Year 8 have been learning about how to prevent, report, delete and remove cyberbullying as part of Anti Bullying Week 2011, in English and IT lessons this week. Pupils have learned how to prevent cyberbullying and harassment by not engaging with bullies online, how to protect themselves using privacy settings and how to report and [read more]
Rory Selvey, a year 8 pupil at Woodleigh School, has won a writing competition organised by Malton Museum as part of the Malton Literature and Writing Festival. Children from all over Ryedale were asked to write an article to persuade the community that museums are important and need to be kept safe. Malton Museum is currently threatened [read more]
Since the launch of the new Woodleigh School website in September over 10000 people have visited. The ten thousandth visitor was recorded at midday today viewing the site from a location near Hull. Earlier this month, Woodleigh’s Twitter page recorded its 15,000th follower – a world record – cementing the school’s position as the most [read more]
Year 7&8 have been writing about Malton Museum as part of a persuasive writing unit in English lessons. Earlier this year Malton museum announced that it would close unless a substantial amount of funding was found. By Robert Bradley, Year 8 Malton museum was established to house items from the area of historic value and importance. The [read more]

Pupils in Years Seven and Eight at Woodleigh have been creating descriptions based on paintings by John Dyer and Sam Walsh, as part of a unit in creative writing. Here are some examples of their descriptions and links to the paintings used as impetus. Will Bradley – Year 7 Inspired by this painting by Sam Walsh I am [read more]
Theatre Trip - York Theatre Royal - Thursday 29th September We are going to see a performance of “The Hare and the Tortoise” this Thursday. Please send your child to school in their formal uniform – white shirts, ties, blazers and shiny shoes. School will begin and end at the usual times. Many thanks, Miss Howitt.
Woodleigh School is offering half price books via the Puffin Book Club scheme. Every book ordered earns the school 50% commission to purchase books for the library, classrooms and learning support. Books can be delivered free to Woodleigh to be sent home with your child. The Autumn term deadline for free delivery to school is [read more]
New books in the Woodleigh School library (4 of 4), originally uploaded by Woodleigh School. WOODLEIGH School library has added over 90 new books this week. The new stock includes band new novels by top fiction authors including Stephenie Meyer, Michael Morpurgo, Darren Shan, Antony Horowitz, Rose Impey and Matthew Skelton. In the non-fiction [read more]






