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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.

Weatherhead LRC to host our annual ‘Author Week’ event from Monday 12th – Friday 16th November. 

Weatherhead High School is one of only 25 schools, across the UK, to get through to the final stage to become a World Class School.

Weatherhead staff raise £265.72 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

‘Friends’ themed cake awarded 1st prize in ‘European Day of Languages’ cake baking competition.

Weatherhead students celebrate exceptional GCSE success with 77% of students securing the high grade pass of at least a grade 4, equivalent to grade C GCSE. A significant proportion of students secured outstanding success at the highest level grades 9-7. A total of...

Eco students from across the Wirral raising awareness of single-use plastics, why they are a problem and what we each can each do to help.

Students complete training expeditions as part of Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

Year 9 students crowned winners of the 2017 Design Ventura Awards. Winning entry to go on sale in the Design Museum.

Design Technology students selected from over 14,500 entries for Design Ventura Awards shortlist.

Senior Awards Evening on 19th October 2017 celebrated the success of our Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 students.

Weatherhead’s School Council Awarded Highly Commended for their entry into the Speaker’s School Council Awards.

Weatherhead’s 6th Form Organising Committee are hosting a spooktacular Year 7 Halloween disco on Tuesday 31st October from 6-8pm. Find out how you can be a part of it toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Weatherhead staff joined the 'World's Biggest Coffee Morning' and raised £300 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The Senior Leadership Team and Food Technology staff demonstrated their impressive baking skills with a selection of homemade cakes including a Victoria...

Weatherhead awarded NCS ‘Champion School Status’ for the third year running!

Outstanding GCSE success for Weatherhead students. In total there were 1,717 entries at GCSE – 77% of grades were A*- C/grades 9-4 and record levels of attainment were recorded in many subject areas.

Weatherhead High School celebrated excellent results for A Level students with a 42% pass rate A*-B, 72% A*-C and a 98% pass rate for all students (A*-E).

Secondary School of the Year’ and ‘Head Teacher of the Year’ 2017

Reward card scheme for GCSE revision sessions. Year 11 students were invited to take part in this year’s GCSE Revision Reward Card Scheme. Each student, that had a reward card stamped 5 times for attending GCSE revision sessions, received a chocolate treat from...

Art of Science workshop gives primary school students a taste of studying Science at secondary school.

Congratulations to the six Weatherhead gymnasts on reaching the Milano Team National Finals and securing top ten places.

On 9th March we were delighted to welcome 28 students from Belfast Model School for Girls, as part of their Sports Tour to Liverpool.

GCSE Performing Arts students perform original musical performance celebrating imaginative fiction.

Sixth former Adam and Year 9 Ellie tumbled their way to gold when they competed in the North West Tumble and Acrobatics Championships.

Executive Headteacher, Mr Dyment and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Manager, Mr Owen were delighted to attend a ceremony at St James’s Palace to receive Weatherhead High School’s Duke of Edinburgh Direct Licence certificate from the Duke of Edinburgh himself.

The National Citizen Service (NCS) have awarded Weatherhead ‘Champion School Status’.