Following Westcliff High School for Boys’ success in the Anthea Bell Competition for Young Translators last year, once again we are delighted to share with you the UK-wide success of seven of our pupils in the 2024 fourth edition of the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. Over 16,000 entr...

On Monday 1 July, WHSB was represented by three Sixth Form musicians at the opening ceremony of the Knife Angel sculpture in Southend. Created by the British Ironwork Centre, from over 100,000 confiscated and surrendered weapons, the aim of the imposing installation is to raise awareness around viol...

The School is absolutely thrilled after winning not one but two National Schools Theatre Awards (NSTA) for our production of Les Misérables in March this year. Following five-star reviews of the production, the School was shortlisted in a number of categories, winning Best Actor in a Musical...

On 20 July 2024, our Lower Sixth Physical Education class will be running the ‘Half for Havens’, a half marathon in aid of Havens Hospices, one of the local charities that our School supports. https://www.gofundme.com/f/half-for-havens Havens provides palliative nursing and supportive...

On 9 May 2024, as part of our careers provision at WHSB, Connexions Southend and Deloitte Management Consultancy were invited to the School to talk to our Year 7 and 8 pupils. Nick Chard (Connexions Southend) provided an insight into the careers guidance that the School arranges for pupils during...

Join us as Westcliff Drama takes to the high seas, this time with Gilbert and Sullivan’s rollicking, frolicking operetta The Pirates of Penzance. Pirates is surely the zippiest and most fun of these wonderful 19th century pieces, with Gilbert and Sullivan at their jolly collaborative best in n...