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…