IN this week's nostalgia, we have collated together memories from high schools and sixth forms in our local areas.

One school featured is St. Benedicts Catholic School and Sixth form which opened in 1971.

Since then, the school was awarded specialist engineering college status in 2002. It has the Healthy Schools Award, and is a Fairtrade School. It became one of only ten schools nationally to achieve advanced status in study support and also achieved the International Schools Award.

In January 2019, the school was co-located with Mayfield Special School as part of Campus Whitehaven, which was £33m investment for the area.

Notable alumni of the school include Kyle Amor who is currently playing for St. Helens, Thomas Docherty politician and former MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, Dean Henderson, who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Nottingham Forest, on loan from Manchester United and Brad Kavanagh, actor and musician, known for his role in House of Anubis.

Whitehaven School opened in 1984 taking pupils from the Whitehaven Grammar School which had moved to the Overend site in 1968. The school converted to academy status in January 2014, sponsored by the Bright Tribe Trust, and was renamed the Whitehaven Academy. In mid 2018 the new sponsor for The Whitehaven Academy was named as Cumbria Education Trust.

Notable alumni of the school include rugby players; James Donaldson, Steve McCurrie, and Gregg McNally, Tony Cooper, Robert Fell CB CBE and Jim Graham OBE.

West Lakes Academy was formed in 2008 from the merger of Wyndham School, which was built and opened in the 1960s, with Ehenside School. West Lakes Academy opened on September 1 2008. 

Trudy Harrison is an former pupil of the school.