Wellbeing Wreath Workshop
This week staff from Wickersley have attended a Wellbeing Wreath workshop where they made some beautiful, creative, and festive wreaths. The staff rose to the challenge and supported others.
CyberFirst Girls Competition
A first for Wickersley as a team of four Y8 girls have recently competed in the qualifying round of the CyberFirst Girls competition, which is the National Cyber Security Centre’s flagship cyber contest. They tackled an impressive range of online challenges in the fields of logic and coding, networking, cyber security, cryptography, and special technologies. […]
Wickersley Bronze Pastoral Award
Well done to all Y11 students achieving their bronze pastoral award.
A Very Successful Weekend
Well done to Hayley who took part in round one of the National Women’s wheelchair Basketball tournament at Worcester University Arena on Saturday and Sunday. Her team won 3 out of 4 of her Division 2 games and she also played up to Division 1, on the whole, a very successful weekend.
PE Paralympic Drop Down Week
KS3/KS4 students recently took part in a Paralympic Sports Week in PE. The Paralympic Games focus on values of courage, determination, inspiration, and above all, equality which was the aim for pupils to take away from the experience. The very first Paralympic Games, held in 1960 in Rome, were primarily for athletes in wheelchairs, today, […]
WPT Christmas Card Competition 2022 – Shortlist Revealed!
Over the past few weeks, students from across all of our schools have been getting creative in our fourth annual WPT Christmas Card competition. Students had to draw or design a Christmas card to be in with a chance of winning a prize, and their design being featured on professionally printed cards that will be […]
Y10 North Star STEM Event
Recently Y10 students attended the North Star STEM event at Gulliver’s Valley. In preparation for this day, students attended workshops in school with staff from AESSEAL where they learnt the skills needed to teach others at the big event in terms of learning how to build and undo mechanical seals. They also learnt about careers […]
WSSC Photography Club
Recently students from KS3 & KS4 attended the first photography club at Wickersley, where they explored angles, lighting, viewpoints & focus. They captured some fantastic photographs which showed lots of creativity & imagination. Well Done Wickersley Photography students!
Y11 Futures Festival
This month, Y11 Film Studies students attended the first-ever Futures Festival at the world-famous Pinewood Studios. As a working film studio, responsible for franchises such as Harry Potter, James Bond, and Mission Impossible, students had the opportunity to experience working in the film and TV industry. The day began with a Q&A with Radio 1 […]
Remembrance Day
On Friday 11th November at 11am all students took part in a minute’s silence to pay their respects to all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the two world wars and other conflicts. This act of remembrance is to mark the moment the guns fell silent on 11th November 1918 ending the First World […]
