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Back to School: Affordable school essentials – our top picks
29th August 2022As the summer draws to a close, you may find yourselves dreading the annual uniform and schoolwear shop. With growing children and prices rising, the costs associated quickly grow. At Wensleydale School, we don’t believe parents should pay over the odds when buying school basics. With the cost of living crisis continuing to squeeze our […]

GCSE Results Day 2022
25th August 2022We are incredibly proud of our Year 11 students who are the first cohort to take externally-graded exams in two years, following the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite their Year 10 studies being significantly disrupted, we are able to say that every single student sat their exams this year, and that is important […]

Summer bakes
19th August 2022Today’s Wensleydale School Blog We love sharing recipes with our students as baking can be a great at-home activity to do alone (always with a guardian present, though!) or with friends. In spirit of it being the summer holidays, we wanted to draw your attention to the BBC GoodFood’s ‘Summer Bakes’ page, which has loads […]

Making the most of the Yorkshire Dales
10th August 2022In our last post, we gave some advice about dealing with worry and stress in the gap between exams and results day. One of tips was to stay busy and taking advantage of the Yorkshire Dales’ beautiful scenery is a great distraction. Here are three ways to get outside and enjoy the local area: Go […]

The lead up to results day
5th August 2022Now that it’s summer and we’re less than a month away from results day, there can be a lot of anxiety and anticipation in the air. Of course, the holidays are for rest – but it can be hard to wind down when you might be feeling nervous about your grades. So, we thought we’d […]

Ofsted commends our enrichment programme
27th July 2022As you may have seen on our social media sites, The Wensleydale School recently received a ‘Good’ grading succeeding its recent Ofsted inspection. We’re thrilled with this result and wanted to share a more in-depth look into what the inspectors had to say about the school we’re so proud of – starting with our extracurricular […]