Headteacher’s Blog

Last Friday we received news that our catering provider P&A were in financial trouble and going into liquidation. Firstly, I would like to thank parents and students for the way in which you have handled this news and coped with a somewhat tricky week of school lunches. We are delighted to say after a week […]

Over the half term holidays construction has begun in earnest on our new changing rooms. The school has worked with North Yorkshire Local Authority to submit bids for refurbishment projects  over the last few years. Finally we were given the go ahead last year that the changing rooms would be the next capital spend. The […]

#whosthebear. 2 new Business enterprises were launched this week.’ Kiss and Bake up’ and ‘Chocoholics’ are ‘pop up’ businesses and will be open later next week. Both are part of Yr13s BTEC level 3 course which requires them to run a business and evaluate its success. There are certainly some innovative marketing techniques going on. […]

This week I have been giving assemblies to all year groups about respect. Over the last few weeks we have tightened up on uniform, poor language and lateness to lessons, which are demonstrations of respect (or not) to our community and each other . A few years ago we reduced our 10 key behaviours to […]

Debating Clubs are not a new initiative – in fact many schools have had them – but sadly it seems to be a dying art.  The  focus on GCSE success and therefore the ‘extra revision’ sessions has all too often seen the demise of the extra curricular clubs including the debating club.  Time for a […]

This week we have seen a range of successes from our students. On Monday evening our school hosted the Lower Wensleydale Business Network (LWBN) meeting in our Business and Innovation centre for Post 16. Alison Laws ( Chair of the network) presented our Yr 13 Business students with Associate membership of the LWBN . This […]