Holy Family English Department

Our learning journey for 2025-2026 📚 #TeamEnglish

Q1-4 Language Paper 1 top tips from our resident senior examiner ⭐💭 Y11 intervention ... #englishgcse #aqaenglish #aqalanguage

Lots of productive work happening in year 7 and 8 today! Keep digging in, everyone. 🏋️🌱

Happy Christmas, Holy Family College! 🎄🎁✨

#TeamEnglish are partaking in jolabokaflod this Christmas... Could it be something your friends/family try too? 📚 ✨🎁🩷

Day 1 and 2 - who's joining us? 🤶🎄🎁 #writing #advent #literacy

8p1 are performing exceptionally well with upgrading their #vocabulary - in a consistent way, not simply dropping in impressive words ad-hoc. Today, they got so comfortable with: cryogenic euphoric minuscule enervated somnolent soporous Machiavellian malevolent

It's time! 🎄❄️

Year 7 are working towards fantastic descriptions, using ISPACE! GO TEAM. 🙏

A great Christmas present idea! 📚 🎁 (Down the road, at The Village Hotel, inside Starbucks!) #heywood #bury

Mrs Jones and her amazing 10p2 visual golden thread 🪡👑🙏 #Macbeth #EssaySkills

Get ready for December 1st! 🤶

☃️✨ Christmas Advent in English! 🎄🎁 Complete the Christmas challenge for a prize upon completion. 🎁 #literacy

Year 8 are working hard drafting a narrative including a protest, following reading and inspiring moment in Noughts and Crosses. 🪧⚠️🚨 #youngwriters #english

Shout out to this AMAZING bunch of students who attended intervention after school to focus on clear vs perceptive answers in literature analysis: Edie O Imogen C Olivia H Noah B Ella D Vyshnavi B Sophia S Namuun B Dabira OF Lucy D Ruby S Megan K Patrick L Logan H Olivier S

Miss Thomas has been exploring the differences between simple, some, clear and perceptive. 🤩 Well done, year 11! 🪄 #teamenglish

Wow! Outstanding work from Mrs Jones's 10p2! Exploring the deliberate allusions from the exposition of Shakespeare's Macbeth. 👑 Special mention to Lilibelle and Darcie for this superb presentation. 🪄 #teamenglish

Miss B's 10P1 have been working so hard, analysing Macbeth's initial introduction in the greatest play! 👑 #teamenglish

Year 7 Sparx Reader homework is now live. 📚 Students should aim for 300 points (min) weekly. Set every Monday, due every Monday. 🔁  📚The more you read, the better you get. 🎯The books will suit YOU. 📈You'll see progress. 💬It helps in ALL subjects. 💪It builds confidence.

Happy half-term. 🌙 🍂 📚

New shout out cards for a more physical and lasting form of praise. 👑✨ #ukedchat