News Stories

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 - Latest Updates
  It's been a busy few weeks for the members of our student-led Board for Change. Work has included bike shed improvements, a mountain biking trip to Dalby Forest and peer-to-peer support for students accessing exercise opportunities.
• 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.
• Board for Change Update: Active Humber Ambassadors support girls accessing exercise
  The Active Humber ambassadors recently met with the new cohort of girls attending this year’s Girls’ Carousel of physical activity.
• Board for Change Update: School Ambassadors enjoy a day at Dalby Forest.
  Twelve of our Board for Change members recently enjoyed a day of mountain biking in Dalby Forest.
• 100% attendance celebrated
  Students at Withernsea High School are continuing to benefit from a number of incentives designed to recognise and reward strong attendance.  
• ‘We will run this together’ – staff and students take on 10k challenges for cancer support
  Taking inspiration from a friend and colleague who continues to benefit from the support of a prominent cancer care charity, a number of staff are gearing up to run next month’s Hull 10k in a show of solidarity for all those who are dealing with cancer.