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One of our Year 11 students has been awarded the prestigious title of Deputy County Cadet of the Year for Cumbria and Lancashire, following a challenging competition held in Preston.

The competition, organised by St John Ambulance, brought together cadets from across the region to complete a series of practical and leadership-based tasks. These included a first aid scenario, an interview on St John Ambulance’s HEART values, a presentation based on GCSE coursework, and a team-building exercise.

Ava-Jane S in Year 11, entered the competition after being encouraged by youth leader and former St Benedict’s student Joshua Groggins, aiming to strengthen the voice of young people in smaller units like Whitehaven, where engagement opportunities can be limited compared to larger city-based units.

She said:

“I wanted to take part to represent Whitehaven and help improve youth involvement across Cumbria. This role gives me the chance to make a real difference and ensure our voices are heard.”

The top title of County Cadet of the Year was awarded to Arabella Grint, with Maja Szargut joining as the second deputy. Together, the trio will work throughout the year to enhance youth engagement and enjoyment within St John Ambulance across the county.

Mr Stevenson, Ava’s DT teacher commented:

“Ava has shown incredible creativity and confidence, not only in her DT coursework but also in applying those skills during the competition.”

“We are extremely proud of her achievement and the leadership qualities she has demonstrated.”

One of our Year 11 students has been awarded the prestigious title of Deputy County Cadet of the Year for Cumbria and Lancashire, following a challenging competition held in Preston.

The competition, organised by St John Ambulance, brought together cadets from across the region to complete a series of practical and leadership-based tasks. These included a first aid scenario, an interview on St John Ambulance’s HEART values, a presentation based on GCSE coursework, and a team-building exercise.

Ava-Jane S in Year 11, entered the competition after being encouraged by youth leader and former St Benedict’s student Joshua Groggins, aiming to strengthen the voice of young people in smaller units like Whitehaven, where engagement opportunities can be limited compared to larger city-based units.

She said:

“I wanted to take part to represent Whitehaven and help improve youth involvement across Cumbria. This role gives me the chance to make a real difference and ensure our voices are heard.”

The top title of County Cadet of the Year was awarded to Arabella Grint, with Maja Szargut joining as the second deputy. Together, the trio will work throughout the year to enhance youth engagement and enjoyment within St John Ambulance across the county.

Mr Stevenson, Ava’s DT teacher commented:

“Ava has shown incredible creativity and confidence, not only in her DT coursework but also in applying those skills during the competition.”

“We are extremely proud of her achievement and the leadership qualities she has demonstrated.”

Before the Christmas break, all of our students & staff took part in some charity fundraisers to raise money for their chosen charities this year.

Year 7, 8 & 9 are supporting Hospice at Home West Cumbria
Year 10 & 11 are supporting WaterAid UK

£433.60 was raised through Christmas Jumper Day by Year 7,8, & 9 

£443.53 was raised through a Cake Sale & Christmas Jumper Day by Year 10 & 11 

Well done everyone!

Scroll below for photos from the events: 

Welcome to our December  Newsletter. Below you will find a letter from Mrs Jackson, plus a round up of the news highlight from this term, as well as upcoming dates for next term. 

We hope you all have a joyful Christmas break and a Happy New Year! 

Dear Parents and Carers

As we come to the end of another successful term here at St Benedict’s , I would like to thank you for your continued support.

We began the year as usual by welcoming a large intake of new students in Year 7 and Year 12 and I am delighted with the way everyone has settled into school life.

We have had much to celebrate over the term. As always at St Benedict’s our sports teams have excelled, showing great determination and teamwork when representing the school. Our school choir has shone in local competitions and amongst our numerous extra-curricular activities we now have an active Musical Theatre Club, Drama Club and very popular Darts Club.

We are committed to offering our students a wide range of experiences and I am so impressed by the number of trips, visits, and visitors our students have experienced this term. Every day I am inspired by our students who engage wholeheartedly in the many opportunities offered to them, working diligently and representing our school with pride.

As we look ahead into 2026, I know that our dedicated staff will ensure we continue to thrive as a school, and I look forward to seeing the many things that our students will achieve in the months ahead.

