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Students receive recognition for their original poetry at the Christopher Salmon Poetry Awards Ceremony.

This week, Year 9 students took part in a series of powerful workshops, designed around the issues affecting young people today.

We’re delighted to announce that this year’s school production of Matilda Jr. will take place on Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th and Friday 9th February 2024 and tickets are now on sale.

Sixth Form students secure place on HYPE’s New York volunteering opportunity.

Our Poet Laureate, Phoebe, has written two poems for this festive season.

Students and staff raised over £355 for a charity supporting the education of secondary-age girls from the remote villages in the High Atlas region of Morocco.

In celebration of World Music day, marked annually on 21st June, talented Weatherhead musicians are on tour, around the school, performing pop-up lunchtime gigs.

We are delighted to announce that this year’s school production will be Annie Junior and performances will take place on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th February 2023.

Year 9 student receives an honourable mention in World Class Schools essay writing competition.

End of term celebrations.

Our exciting annual Author Week event will be taking place this year from 14th – 18th November. We will be welcoming five fantastic authors whose writing is aimed at a child/teenage audience.

We’re pleased to announce some excellent achievements by our students this year in their GCSEs and BTECs.

We had great pleasure in welcoming parents and carers back to the school to join us in celebrating our KS3 Awards Evening.

Student successfully complete the ‘Expedition’ section of their Silver Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Award.

Students awarded top prizes by panel of judges in the 2022 Christopher Salmon Poetry Competition.

Students’ product designs receive recognition at awards ceremony.

Students meet with employers, employees, universities and training providers as part of our Year 10 World of Work event.

What’s on this week!

On 6th December 2021, Weatherhead received reacrediation as a World Class School at the World Class Schools Quality Mark Awards Ceremony, held at Oxford University.

Weatherhead High School has been shortlisted for the World Class School Quality Mark (WCSQM) School of the Year

Weatherhead High School  is so pleased to announce some outstanding achievements by its students this year in their GCSEs and BTECs, despite the significant disruption to their education over the last 18 months with the pandemic. 

Students unveil Black History Postbox in honour of Ignatius Sancho, composer, writer and slave abolitionist.

Beautiful and creative works of art by our GCSE Fine Art and Textiles students are available to view in our virtual art exhibition.

Here are the winners and runners-up in our final ‘Artist of the Month’ competition of the school year.

Weatherhead High School has successfully re-accredited as a World Class School. Our Year 12 team of ‘World Class Ambassadors’ have worked hard over the last 6 months to complete assessment frameworks in a number of areas to prove that they are World Class!

To celebrate International Dance Day, we put together a video showcasing dance at Weatherhead.

For our March/April Artist of the Month competition, our Art, Textiles and Photography teachers put forward work that they felt worthy of a mention.

World Class Schools held a virtual Awards Ceremony to recognise the achievements of students throughout the UK during a year of lockdown.

Students recognised for work during lockdown as part of the World Class Schools Virtual Awards Ceremony.

World Book Day is celebrated annually on 4th March in over 100 countries around the world! Read how we celebrated this year.

Our January/February Artist of the Month competition asked students to respond to the theme ‘Lockdown’.

This year we’ve had to adapt our end of terms celebrations but that hasn’t stopped us spreading cheer!

This month, students were invited to respond to the theme ‘Colour’.

As part of this year’s Anti-Bullying Week campaign, Year 7 students created beautiful classroom displays.

Year 12 student awarded the prestigious Arkwright Engineering Scholarship.

This month, students were asked to respond to the theme ‘nature magnified’.

Cake decorating competition held to celebrate European Day of Languages.

Weatherhead students have done exceptionally well in their GCSEs this year despite not being able to sit their exams due to Covid-19, with 83% of grades awarded being at least grade 4 or grade C, and we are still awaiting our BTEC results. Every student should be...

Weatherhead High School celebrate outstanding results in all qualifications today with 59% receiving the highest possible grades A*-B at A Level, Distinction*- Distinction at BTEC and A*-B at DCE; all students should be extremely proud of their achievements and the maturity and resilience they have shown in these unique and challenging circumstances.

Congratulations to the recipients of the summer term Headteacher’s Award.

We asked the Weatherhead community who their heroes were in KS3 and we had an amazing response. Meet our heroes…

Students reproduced famous artwork for June’s ‘Artist of the Month’ competition and used props to stage a photograph showing a likeness to the original artwork. See their work here…

Weatherhead Heroes, we want to hear from you!

May’s ‘Artist of the Month’ competition invited students to take photographs on the theme of ‘isolation’. See the winning photographs and the runners-up.

April’s ‘Artist of the Month’ competition was to use a toilet roll tube creatively and our students ‘rolled’ with that challenge! See the winning design and the runners up.

On Friday 6th March, the students gathered in the theatre for a special celebration assembly.

Browse the Scholastic Book Fair, located in the Learning Resource Centre, all week.

To mark this year’s National Careers Week (2nd-7th March) and International Women’s Day (8th March), we were joined by guest speakers from local government, media, healthcare, policing and engineering.

A celebration of books, reading and stories for students and staff on World Book Day.

Weatherhead’s Theatre Company to perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra alongside five Wirral schools to help raise awareness of dementia.

Talented Year 11 students to compete in national competition, after securing place in the finals with their exciting online competition entry.

All the seasonal events throughout December.

Year 7 Gifted and Talented students attended a ‘Science Behind Fireworks’ lecture, exploring the chemistry behind the colours and the physics behind the shapes, sizes and projectiles.

‘Change Starts With Us’ is the theme for this year’s Anti-Bullying Week campaign and students have been discussing how even small changes we make can make a big difference to someone.

A bitter-sweet moment as we sadly say goodbye to our Chair of Governors, Mrs Jane Owens MBE and welcome our new Chair of Governors Mrs Carol Rogers MBE.

Weatherhead staff raise £291 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

In celebration of ‘European Day of Languages’ our Modern Foreign Languages department held their annual European themed cake decorating competition.

Weatherhead students have performed extremely well in the new and more challenging GCSE qualifications with 73% of grades achieved being at least grade 4.

Weatherhead alumna and Vice President of Operations at Liverpool Football Club, Hannah Simpkins, helps celebrate our Key Stage 3 Awards Evening.

Year 7 enjoyed an action-packed day of experiments and activities as part of Weatherhead’s ‘Mad Science Day’.

Anti-Bullying Ambassadors awarded the Wellbeing badge as part of their involvement in The Diana Award Anti-Bullying Campaign, becoming the first school on the Wirral to achieve this award.

Year 8 students participated in a Public Speaking competition, presenting to a packed theatre of their peers on a topic of their choice.

Our School Council have been working hard researching and filming a news report for the BBC Young Reporter News Day 2019.

Weatherhead’s theatre transformed into Hogwarts on the evening of Wednesday 6th February for Harry Potter Book Night.

The World Class Schools Quality Mark (WCSQM) has named Weatherhead High School as one of the latest schools to have successfully completed the accreditation process and been awarded the status of World Class.