West Lakes Academy is a vibrant 11-18 secondary school nestled in the western edge of the picturesque Lake District of Cumbria, serving a dynamic community of 1,200 students. Since opening in September 2008 and moving into our state-of-the-art £26m building in 2012, we have been committed to delivering the highest quality education in an environment that inspires success.
Our vision is to succeed in ‘Changing Lives through Learning’ by providing the very best possible educational opportunities for young people in West Cumbria. We have extremely high hopes for all of our students and our highly skilled and enthusiastic members of staff encourage children to have high ambitions and to work hard to achieve these.
Mr Stephen Grant
West Lakes Academy is committed to the creation of a fully inclusive, aspirational, high achieving Centre of Excellence, firmly rooted in the local community. Our vision is to succeed in ‘Changing Lives through Learning’ by providing the very best possible educational opportunities for young people in West Cumbria.
Changing Lives Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust with Sponsor Status and is a not for profit charity which sponsors primary and secondary academies.
Our January Safeguarding newsletter has been added to our website at the link below.
🌐 wla.education/january-safeguarding-newsletter/
In this edition:
Comms Groups
Everyday Consent
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🎭 Ready to try something new in 2026?
Our brand new Musical Theatre Group is on the lookout for budding singers, dancers, and actors to join the upcoming production of We Will Rock You.
✨ Come along and get involved, performers of all levels welcome.
📅 Tuesdays at 3pm
📍 The Dance Box
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💫Welcome Back💫
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break. We look forward to welcoming back all our students on Wednesday 7th January 2026 for the start of the Spring term.
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Amazing girls well done!Thank you to these young ladies who came and volunteered this week from West Lakes Academy they also sent us a lovely message: thank you so much for allowing me and my twin, Chloe to attend and help, we really enjoyed ourselves and it was such a great event to be part of, Merry Christmas! Lucy & Chloe Forster
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Well done to our last Christmas Reward winners! ✨
All of our reward winners have collected their baubles to take home as a keepsake! Well done everyone! 💫🎄
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Year 8 have been running Christmas competitions in tutor time in the final weeks of term. We have had a Christmas quiz, a drawing competition and a dodgeball competition.
We wanted to share some of the amazing work produced from our drawing competition. With our overall winner being Omotoke I in 8RL.
Overall winners for the dodgeball was 8ALE ! Congratulations Miss Lewis and the team.
Joint overall winners for the quiz were 8FB and 8RC.
Congratulations Miss Blackburn, Miss Chesher, Miss Caine and their teams! It has been fantastic to see our students getting into the Christmas spirit, along with some excellent teamwork on display throughout!
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📚🖊️The English department are proud to share their stars of the autumn term. These students have been nominated for their outstanding effort, progress, attitude and resilience in lessons since September. Well done to you all! ✨
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Dear Parents and Carers,
Please find below the link to the West Lakes Academy Winter Newsletter:
heyzine.com/flip-book/b0d1fd96e9.html
From all at WLA, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 🎄🎅🎁💚❄️⛄
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Mrs Williamson enjoyed birthday cake with the Year 7 students with December birthdays! Happy birthday everyone! 🎈🎉🎂
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