Friends Coffee Morning
Friends of Upper Wharfedale School coffee morning on Saturday 14th September at Church House. Donations for tombola, raffle and home baking very much appreciated. Volunteers also required to help on…
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Climate Change Teacher
Over the past few weeks Mr Jackson has been completing a selection of 6 courses accredited by the United Nations on climate change. Having passed all the tests, he is…
Story Explorers present to you our Activities Week extravaganza: ‘The Wharfedaily Gazette’!
During Activities Week, our 'Story Explorers' have been working collaboratively to produce a school newsletter. The team were given roles such as Editor, Lead Writer, Layout Designer and Features Editor,…
Upper Wharfedale School’s work to protect students’ mental health has been recognised with a national award
Upper Wharfedale is the first maintained secondary school in North Yorkshire to have been commended for their focus on students and staff wellbeing by being awarded the Carnegie Centre of…
Dementia Friends in the community
Our Equalities Committee have been putting their recent training into practice. Our local community Nursing Home was approached to see if we could support them in any way. All the…
Improving our environment
Year 9 students at Upper Wharfedale School have been working hard to improve the school environment by planting trees. They have planted 30 trees of three different species - cherry,…
Me & You Education – ‘Creating a conversation’
On Wednesday 27th March Upper Wharfedale School were delighted to be able to invite Me & You Education in to school to deliver workshops challenging extremist behaviours. Ivan and Irfan…
Friends Curry & Quiz Night
UWS Friends are proud to announce our Curry & Quiz Night is back for 2019. Join us at The Fountaine Inn, Linton on the 29th March from 8:00pm to 10:30pm.…
Celebrating Performance Tables Success
With the release of the finalised GCSE School Performance Tables this week, we are celebrating the fact that we have been placed in the top 5% of schools in the…
Equalities commitee receiving our School of Sanctuary certificate
School of Sanctuary Award
Upper Wharfedale School is delighted to have been awarded School of Sanctuary status by the Skipton Town of Sanctuary group in recognition of the work that has been undertaken to…