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As part of our Careers Day, based around jobs in the NHS, Year 5 and Year 6 children thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Cookson First Aid this week.

Year 1 visited Chester Zoo on Wednesday 27 November. During the trip, children were immersed in their writing unit of 'Handa's Surprise'.

Year 2 enjoyed a fascinating class trip to Elizabeth Gaskell House, where they stepped back in time to explore the Victorian era.

On Tuesday 10 December, the Food & Nutrition Department held the Senior interhouse MasterChef Competition.  We had entries from Years 10, 11 and 12, making for a very busy and exciting atmosphere in the food room.

On Sunday 24 November, a group of our rugby players from Year 7 to Year 10 visited Twickenham to watch England v Japan in the Autumn International Series.

On Monday 11 November, our five Year 13 A-Level Geographers headed to Rhyd-y-Creuau in Wales’ Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park. The purpose of their five-day residential was to practise data collection methods in physical and human geography in order to collect data to use in their Non-Examined Assessments (NEAs) to contribute to their final A-Level grades. 

Our Sixth Form students have been preparing for the Young Citizen’s Bar Mock Trial since the beginning of this academic year. 

On Tuesday 5 November, Year 4 arrived to find a mysterious note in their classroom and some very important items missing! We set off to the Great Hall to investigate with nerves of steel and unreliable torches.

On Monday 4 November, thirty of our Year 11 History students were rewarded for outstanding effort, with a trip to the University of Manchester (UoM).

We recently celebrated our first Culture Day of the year, with students from all Phases embracing their heritage by wearing clothing that represented them or their culture. 

Year 4 has been busy this half term with a range of exciting, hands-on learning experiences across several subjects!

Our Year 4 pupils enjoyed an educational visit to the Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple in Manchester, as part of their Religious Education learning about the Hindu faith. The children showed incredible respect throughout the trip, engaging enthusiastically with the temple's serene atmosphere and beautiful, ornate decorations.

As part of our Design Technology unit on Food Technology, Year 5 became bakers for the half term.

As part of the Primary Phase's Forest School programme, Year 3 travelled to Delamere Forest to implement the skills they developed with Miss Doherty during this half term.

This half term, Year 2 have been exploring Plant Growth in Science. We explored what a seed is and the different parts of a seed.

Our Primary Phase Rights Respecting Ambassadors recently organised and led a successful foodbank donation initiative to support those in need within our community. Thanks to the generosity of our school families, we were able to donate enough food to provide 350 meals!

On Tuesday 8 October, we welcomed our friends from Henshaws, who were serenaded by Year 7 Djembe Drummers, our Year 9 band performing 'Billy Jean', as well as our Year 10 band performing 'You Give Love A Bad Name'.

On Friday 4 October, we had a fantastic team performance by our Year 10/11 Boys team at the Indoor Athletics Championships at Sports City. 

On Friday 20 and 27 September, a number of Key Stage 3 students represented WHGS in the Manchester Schools Cross Country event run by TeamMcr.

Students and staff at William Hulme’s Grammar School (WHGS) are celebrating as GCSE results are released.