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For four weeks of this term, a group of Year 7 students participated in after-school Japanese sessions, in a programme called Languages XP, run by the University of Manchester. 

On Tuesday 26 March, Year 6 were lucky enough to visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.

It was great to celebrate the diversity at WHGS during our WOW Culture Day on Thursday 21 March.

This term, Year 1 visited the Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple to understand why this place is sacred to Hindus.

On Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 March, Performing Arts students took to the Great Hall stage to showcase their version of 'Annie Jnr'. 

In February, ten of our Year 12 students travelled to Zambia to take part in a Sports Coaching Programme, as part of the government’s Turing scheme, which promotes international relations between schools.

For National Careers Week (4-9 March), we celebrated with a range of exciting activities to showcase the exciting world of work. Subject teachers also highlighted the career opportunities within their subject areas, so that students could get an insight into the different career paths available to them.

Last week we celebrated Literacy Week with a host of events, activities and competitions across the Primary and Secondary Phase, focusing on inspiring a love of reading.  

Both Year 4 classes have enjoyed their Forest School trips to Delamere Forest this half term. The children loved this experience and were excited to visit a new forest this year!

On Wednesday 28 February, a group of Year 9 students participated in the Gateways visit to the University of Manchester.

This week, a team of our Year 6 pupils enjoyed a special Celebration Day at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford to celebrate their completion of the Student Leadership Programme.

On Tuesday 27 February, we welcomed our friends from Henshaws, who joined us for conversation and music.

On Wednesday 7 February, we entered two boys teams into the Desmond Douglas Manchester Schools U15s Table Tennis Championship at Our Lady's High School.

On Friday 9 February, we hosted our "WOMArathoN" Challenge. We were celebrating the 40th anniversary of the formation of Women in Sport and 40 years since women were first allowed to run the marathon in the Olympics. Women in Sport was founded in 1984 and has a track record of success in securing change, based on its deep understanding of the needs and aspirations of women and girls at each life stage. Its goal is to break down gender inequalities and ensure that all sport is transformed for the benefit of every woman and girl in the UK.

On Thursday 8 February, our Year 10 Boys Football Team played Priestnall in the third round of the Greater Manchester County Schools Cup at the Platt Lane Complex in Fallowfield.

On Tuesday 6 February, one of our Year 5 pupils, Sufiyaan, took home the Runner Up prize in this year’s northern StorySLAM final, hosted by Cravenwood Primary School.

Tuesday 6 February saw our annual performance with the phenomenon that is Young Voices!

On Thursday 1 February, our Year 10 boys played Parrs Wood in the Quarter Finals of the Manchester Schools Cup at Platt Lane Complex, Fallowfield.

On Wednesday 24 January, we entered two boys and one girls team into the Desmond Douglas Manchester Schools KS3 Table Tennis Championship, held at Our Lady's High School.  It was a really enjoyable and long evening!

Our Year 12 and 13 Product Design students visited the Renew Hub recently, to see first-hand how Greater Manchester is reducing the amount of waste going to landfill, as well as understanding more about what is done in the name of sustainability.