Once again, thank you for all your support. 

Wishing you all a Happy and Holy Christmas

God bless,

Mrs Emma Jackson

Our Latest Student of the Week Winners

For all the winners click here

Student of the Week – 19th January 2026

Congratulations to our first Student of the Week winners for 2026! All were presented with their certificates and achievement points today. Well done everyone!
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Student of the Week – 15th December

Congratulations to our final Student of the Week winners for this term! All were presented with their certificates and achievement points today. Well done everyone!
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Student of the Week – 8th December

Congratulations to all of our latest Student of the Week winners. All were presented with their certificates and achievement points today. Well done everyone!
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Student of the Week – 1st December

Congratulations to all of our latest Student of the Week winners. All were presented with their certificates and achievement points today. Well done everyone!
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Student of the Week – 24th November

Congratulations to all of our latest Student of the Week winners. All were presented with their certificates and achievement points today from Mrs Jackson.
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Student of the Week – 17th November

Congratulations to all of our latest Student of the Week winners. All were presented with their certificates and achievement points today from Mrs Jackson.
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Important Upcoming Dates

30Jan

WOW Day (Year 9)

8:30 am - 3:30 pm
12Feb

Sixth Form Open Evening

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
16Feb

Half Term Week

8:30 am - 3:30 pm
26Mar

Year 7 Parents’ Evening

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

All this week we have been holding our Christmas Achievement Assemblies for each Year Group, awarding students who have impressed their Tutors, Learning Mentors and Head of Years this term.

Prizes have also been given our for Student of the Week raffles, Zero Hero rewards, and we also recognised all of our students who have had 100% Attendance this term! Well done everyone. 

Year 7 Achievement Assembly

Gallery of all our Christmas Award winners, scroll across to view:

Year 8 Achievement Assembly

Gallery of all our Christmas Award Winners:

Year 9 Achievement Assembly

Gallery of all our winners for Year 9 with a special guest – can you guess who it is? Scroll through to see them all: 

Year 10 Achievement Assembly

Some of our Year 10 winners for subject awards, Tutor Heroes, Head of Year Awards and Attendance. Scroll across to see all the photos: 

Year 11 Achievement Assembly

Some of our Year 11 winners for subject awards, Tutor Heroes, Head of Year Awards and Attendance. Scroll across to see all the photos: 

Sixth Form Achievement Assembly

This was postponed and didn’t take place until January 2026! We would like to congratulate all of our Sixth Form students.

Scroll across to see all the photos: 

Once again, we have been fortunate to participate in the Lessons from Auschwitz programme, delivered by the Holocaust Education Trust. The purpose of the programme is to increase awareness of the Holocaust and its relevance for today. Students learn about the role of camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau and learn about some of the individuals whose lives were affected by the Holocaust. 
 
Four students were chosen to represent St. Benedict’s: Alicia S, Corey D, Keisha P and Isabella R. To prepare for their visit, the students travelled to Newcastle to attend a seminar with the educators from the Holocaust Education Trust and to meet their fellow students from a range of northern schools. On Tuesday 18th November, our students flew out to Poland and spent the day visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau. Our students then participated in a follow-up seminar to discuss what they had seen. Alicia, Corey, Keisha and Isabella are currently planning their Next Steps project  which is an opportunity for them to share what they have learned and experienced with our school and wider community.
 
Miss Coan said:
 
“We are very proud of how Alicia, Corey, Keisha and Isabella represented our school and how they have engaged with the programme.”
 
Scroll below for some photos from their experience: 
Our Year 10 Computer Science students have recently taken part in the national Bebras Challenge and got their scores back this week, and were presented with their certificates.

The Bebras Challenge introduces computational thinking to students worldwide. Each participant has 45 minutes to tackle a series of interactive tasks, designed to encourage logical thinking and problem-solving skills.

A special shoutout to Matthew who scored in the top 10% nationally achieving the Gold Award!
 
All the students who took part (pictured below) were Matthew S, Jack H, Clarence Pena, James K, Riley B, Bradley T, Tylar A, Hannah J, Lucas Frears, Mason S, Israel T, Jacob S 

On Wednesday, our U13 girls represented the school brilliantly at the Copeland and Allerdale Football Festival.

