On Thursday 2nd February Mr Hudson, Headteacher, congratulated Ellie Lord (7O) for exceeding her target grades for the second data collection running! In the latest data collection for Year 7 pupils in January, Ellie met her attainment targets in an amazing 9 out of 12 subjects – the most in the whole year! Keep it up Ellie – you now have even more ambitious targets to work towards!

Well done!

The January Data Collection for Year 10 students identified the top ten students for Outstanding Effort as Holly Abnett, Macauley Evans, Elsie Hargate, Lauren Hayes, Emma Hays, Cameron Hudson, Charlotte Jones, Sarah Kaye, Ryan Lee, Chelsea Miller, Charlotte Sanders, Megan Skipworth, Sadie Smith, Stacey Speight, Weronika Szubrych and Rebecca Thorp.

They should be particularly proud as all 16 students were joint first achieving effort grades of ‘excellent’ in every subject.

Congratulations to you all – a fantastic performance!

The January Data Collection for Year 7 students identified the top ten students for Outstanding Effort as Floyd Askin, Bryony Davies, Alice Ogden, Rhianna Ogden, Rebecca Smith, Stephanie Swann, Henry Swift, Ebony Wilkinson, Jessica Garner, Megan Glover, Bryony Hunt, Daisy Martin, Brittany Myers, Arron Rose, Abby Roughley, Emma Scholey, Nicola Slater, Tom Slater, Olivia Spencer, Nathan Stewart and Jade Wilde.

Floyd Askin, Bryony Davies, Alice Ogden, Rhianna Ogden, Rebecca Smith, Stephanie Swann, Henry Swift and Ebony Wilkinson should be particularly proud as they were joint first achieving effort grades of ‘excellent’ in every subject.

Congratulations to you all – a fantastic performance!

Year 11 pupils have been creating their own ideas for a TV crime show! This is their exam subject and they have split into groups to produce a pitch for a show that will be shown between 9 and 10pm on ITV.

To help them get into role all pupils and Mrs Moffatt have police-style moustaches!

Pupils have created characters, episodes and an advert to market their ideas. They have used media codes and conventions that would typically be found in a crime drama, however, they have also tried to have a unique selling point and target audience.

Here are some of the programme names:
Behind the Eyes
Sirens
Run the Line
Discovery
After Dark
DI Stained
Written in Blood
The Mean Streets
Wight Lies
Suburban Murders
What Lies Beneath

[Show as slideshow]

The January Data Collection for Year 11 students identified the top ten students for Outstanding Effort as Louis Bailey, Georgia Barker, Natalie Barnes, Paige Baxter, Francesca Bird, Aaron Dean, Ashleigh Hartshorne, Joshua Hinds, Emma Holman, Caitlain Horan, Daniel Mackley, Grant Parkin, Kathryn Pearce, Samantha Pearce, Katie Rodgers, Laura Schofield, Amaal Sharif and Amy Shutt.

They should be particularly proud as all 18 students were joint first achieving effort grades of ‘excellent’ in every subject.

Congratulations to you all – a fantastic performance!

Click here to read the HMI Ofsted report

Wombwell High School was placed in Special Measures in October 2010 and we had 3 monitoring
visits from Her Majesty’s Inspectors: (1-2 February 2011, 18-19 May 2011, 5-6 October 2011).
One would expect 5 or 6 visits before they would consider removal from Special Measures, but we
were judged to have made “Good” progress in all categories at the October visit (the best a school
can do) and we were hopeful that the 4th visit, this visit, would see our school out of Special
Measures and looking forward to the move into the new ALC from a position of confidence and
strength. I am pleased to say that HMI agreed and concluded that Wombwell High School is now
good enough to be removed from Special Measures and this they confirmed, officially, on 25th January 2012.

In October 2010 our school deserved to be placed in Special Measures and we now richly deserve
to no longer be in that category. We have achieved this tremendous improvement in record time
and everybody involved has every right to feel proud of our progress and success. No stars, just a
superb team – parents, students and staff. Whatever we have done we have done together and it
has been a privilege to be a part of the whole venture.

‘Brittany Myers 7M has received a trophy for being Barnsley Champs taekwondo ‘student of the year’.

Brittany’s brother got her interested in Taekwondo, introducing her to Barnsley Champs Taekwondo who train at the Birdwell Community Centre and Jump Primary School.  Each session is for one hour and thirty minutes and the Instructor is qualified to Master Level. Taekwondo  combines combat techniques, self-defense, sport, and exercise and Brittany has done really well to become Student of the Year. What a wonderful achievement, we are really proud of her’.

History have been running a competition in year 7 to see who produced the best project on Pompeii! Winners listed below.

Alice Ogden
Jade Wilde
Rebecca Smith
Henry Swift
Lewis Gelder

Congratulations to the 41 Year 11 students who achieved 100% Attendance in Term 1  2011-12 (September to Christmas).

Louis Bailey, Georgia Barker, Gareth Baxter, Paige Baxter, Daniel Colville, Hannah Crookes, Aaron Depledge, Aaron Dey, Tore Espaas, Joshua Finlay, Luke Firth, Olivia Freeman, Zak Green, Bradley Guest, Ashleigh Hartshorne, Laura Hawkswotrth, Joshua Hepworth, Joshua Hinds, Ellie Holdsworth, Emma Holman, Caitlain Horan, Jordan Ibbotson, Beth Johnson, Marcus Law, Daniel Mackley, Nicole Norton, Grant Parkin, Luke Platts, Fraser Price, Megan Roberts, Bethany Rowson, Laura Schofield, Amy Shutt, Adam Speight, Laurel Tadajewski, Jonathan Thorpe, Abigail Todd, Simon Todd, Ryan Walker, Jessica Whiting and Alex Woodward.

What a fantastic performance! These students are giving themselves the best possible chance to achieve and beat their targets.

High Expectations