Our final assembly of 2024 wouldn’t be a final assembly without a whole school rendition of - The Twelve Days of Christmas! Wishing everyone a fun filled Christmas break and a happy and healthy New Year 🎉

Former Holmfirth High pupil, Jess Gunning, has won Best Supporting Female Actor in Television at the Golden Globes last night. We couldn’t be prouder or more thrilled for her. Congratulations from all of us 🥳🥳❤️ #AlwaysFollowYourDreams

Our library theme this month is myth and magic 🪄 🦄🧜‍♀️ Come along and see what we have #HolmfirthHighReads 📚

Huge thank you to Daniel Blythe for his visit today. A full day of talks and workshops, talking about inspirations for writing, characterisation, gripping openings and of course, Dr Who. A great day as always 📚📖 #HolmfirthHighReads

A great day of workshops with footballer, ghostwriter and author Seth Burkett some great creative writing ideas from our pupils. Thanks Seth 😊📚 #HolmfirthHighReads

Holmfirth High School Reads Great to meet everyone - thanks for having me!

Proud to introduce GCSE Classics at Holmfirth High School 🏛️🏺

Ahead of World Book Day, today we hosted the great HHS World Book Day quiz, inviting schools to join us from across Kirklees. Thank you to Read. Holmfirth for your amazing support, Conrad Burdekin for compèring and congratulations to our winners- Kirkburton Middle School ! 🤩🏆

Year 8 today were treated to a trip to the Bridgewater Hall to hear The Hallé live. On World Book Day pupils explored a range of music inspired by classic texts. A fantastic time was had by all 🎶🎵🎼

Earlier this week two of our pupils Temi and Eve attended the regional heat of the English Speaking Union Shakespeare competition. Both girls were amazing, up against stiff competition. Very proud to announce that Eve has made it through to the regional final! Well done Eve 🎉

Fantastic event today Greenhead College with historical author Philippa Gregory , celebrating the launch of the teen version of her book -Normal Women. Great presentations from pupils on inspirational women. We can’t wait to read the book. Thanks Read. Holmfirth for inviting us 📚📖

Congrats to Holmfirth High, who won a virtual visit from me in the #ClassicalAssociation Write | Speak | Design Competition prize draw. I'll be speaking to older pupils about #MythMoviesAndStorytelling with emphasis on #TheHerosJourney. Check out my diary carolinelawrence.com/diary/

A fantastic poetry workshop yesterday as part of a Holmfirth response to the Marsden Tenterhooks collaboration with Simon Armitage. Matt Abbott used Simon’s poems as prompts to inspire writing about Holmfirth! ✍️

Today was the start of our month long - Read for Daniel. All pupils we be reading 20 minutes a day in memory of Daniel and to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support . Donations and sponsorship can be given via Parent Pay or the just giving link below 😊💚📚

Very proud of pupil Eve P, who this week competed in the penultimate round of the ESU Performing Shakespeare Competition, where she performed as Lady Macbeth. Unfortunately she hasn’t made the final at The Globe, but received some fantastic feedback and we are really proud 🥹 😊

Wishing all our Year 11 the very best of luck over the next few weeks. You’ve got this! 💪🏼👊✍️

Delighted to announce that we have won the Classics for All Impact Award! Miss Knowles, our driving force behind Classics, has been invited to the Royal Armouries, Leeds, for a special ceremony in June to collect the award 🏛️🏺#Classics

A fantastic day Hay Festival listening to authors, browsing the gift shop, eating ice cream and of course, buying books 📚 thank you for having us 😊 #HayFestival #ReadingForPleasure

Always a pleasure to have World Champion Freestyle Rapper, poet, storyteller and songwriter- Rob Bradley in school. Working with Year 7, today we talked about rhymes and rhythms, passion and confidence. Some great performances from our pupils at the end. Thanks Rob 🙏🎵🎤✍️

The Classics section of the library is expanding ready for our first year of Classics GCSE 🏛️🏺