William Howard School

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street = Longtown Road
city = Brampton
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postcode = CA8 1AR
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The William Howard School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school on "Longtown Road" (A6071) in Brampton, Cumbria, England for pupils aged 11-18.

The School Today

Currently, the school has approximately 1500 students and serves the town and the surrounding rural area.

William Howard School is a formal education school and was awarded Specialist Science status in 2004 and Leading Edge status in 2005.Fact|date=August 2008 The school has moderately well equipped and up to date facilities in every department, as well as modern science laboratories, computer rooms, and a Learning Resources Center. It has a gym and a full size floodlit all weather pitch. The school is inward looking and is very proud of its links with a partner school in Tanzania. It was awarded the [http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/isa International School Award] in 2007.

It retained its own Sixth Form Centre after some argument over a merge with a larger, engrossing Carlisle Sixth Form Center. After school hours, the school serves center for adult education, theatrical and music performances, clubs and community meetings. The large open foyer frequently served as a gallery space for local artists.

The school is also host to Brampton Live every summer, an ever growing music festival that has, since its first appearance in 1995, become the largest roots/world music festival in the north of England.Fact|date=August 2008 Major artists in previous years have included The Levellers, The Waterboys, Egudo Embako, Richard Thompson, Suzanne Vega, Loudan Wainwright III, Altan, Tommy Emmanuel, The Bills and more.

Tanzanian Link

Founded in 1989, the William Howard School - Uru Secondary School link has been, and continues to be, a great asset to both the Uru and Brampton communities.Fact|date=August 2008

The rural village of Uru is located in the Moshi district of Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. About 8 miles from Moshi, the village itself is on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The Uru Secondary School is a co-ed church school with about 400 students in Forms 1 to 4. The Link was formed in 1987 when the coordinator, Phil Furneaux, met the Chair of Uru School Governors at an Energy Conference in Cumbria. At first WHS sent textbooks and other gifts to Uru. The first exchange took place in 1989 when a group of 13 students from WHS went to Uru. Since then there has been an exchange visit each way every other year except in 2002 when the visit was postponed due to a terrorist threat.

A few Uru students come to study in the sixth form at WHS on long term visits, and a number of WHS students go to teach English at Uru School during their gap years.

Sport

The school regularly competes at local level within Cumbria and has a history of schoolboy level FA Cup runs. Facillities include a fitness suite and also an astroturf pitch.

On the astroturf is run Carlisle and Brampton Six a Side League. There are currently 39 teams playing in 5 divisions. Fixtures are generally played on astroturf on Tuesdays and Friday nights.In the 3 Tuesday leagues the two lowest placed teams are relegated to the devision below. The two highest placed teams are promoted. Teams play each other 3 times in a season.

History

The school is named after Lord William Howard (1563–1640), who was the third son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk. He married Elizabeth, the daughter and co-heiress of William Lord Dacres, from whom the Carlisle branch of the Howard Family is descended.

The school used to be known as the Irthing Valley Secondary Modern School. It merged with another school in Brampton called the White House Grammar School situated on "Main Street", in 1980 when comprehensive education replaced the selective education system. The newsreader Anna Ford was a head girl of White House Grammar School in 1961.

Young Enterprise

The school has been a strong supporter of the Young Enterprise charity. It teaches young people about business through practical methods. Students have to set up their own company, create a product, and sell it. They also have to write a detailed report of the company, as well as set up two trade stands in Carlisle, and present their findings to a panel of judges at Carlisle Racecourse in March. If the company is successful, they could eventually compete against companies from around Europe.

The 2007/2008 Young Enterprise team that was entered was called [http://www.klangonline.co.uk KLANG] . They won the award for the best presentation at the North West finals evening, at the Carlisle Racecourse on 19 March 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.williamhoward.cumbria.sch.uk Home page]
* [http://www.bramptonlive.net Brampton Live Festival website]