Hipperholme Grammar

🍫 Form 2 had a scrumdiddlyptious time on their trip to York Chocolate Story. The day was filled with chocolate tasting, chocolate making and finding out about both the ancient origins of cacao and the growth of chocolate making in Yorkshire 🍫

Last week Reception Class had a fabulous trip to the M&S Archive Museum in Leeds. They used their previous knowledge on colour and shape to design a biscuit tin. They also had fun dressing up!

🥈Congratulations to Eli on his speed skating silver medal at the Short Track Speed Skating British Championships. Eli competed in the Junior E Boys (U11’s) category. Well done Eli!

❄ Happy New Year and Welcome Back to a wintery HGS! ❄ We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and are ready for a fantastic Spring Term. Our caretakers have worked tirelessly to allow the school to open today and many of our staff helped with clearing snow yesterday.

We held our annual carol service on Wednesday evening at St John the Baptist Church in Coley. It was a lovely evening of carols, modern songs and readings from our very talented Junior and Senior pupils. A special thank you to Reverend Canon James Allison for hosting.

It's Christmas Jumper Day for our Seniors! Thank you to all our pupils and staff who wore their Christmas jumpers today, it has been amazing to see such an array of designs. Thank you for everyone's donations which will be forwarded to Save the Children. @savechildrenuk

Yesterday was an extremely proud day for our School and our Friends & Family Association as we officially opened the new gazebo Thanks to tireless fundraising from the FFA and kind parent donations we have this wonderful outdoor structure for our pupils to enjoy in all weathers

🎭Last week our Y11 pupils had a busy couple of days of theatre trips. On Thursday they traveled to see ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and on Friday they saw Blood Brothers at Leeds Grand Theatre. Both were fantastic and great revision for their mocks.

Form 5 has had some exciting practical Science lessons this term with investigations into solubility and a sparkler experiment. We definitely have some budding scientists in the group! NURTURE | INSPIRE | ACHIEVE

🎼🎄 Please join us at St John the Baptist Church, Coley for our annual Christmas Carol Service on Tuesday 17th December at 7pm. We would love to see families from across the Foundation join us for the event, whether your child is taking part or not 🎄🎼

☃️It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in our dining hall! Thank you to Helen for making this amazing gingerbread house, it's a work of art! 🏠❄️

🏃Calderdale Cross Country Success! We’re thrilled to share that 9 of our runners qualified for West Yorkshire - an incredible achievement! 🎉 A special congratulations to: 🥉 Henry – 3rd place 🥉 Harry – 3rd place We couldn’t be prouder of every single one of our pupils👏

🍂☀️ Pre-school took full advantage of the beautiful sunshine yesterday and went for a fun walk in the woods. We are so lucky to have the woods on our doorstep! ☀️🍂

Congratulations to William who has taken part in the 10km Cancer Research Swim. The challenge was to swim a total of 400 Lengths of a 25m pool throughout the month of November. He has now increased his challenge to 12.5km to enable him to keep raising funds for @CR_UK .

What a night we had on Thursday, celebrating our amazing pupils and wonderful school. Our annual Speech Night was an evening of prize-giving, speeches and music at Halifax Minster. A special thank you goes to Liz Cammock our guest speaker and fellow Brodleian.

❄️🧥 Coat appeal with Shelter for the homeless If you no longer need a coat or warm jacket please can you bring them to School. Shelter will deliver our donations directly to families and individuals across our area. * Donations can be left at Reception or Sportshall *

⭐️ Friday was a day full of cake to raise money for Children In Need ⭐️ Our school council arranged a huge bake sale along with face and nail painting. Thank you to everyone who bought a sweet treat or donated for non-uniform. As a school, we raised over £800!

A special assembly was held today for our Senior pupils to mark Armistice Day. Our Year 11 Leadership Team recited poetry and read the names of Hipperholme Grammar teachers and pupils who fell in WW1 and WW2. Readings and prayers were also given by Mr James and Canon Allison.

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them. Our Junior pupils mark Armistice Day with a special assembly #ArmisticeDay #lestweforget #independentschool #hipperholmegrammarschool #brodleian #nurture #inspire #achieve

To mark National Stress Awareness Week (4th - 8th November), Mrs Sugden has put together a selection of useful information and resources for our Senior pupils. Posters will be displayed around school and videos played in form time to help our pupils cope with stress.