Although they didn’t come away with an overall win, their determination and teamwork were outstanding throughout the tournament, making them fantastic ambassadors for the school.
Facing tough competition against Netherhall School, Keswick School, and West Lakes Academy, the girls showed resilience and spirit. By the end of the tournament, they hit their stride and secured a well-deserved 1-0 victory over Workington Academy.

The winning goal came from Poppy, who powered through the defence and struck a superb shot into the net. 

Well done to our Year 9 boys, who came through a really tough game against Nelson Thomlinson to win 2-0.

The team were on top throughout the first half but were unable to get the goal to go ahead. With the wind behind them in the second half they were able make the pressure pay.
Rhys C finally broke early into the half. Shortly after Harry K added a second to put the game out of sight.

Joel Mc was Man of the Match for putting in a brilliant battling performance in the midfield and constantly running.

Mr Hughes said:

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭!”

Last week, some of our Year 10 students took part in a great outdoor session with Cumbria Youth Alliance. 

Students were looking at problem solving and working as a team to overcome being “lost in the wilderness” which included building fires in order to be able to keep warm and cook food, and also building a shelter to keep out of the elements and keep safe. 

These sessions are to help build up skills to improve their CVs and employability, and all the students really enjoyed it!

We are proud to announce that St. Benedict’s has been awarded the Bronze AI Quality Mark by the Good Future Foundation!
 
This national accreditation recognises our school’s structured, forward-thinking and responsible approach to embedding artificial intelligence across teaching, learning, and daily practice.
 
We are delighted to share that this achievement makes us the first school in Cumbria to receive this award.
 
The Bronze AI Quality Mark highlights our commitment to:
We look forward to building on this success as we continue our journey towards Silver and Gold.
 
For more information see Good Future Foundation website: Good Future Foundation
 

As part of the Enterprise strand of the Cumbrian Award, our Year 8 students are working on a Bee Bath project this term where they will develop 8 key skills:

✅Speaking
✅Listening
✅Problem Solving
✅Creativity & Innovation
✅Positivity & Self-Belief
✅Showing Leadership
✅Teamwork

Through their Personal Development lessons they are working through:

🔘Quality Experience 1: Planning to set up a business.
🔘Quality Experience 2: Market research, Manufacturing.
🔘Quality Experience 3: Advertising, sales and reflection, including logging their skills on Unifrog.

These Bee Baths will be for sale once completed to help raise funds for the adventure strand of the Cumbrian Award. These will be put on out social media pages if you would like to buy one for your garden and support the school in its fundraising! 

Below are some prototypes so far which will be developed over the next couple of weeks: 

Year 7 – Mathew SAwarded for all his hard work in the Maths sessions – Mrs Walsh

Year 7 – Harrison T Awarded for being kind and making sure ALL his peers are involved and feel welcome and loved – Mrs Jahromi

Year 7 – Ted D Awarded for being the life and soul of the Year 7 Christmas Disco and having the best dance moves – Mrs Grealish

Year 7 – Ivy L Awarded for having the best dance moves at the Year 7 Disco – Mrs Grealish


Year 8 – William M Awarded for his descriptive writing in English. He has used some excellent imagery in his dystopian setting – Mrs McKee

Year 8 – Poppy K Awarded for working really hard in her French assessment – Mrs Harris

Year 8 – Liam EAwarded for working really hard in his French assessment – Mrs Harris

Year 8 – Sadie HAwarded for being helpful in tutor time – Mrs Harris

Year 8 – Oliver C Awarded for being helpful in tutor time – Mrs Harris

Year 8 – Willow McL Awarded for being diligent & hardworking in Science – Ms Theaker

Year 8 – Olly L Awarded for being diligent & hardworking in Science – Ms Theaker

Year 8 – Ariana S Awarded for always being happy to help with class activities in RE and supporting students to complete work – Mrs Best

