Ypres and the Somme 🇧🇪 Last weekend the History and RS departments took 41 year 10 students to Ypres and the Somme to study the battlefields and memorials of the First World War 🪖 Students were lucky enough to visit the memorials of two soldiers related to students in the gr…

Goodbye to our year 11’s 👋🏼 We have said goodbye to another cohort of remarkable students and we are excited to see what the future holds for them ❤️ They had a fantastic time at their prom, held at The Telford Hotel, dancing the night away. They made a grand entrance with va…

First Day at HLC 📚 Today marked an exciting beginning as we warmly greeted our fantastic new group of year 7 students at our school. They immersed themselves in a day brimming with fresh encounters and discoveries 🤩 The day started with introductions to their form tutors, a…

Dance Company Select and Aspire Dance Company 💃🏻 We are very proud of all our students who have taken part in the auditions this week for Dance Company Select and Aspire Dance Company 🪩 We are looking forward to training and giving you many opportunities throughout the year 🤩

Football team success ⚽️ Congratulations to our year 10 student, Ellie, who has recently been selected for the U16 County football team 🏆 Well done Ellie, we are so proud of you! ⭐️

Extra-curricular timetable for the Autumn term 😁

Practical science 🔬 Our year 10 students have explored a required practical this week as part of their GCSE Biology course 🧫 They are learning about preventing bacterial growth and looking at which antibiotics are most effective against E.Coli 🧪

Cardingmill Valley ⛰️ Our geography department recently took year 9 out to look at their rivers fieldwork. They had a brilliant time studying river channel characteristics and changes downstream 🏞️

KS3 English ✍🏽 To celebrate National Poetry Day all KS3 students who had English was given an enrichment lesson based off the poem Ratios by Dean Martin 📖   The poem itself describes what made Dean Martin, him. We then asked students to come up with their own version of the p…

Computing and Statistics 📈 Recently our year 10 GCSE Computing and Statistics students took an inciteful trip to Bletchley Park 😊 They immersed themselves into the world of code breakers and saw how the use of computational thinking and Data helped to end WWII ⚙️

Hello Yellow 💛 Staff dressed in Yellow for World Mental Health Day. Yellow symbolises hope and to show people that we are here for each other 🌻 Tutor groups were invited to make the world a little brighter and participate in a ‘Dress the Desk’ competition and the challenge …

Year 10 textiles 📰 Recently our Year 10 students enjoyed a mixed media workshop delivered by artist Jennifer Collier. Their work was in response the mini coursework project on the theme of birds 🦜 Students chose media personal to them such as music, travel, cartoon strips, …

Year 9 netball team success 🏆 Congratulations to our Year 9 netball team who won the TWSSA plate tournament! They played fantastically and represented HLC with pride. It has been amazing to see their skills develop from strength to strength over the last 3 years 💪🏼 The team …

Careers fair 🚀 We had a wonderful after this week with various companies, sixth forms and colleges visiting HLC for our high aspirations for the future 💫 Thomas Telford School Sixth Form, Schneider, The Wrekin Housing Group, Crossbar, West Mercia Police and Telford College …

Visiting artist 👨🏼‍🎨 Y10 Art and Design GCSE students had the opportunity to work with visiting artist Ian Murphy in a one-day workshop 🎨 They got to learn about composition and shading techniques and try out some mixed media processes that Ian uses in his own work. The studen…

Jon Egging Trust 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 The Year 9’s visited RAF Shawbury and learned leadership skills and got to experience what role air traffic control play in the RAF ✈️ The year 8s visited RAF Cosford Museum and worked on communication and team work skills as they designed equipment…

Remembrance Day 🌹 Today students who are part of the Army Cadets, Air Cadets and Scouts paid their respects at the Hadley Cenotaph along with our 2 minutes reflective silence remembering those who fell in honour and appreciating those currently serving 🪖 “… And at the goi…

Netball and football wins 🎉 Our year 9 and 10 students kicked off the TWSSA netball winter league with an undefeated win for both teams against Holy Trinity, Madeley Academy and Charlton. They played fantastically, repressed HLC with pride and continued to develop their skill…

Local community 🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 Over the past term, we’ve been so grateful for the incredible support from our local community! A massive thank you to everyone who contributes to what we do here at HLC. 🙌 We’ve received a generous donation of uniforms from Tesco, supporting studen…

Music enrichment 🎼 We were lucky enough to have Ben from @tact_theartscentretelford in to lead a fantastic singing workshop as part of our music development 🎶 Students from year 7 to 11 experienced an afternoon of singing joy including games, warm ups, technique and working…