News Stories

• High School students continue to lead the way with Active Travel
  As part of a continuing focus on the benefits of Active Travel, staff and students at Withernsea High School recently enjoyed a day of incentives designed to get the school community physically active on their commute to school.
• Coastal exploration for Geography students
  Blessed with blue skies and sunshine, around fifty Year 10 Geography students recently visited Mappleton and Hornsea to explore the coastline and collect data for their continuing studies in preparation for next summer’s GCSE exam.
• Cup final success for Withernsea High’s U14 Girls’ Football Team.  
  On Monday, 17th June, Withernsea High School’s U14 (Year 8 and 9) Girls’ Football team travelled to Hull’s St Mary’s College to represent the school in the U14 Humberside Small Schools Cup.
• School community celebrates power of ‘togetherness’ in the fight against cancer
  Staff and students at Withernsea High School have been praised for their determination and compassion after collectively helping to raise over £3,000 for a cancer support charity.
• Students commemorate D-Day
  Last Thursday, June 6, students at Withernsea High School were given time to reflect upon the bravery and sacrifice of those involved in the Normandy Landings eighty-years ago.
• Creative Arts Summer Showcase
  Following the success of last year’s debut event, the Creative Arts faculty are staging their second Summer Showcase at Middleton Hall, Hull University, on Friday 21st June.
• National competition success for WHS student
  A Year 11 student is celebrating after helping her detachment achieve first place for ‘Drill and Inspection’ at the Sea Cadets’ National Drill and Piping Competition, held recently at HMS Raleigh.
• Mental Health Awareness Week
  At Withernsea High School, this year's Mental Health Awareness Week was marked with an assembly for students in Years 7 to 10 – led by a representative of the East Riding Mental Health Support Team.
• Year 10 Engineering
  Year 10 students have been working on garden-themed projects in Engineering this term. Firstly, making a bird box and then a gardening trowel. 
• Board for Change Update: Active Travel Ambassadors oversee bike shelter improvements
  After consulting students across the school, our ATA's found that a number of their peers were opting out of travelling to school on a bike or a scooter due to lack of suitable parking space for scooters and worries over bike security.