Year 8 – Jensen KAwarded for his excellent attitude in RE – Miss Tomkinson


Year 9 – Calvin C Awarded for his excellent effort & work in Spanish. He is showing great flair for the language – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Josh S Awarded for his excellent effort & work in Spanish. He is showing great flair for the language – Mrs Savage


Year 10 – Anya N Awarded for her fab ATL in French – Mrs Jahromi

Year 10 – Blake R – Awarded for extra effort on his Spanish homework – Mrs Harris

Year 10 – Ella D Awarded for extra effort on her Spanish homework – Mrs Harris

Year 10 – Daisy PAwarded for extra effort on her Spanish homework – Mrs Harris

Year 10 – Sophia C Awarded for extra effort on her Spanish homework – Mrs Harris

Year 10 – Jonah N – Awarded for extra effort on his Spanish homework – Mrs Harris

Year 10 – Cameron K Awarded for incredible effort as a student rep and becoming an assembly reader – Mr Walker


Year 11 – Charlotte R Awarded for her hard work in Maths lessons – Mrs Walsh

Year 11 – Edith F Awarded for excellent progress for her Component 2 Performing Arts assessment – Mrs Whittaker

Year 11 – Sofia E-Z Awarded for consistent and incredible effort in Maths – Mr Walker

Year 11 – Oliver WAwarded for always contributing to lessons and offering valued contributions in EnglishMiss Thompson


Sixth Form  Tinu S-M Awarded for consistently being diligent and respectful – Ms Sewell

Sixth Form – Dylan M Awarded for consistently being diligent and respectful – Ms Sewell


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Earlier this week, our Year 7 Boys qualified for the Regional rounds of the schools Rugby League competition(as did all our age groups).

They were undefeated against West Lakes Academy, Whitehaven Academy, Workington Academy and Netherhall School. On a cold, wet night the boys produced some good attacking play, but it was their very solid defence that was the key to qualifying!

They are now looking forward to the County Semi-Final game, against Dowdales School from Barrow – date TBC. Well done lads! 

Our Girls’ football team delivered an excellent performance at the Copeland and Allerdale Football Festival hosted by Netherhall. Competing against nine schools, the team narrowly missed out on first place, finishing second overall after a close defeat to Keswick School.

The girls showed determination, skill, and teamwork throughout the tournament, with Lucy H making a strong impact across all fixtures.

Match Results

Group Stage

St Benedict’s vs Netherhall
1–0 win
Scorer: Lucy H
Lucy H made a brilliant run through the middle, found space, and struck a composed finish into the net.

St Benedict’s vs Workington
1–0 win
Scorer: Lucy H
A powerful shot from Lucy secured another well-deserved victory.


Champions League Round

St Benedict’s vs Whitehaven
1–0 win
Scorer: Lucy H
Another confident strike from Lucy continued the team’s strong momentum.

St Benedict’s vs Keswick
0–1 loss
A tight and hard-fought match saw Keswick edge the win, ultimately placing St Benedict’s in second place overall.

We’re excited to welcome our new team of Student Librarians, who will be assisting our Librarian, Miss Smith.

Over the next few weeks, they’ll begin their training and help with the day-to-day running of the library – shelving books, supporting classmates in finding resources, managing borrowing and returns, and encouraging a positive reading culture across the school.

Applications for students in Years 7, 8 and 11 will open in the New Year, so keep an eye out if you’d like to join the team! 

Scroll below to meet the new team: 

Other Student Librarians, not pictured above:

Year 9 – Gracie M, Enya P, Abby G 

Year 7 – Ryker C Awarded for logging over 5 hours of revision practice for the end of topic assessment in Science, amazing! He also completes all his homework every week with maximum effort – Mrs Clarkson

Year 7 – Gracie WAwarded for making good start this week in two of my lessons – Mr Merry

Year 7 – Corey P Awarded for always being well mannered and hardworking – Mr Merry

Year 7 – Ruby P Awarded for always being well mannered and hardworking – Mr Merry

Year 7 – Mia D – Awarded for an excellent English assessment, she was top of the class! – Ms Fitzmaurice

Year 7 – Alyssa M – Awarded for always showing amazing commitment and dedication to sport – Mrs Grealish

