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• Whitworth High boxer and footballer is runner-up in Rochdale Active Awards

  Tue 03 Dec 2024 Rochdale Online

  A teenage boxer from Whitworth Community High School, who is in training for a national title fight next year, was runner-up in Rochdale Borough Active Awards.

   

  More than 30 young people had been nominated for the Young Sports Achiever category and just three were selected as finalists at the awards held at Middleton Arena.

   

  Harrison, 13, was nominated for his commitment to boxing, he trains three times a week at Littleborough Boxing Club and also football, he helped his former team Pennine Juniors Black to win the treble – cup, league and premiership titles.

   

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• Whitworth Students take part in exclusive masterclass series

  Tue 03 Dec 2024 Lancashire Telegraph

  A literacy journey from Taylor Swift to William Shakespeare was embarked on by able, gifted, and talented (AGT) students from Whitworth Community High School.

   

  Along with seven other schools, the students took part in the first of a series of exclusive masterclasses. They met Dr Scott Annett, senior tutor of studies in the faculty of English at Robinson College, Cambridge University, at nearby Rochdale Town Hall.

   

  The six Year 8 students also explored Chaucer and Dante in the two-hour session.

   

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