Academy Sport +

We are honored to be launching our Academy Sport+ Scheme! Meet our top ten athletes that are representing Penketh High School in this amazing new opportunity! We have years 8 – 11 proudly representing our school, follow our socials to track their journeys across the year! A programme created to reward elite students and create…

TCAT Mentor Day 2022

TCAT Mentor Day On the 2nd Dec 2022 Penketh High School welcomed a group of pupils from Priestley College to our first TCAT Mentor day. This was a huge success and pupils from both Penketh High and Priestley College commented on how impactful the day was for them. At Penketh High School pupils focus on…

Children In Need 2022

The last couple of years have been incredibly hard for children and young people. Living through Covid has caused feelings of anxiety, fear and hopelessness in too many children; and the cost of living crisis is now pushing even more families into hardship. Here at Penketh we want to do everything in our power to…

Road Safety & Bike Safety

Last week we had a brilliant visit from Warrington Borough Council to educate our pupils about road safety especially when cycling. Here at Penketh High School we have a high percentage of pupils that cycle to school, so it is important that everyone knows the importance of road safety, even more so with the dark…

Meet our Pupil Leadership Team

The Pupil Leadership Team is a vital part of school life at Penketh High School. It is an important and useful way for our school to provide leadership and development opportunities for our pupils and it is a great way for students to take on leadership roles, promote the voice of the student body, problem…

Geography Trip – Grasmere Year 9

Our amazing year 9 pupils undertook a visit to sunny Grasmere in the Lake District,  on a beautiful autumnal day in October. Their behaviour was exemplary, and they soon got into the hang of greeting walkers in a polite and genuine manner on their 5.5-mile hike. Several Walkers commented on their exceptional manners and warm…

EAL Support at Penketh High School

We currently have 125 EAL pupils, these range from pupils newly arrived to the country with limited English to those pupils who are fluent in two, even three languages. This equates to approximately 13% of our school. Our largest cohort within our EAL pupils speak Cantonese as their first language but we also have twenty…

Skills Builder Gold Award 2022-2024

Penketh High School has been awarded the ‘Skills Builder Gold Award’, recognising their commitment to the highest quality Careers and Essential Skills Education. Penketh High School received the Skills Builder Gold Award in July 2022, which recognises schools who are ‘modelling best practice in high-quality essential skills education’. Skills Builder works with over 800 education…

Benefits of a school dog

Dear Parents and Carers,   We are pleased to be able to inform you that from September 2022 we will have a school dog on site for some days during the school week. Whilst the dog is in training, she may also be present on school site in the run up to September. This has…