Year 7 – Poppy H – Awarded for her commitment to sport and excellent effort in every PE lesson – Mrs Grealish 


Year 8 – Noah S Awarded for awesome quick maths on a challenging question – Mrs Mulrain

Year 8 – Luca D Awarded for always working hard and trying his best Maths – Mr Walker

Year 8 – Saul JAwarded for his fantastic work in Computer Science designing a website. His creativity and attention to detail with this assignment has been great – Mr Burgess

Year 8 – Joseph B Awarded for excellent work on Pythagoras in Maths – Mrs Walsh

Year 8 – Isabelle A Awarded for excellent work on Pythagoras in Maths – Mrs Walsh

Year 8 – Spencer BAwarded for working hard on his dystopia story and producing a really good opening in English – Mrs McKee


Year 9 – Brody D Awarded for doing extra revision at home for his French assessment. Well done! – Mrs Harris

Year 9 – Logan SAwarded for always being punctual, polite & hard-working in English – Miss Thompson 

Year 9 – Oliver G – Awarded for always being punctual, polite & hard-working in English – Miss Thompson 

Year 9 – Nicole D Awarded for always persisting and trying hard in English. Good interpretations too – Miss Thompson


Year 10 – Matthew S Awarded with two nominations! Firstly, for being fabulous in French! And secondly, for being awesome in Geography! He was the first to complete the Mind Map challenge after only two days – Mrs Jahromi & Mr Gibson

Year 10 – Emily G Awarded for being fabulous in French! – Mrs Jahromi

Year 10 – Bethany D – Awarded for being fabulous in French! – Mrs Jahromi

Year 10 – Jayden C Awarded for making a huge effort to contribute in English. It’s good to see his confidence growing – Miss Thompson

Year 10 – Ella A Awarded for working exceptionally hard in GCSE Geography so far, achieving excellent results on Ecosystems assessments – Mrs Lee

Year 10 – Daisy PAwarded for working exceptionally hard in GCSE Geography so far, achieving excellent results on Ecosystems assessments – Mrs Lee


Year 11 – Ava S Awarded for being an absolute trooper in Design Technology, working independently at home and giving 100% effort in lessons. Always on time. Always works with a smile – Mr Stevenson

Year 11 – Joshua B Awarded for trying much harder in English. He has been offering interesting ideas or interpretations of late. Good to see his confidence growing – Miss Thompson

Year 11 – Katy S Awarded for excellent effort always in Maths – Mr Walker


Sixth Form – Alicia S Awarded for excellent contributions in Government & Politics lessons – Mrs Kar

Sixth Form – Robyn I – Awarded for excellent contributions in Government & Politics lessons – Mrs Kar

Sixth Form – Shane SAwarded for excellent contributions in Government & Politics lessons – Mrs Kar

Sixth Form – Ollie R – Awarded for excellent contributions in Government & Politics lessons – Mrs Kar

Sixth Form – Lilly M Awarded for excellent contributions in Government & Politics lessons – Mrs Kar

Sixth Form – Isabel B Awarded for producing some wonderful research and source analysis for her NEA as well as homing her exam essay skills – Mrs Bridgman

Sixth Form – Ben W Awarded for producing outstanding NEA data for Geography – Mr Hamilton

Sixth Form – Audrey OAwarded for giving the entire class (and myself!) an entire masterclass on how to answer a 9 mark exam questions on circles. WOW! Incredible Mathematician! – Miss Hunter 


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Last week, a small group of our students visited Whitehaven Academy to take part in Josh MacAlister MP’s secondary pupil forum. They joined with other students from local school to discuss mobile phones and online safety. 

Mr McGaughey said:

“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱.”

“𝘞𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘶𝘱.”

