Over the Christmas break, Year 9 student Benji represented the Independent Schools’ FA U14 England team in their winter training camp.

Over the Christmas break, Year 9 student Benji represented the Independent Schools’ FA U14 England team in their winter training camp.
Last week we held the House Cross-Country competitions at the Senior School, arguably one of the biggest sporting occasions in the school calendar! Overall we saw some fantastic performances and the spirit and determination from our students made it a great day of competitive racing.
Congratulations to Fynlay in Year 10 after having finished a fantastic golfing season.
Last weekend William Grundy represented the North West Region at the British Triathlon Inter- Regional National Championships at Mallory Park Race Circuit, Leicestershire placing 5th!
On June 12, Caitlin (who will be continuing into Year 13 in September) competed in the Kyolis Cup, her first international individual competition hosted by France.
At the Prep School, our focus for the rest of this term is ‘fun’, and what a lot of fun we have been having!
At Westholme School we have a number of students who ride horses, both competitively and just for fun.
The School cross country races took place last week at Wilmar Lodge and there were some fantastic efforts and impressive times from everyone involved.
Not to be deterred by Covid or lockdown, Jonathan entered the English Schools Athletics Competition virtually over the summer holiday.
At the end of the Summer break Fynlay (9P) competed in the Lancashire U14 Championships held at the stunning Lancaster Golf Club.
Over the Summer Year 7 pupil Elizabeth Rimmer (7B) was selected for Tennis Nationals and competed in Nottingham over two weekends.
Congratulations to Year 9 student Will, who along with his Pony Poppy, has been selected to ride for the North of England Mounted Team Games.
We are delighted to share that former student, Will Couch, has joined Burnley Football Club’s Academy.
Well done to all those who took part in the Virtual Sports Day. It was fantastic to see so many people get involved and take on the challenges to score points for their House.
The gods of running were certainly smiling on us as the weather broke, the rain stopped, the sun weakly bathed us in its radiance- nigh on perfect running conditions for our juniors at Witton Park.
The Annual House Swimming Gala took place this week with the girls kicking off yesterday and the boys taking to the pool today.