Heckmondwike Grammar School
@HeckGrammar
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Passionately committed to promoting academic excellence and providing stimulating learning experiences with a wide range of enrichment opportunities.
Heckmondwike, England
Joined December 2017
We are delighted to once again be recognised in the Sunday Times and this year absolutely thrilled to have received 2 awards. ⭐️Secondary School of the Year 2025 in the North of England ⭐️Secondary School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2025, Ranked No 1 in the North of England
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Meet James, a Level 6 Software Engineer at the BBC. Watch James’ 2-minute story film to find out more about how he found his apprenticeship, his day-to-day tasks at the BBC, and the things that he most enjoys about his apprenticeship experience. #NAW2025 #NationalApprenticeshipWeek
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Today a group of our Y12 Computer Science students are attending a Computer Science Taster Day at @HuddersfieldUni . They have learned about using AI as well as developing their own AI program.
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RT @HGSCareers: Its National Apprenticeship week! Come and speak to the careers team in the SCR with your apprenticeship questions #NAW2025…
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*NATIONAL APPRENTICEHIP WEEK* This week we are celebrating the fantastic opportunities apprenticeships provide for building skills, careers, and futures. We have a variety of events planned throughout the week including some inspiring success talks from former students! #naw2025
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What a pleasure it was to welcome @KirkleesMayor Madam Mayor on Friday. She came to congratulate us on our recent national awards and present us with a certificate of merit, which we are very grateful. She also enjoyed chatting with students and a tour of the school.
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Our Year 12's had a very insightful and inspiring day at @WorcesterCollege Oxford yesterday. Huge thanks, as ever, go to Zoe and Lily in the Access and Outreach Department, who made us feel really welcome and gave our students lots to think about.
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RT @pe_hgs: Super proud of these U13 girls footballers 👏🏻 For some of them it’s the 1st experience of competitive school football. Not the…
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Well Done to the KS3 and KS4 Badminton teams who played in the West and North Yorkshire round of the National Schools Badminton competition hosted by Harrogate Ladies College. KS3 finished second and KS4 finished 5th overall!
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Last week we had an amazing guest speaker come into school to discuss life as a doctor. Dr A Riaz is a consultant urologist and provided such an insight into the profession and the different routes to being a consultant. Students had the opportunity to take part in some hands on activities involving suturing and using an endoscope, there was also a range of models for students to look at and were given a thorough overview of what types of medicine Dr Riaz practises. The students were all very thankful for such an interesting workshop. Thank you!
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Good luck to our Year 8 languages students who are taking part in the @UKLingOlympiad The competition involves spotting patterns and solving complex linguistic problems.
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A lovely sunny (but cold) day for our Year 12 geography students carrying out fieldwork in Hornsea.
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Yesterday we had a wonderful visit from Raidah Azam who came to speak to our students about a career in Dentistry and Maxillofacial surgery. The talk was inspiring and really educated our students on what a day in the life of someone in this career would be like. Students asked some amazing insightful questions. Thank you for giving up your time to speak with our students!
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Thank you to our guest interviewers for supporting us with our Y10 mock interviews today. Once again we have had some fantastic feedback from our employers and students found them very beneficial.
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Massive thanks to Zoe, Megan and Zac from BAE systems who, in partnership with the RAF and Royal Navy, delivered a fantastic AI roadshow to our Y7 and Y8 students this morning as part of the STEM pathway programme. We met Lexi the cobot dog, created a music video for the next hit pop song about a cat flying through space, and found out more about how AI is revolutionising our world #AI
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We are very grateful to the wonderful parents who attended our financial education parent focus group. Ideas on how to raise the financial literacy of our students were shared and discussed. Watch this space for our resulting initiatives and if you would like to express your views or be involved in the future please get in touch!
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