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• Whitworth Community High School students learn about Boccia

  Mon 27 Jan 2025 Catherine Smyth

  Students at Whitworth Community High School have been learning a new sport and will be running a tournament for Year 6 pupils and Year 7 students.

   

  The 15 sports ambassadors at the school met with wheelchair racing champion Paralympian Nathan Maguire, who introduced them to the sport of Boccia, accessible indoor bowling.

   

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• High school adds two more sporting students to Hall of Fame

  Fri 24 Jan 2025 Catherine Smyth

  Two sporting stars from Whitworth Community High School have been inducted onto the school’s Hall of Fame wall.

   

  When Ruby Aughey got the chance to go tubing being dragged through the water on a rope behind a boat she found she loved it and now she is a British National Waterski Champion at just 11-years-old.

   

  Know-no-fear Ruby, from Whitworth, took up the sport at nine and now the student from Whitworth Community High School wants to compete for Team GB on a world stage.

   

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• High school students raise over £2,000 for hospice

  Fri 24 Jan 2025 Catherine Smyth

  A whole school glow dodgeball event was one of several fundraising activities which helped students raise more than £2,000 for Rossendale Hospice.

   

  Twelve Year 10 members on the Youth Enterprise team from Whitworth Community High School came up with a series of imaginative ideas to make sure that every member of the school - students, teachers and support staff - helped to raise funds.

   

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