Year 7 – Senudi W Awarded for her excellent work in the morning Maths sessions. Well done – Mrs Walsh

Year 7 – Faith P-R Awarded for showing diligence in her History work – Mrs Muncaster

Year 7 – Nyla RAwarded for being my Carlisle Castle expert on the school trip! She was an amazing wing-woman in the dungeons – Mrs Coan

Year 7 – Lottie CAwarded for trying really hard and showing great enthusiasm in peered reading – Mrs Freestone

Year 7 – Abby N Awarded for excellent work in English – Mrs Lloyd

Year 7 – Logan McAAwarded for diligence – he has worked really hard on his sewing project – Mr Merry

Year 7 – Layla-Mae H Awarded for diligence – she has worked through a number of problems on her sewing project – Mr Merry


Year 8 – Ellie R Awarded for working really hard in English with our new topic of Dystopian Writing – Miss Bradley

Year 8 – Olly LAwarded for working really hard in English with our new topic of Dystopian Writing – Miss Bradley

Year 8 – Amelia J-S – Awarded for working so hard in lessons and she only dropped one mark in her recent French assessment, well done – Mrs Harris 

Year 8 – Comfort McL Awarded for her studious approach to French – Mrs Harris

Year 8 – Willow McL – Awarded for her studious approach to French – Mrs Harris


Year 9 – Archie B Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on his recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about himself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Oliver C Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on his recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about himself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Maya D Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on her recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about herself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Gracie M Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on her recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about herself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Margaret Q – Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on her recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about herself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Callum R Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on his recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about himself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Calvin C Awarded with two nominations. Firstly, for achieving extremely high marks on his recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about himself in Spanish. And secondly, a fantastic rugby performance at the festival on Wednesday – Mrs Savage & Mr Spires

Year 9 – Ciara T Awarded for achieving extremely high marks on her recent Spanish assessment and have shown great vocabulary recall and good progress in being able to write a paragraph about herself in Spanish – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Marcus G Awarded for how well Marcus managed what was a really difficult day. I am very proud of you, well done Marcus. You are a superstar! – Mrs Savage

Year 9 – Bella T Awarded for working hard in the Language Leaders and already creating two online games for our club! – Mrs Harris


Year 10 – Jayden V Awarded for great effort in Business – always works hard – Mr Charlton

Year 1o – Sofia R – Awarded for great effort in Business – always works hard – Mr Charlton


Year 11 – Jordie W Awarded for persistent independence in Performing Arts. She has worked fabulously well on her prep for her Component 2 performance – Mrs Whitaker

Year 11 – Lucy M Awarded for excellent work in Geography – Mr Hamilton

Year 11 – Adam R Awarded for great work on poetry analysis, interesting interpretations. It’s lovely to see your growing confidence – Miss Thompson


Sixth FormCharlie F – Awarded for excellent work in Physics – Mr Lindner

Sixth Form – Isabel B Awarded for showing resilience – Mrs Kar

Sixth Form – Ben W – Awarded for being outstanding during chemistry monitoring – Mrs Kirkup

Sixth Form – Josie R Awarded for showing resilience and perseverance – Ms Sewell 

Sixth Form – Sam DAwarded for humility and truthfulness – Ms Sewell

Sixth Form – Alfie G Awarded for completion of good quality portfolio work – Mr Charlton

Sixth Form – Isaac MAwarded for trying hard and showing perseverance in his business finance work – Mr Charlton


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Another fabulous win in the COUNTY CUP, this time for our U18 Boys team! 

The boys were playing away against Whitehaven Academy, in a very enjoyable match which we won 4-2!
All of the boys who represented the school did so with an excellent level of determination and really stuck to their game plan and were a credit to St Benedicts.

The team were in control of the game throughout and definitely were the deserved winners and progress to round 3 of the COUNTY CUP now! 

Goal scorers were: Lennon P x2, Lewis O’F x1 and the pick of the goals finishing a lovely passing and flowing move was Elijah L x1

Last night our U14 Boys Football team took on Workington Academy in the COUNTY CUP whilst battling awful conditions.
 
The team started excellently going 2-0 up at half time. At the start of the second half Workington were given an opportunity to get back into the game from the penalty spot. However, Matty L pulled off an excellent double save to ensure the score remained 2-0.
 
St. Benedict then built on their excellent performance by scoring another 3 goals in the second half to finish it game 5-0.
 
The goal scorers were Alfie P x 4 and Harry G x1 
 
Well done to everyone involved in an excellent team performance!