Houses making some very tasty dishes. 

Last week, we had a Kindness Workshop from the charity 52 Lives (www.52-lives.org) and their School of Kindness!

Over the past week, our students have taken part in two Table Tennis Tournaments.

We are currently reading The Witches at Book Club and our Year 7 students are really enjoying it.

On Tuesday 31 October, a group of our Year 11 students attended “The Skills for Success” day on their Gateways visit to the University of Manchester.

On Tuesday this week, the Food & Nutrition Department held the Seniors Interhouse Masterchef Competition. We had a full complement of entries from Years 10, 11, 12 and 13, making for a very busy and exciting atmosphere in the food room.

Our KS4 Indoor Cricket team played The Dean Trust on Tuesday.  The game, as always, was frenetic with the ball flying around all over the place.  Everyone had their turn to bat and bowl.

Ahead of our upcoming road closure days on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 November 2023, where roads leading up to WHGS (Spring Bridge Road, Waltham Road, Highbury Road and Gildridge Road) will be closed to motor vehicles between 8.00am-9.00am and 2.30pm-3:30pm, new banners have now been displayed reminding parents, carers, staff and our local residents to switch off their engines whilst waiting outside WHGS.

The month of October was a great one for WHGS, as different activities took place across the whole school for Black History Month.  

On Friday 20 October, GCSE Music students, alongside deserving Year 9 musicians, went to listen to the Hallé Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. Entitled, the 'Orchestra through the Ages', students learnt about the  Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century orchestra and heard pieces from all these eras.

On Tuesday 10 October, we welcomed friends from Henshaws who were serenaded by Yousef, a Year 11 GCSE Music student on the piano, as well as Year 12 L3 BTEC Performance students.

On Monday 9 October, our Resourced Provision Centre students hosted a Coffee Afternoon for their parents and carers. 

On Tuesday 17 October, we took three teams to compete in the Manchester Schools PE Association Boccia Competition.

The annual Paper Aeroplane House Competition was held on Thursday 19 October. Over fifty staff and students turned out for their Houses to see who could fly their paper aeroplanes the furthest.

On Thursday 19 October, the Year 12 boys played the Year 13 boys at football.

The afternoon air was fresh, as summer descended into autumn, the sun setting over the Donner building, bringing a chill to the immense crowd that had gathered at the WHGS arena, in anticipation of the gladiatorial game that was about to begin.

On Friday 13 October, Sixth Form students from across our History and Politics courses attended a Conference hosted by the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) and the University of Manchester.

It was fantastic to see so many children having fun and taking part in 'Break the Rules Day' in the Primary Phase on Friday.

Over three days (Monday 9 October to Wednesday 11 October), our Year 11 Geography students took their GCSE field trip to Blackpool to study the impacts of tourism and coastal engineering in the area.

In the Summer of 2023, we reached the Final of the Manchester Schools Year 10 Cricket Tournament.  To get to the finals, the team played some great cricket and we beat the likes of Cedar Mount, St Bedes, Abraham Moss and Parrswood. 

Year 10 and 11 students attended the Manchester Inspire Indoor Athletics on Friday 6 October at SportsCity.