HGS News Archive

We are currently experiencing some problems with our email service. The service may be interrupted from time to time, and may run on a reduced-features basis for some of the time.

We expect that emails sent to school will be delivered, although some may be delayed. If your  message is urgent then we suggest you consider telephoning the school rather than using email until the service is fully restored.

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There are currently roadworks ongoing on High Street which may cause some disruption to travel.

Will Parents please take this into account over the next few days or weeks, and avoid parking on High Street and allow a little extra time for journeys.

A reminder to students about the arrangements for the start of term.

Friday 3rd September: Induction day for year 7 and 12 only, 0845 to 1535. Year 7 to attend in full uniform.

From Monday 6th September: All students in school 0845 - 1535.

Please ensure that your child's cashless catering account is in credit ready for the first day back to school.  For more information click here

Heckmondwike Grammar School will open as a new Academy with effect from 1^st September 2010.

A big well done to this year's year 11 who broke several records again with their GCSE results. Our 164 students achieved  2041 passes at grade C or better, an average of 12.4 passes per candidate. Almost 90% of the grades awarded were at B or better and 75% of these grades were either A or starred A.

There were some outstanding individual performances. Tanieka Kargwal, Amara Patel, Amirah Valli, Sarah Lucas, Charlotte Burns and Sophie Denton each achieved a remarkable 12 or more A* grades and  Chloe Ashton, Georgina Barry, Rachel Foster, Safiya Gajra, Paul Gape, Joshua Glassett, Airlangga Gunawan, Ashleigh Harwood, James Heseltine, Jonathan Rhodes, Seemeen Sakharkar, Eleanor Tankard and Ali Zafar were each awarded 10 or 11 A* passes.

In total a record 134 students achieved five or more A/A* grades, and 158 students achieved an A* or A grade in at least one subject, results which reflect once again the hard work and dedication of the staff and students . Congratulations!

Congratulations to all our students on achieving some excellent A-level results this year. Our 244 upper sixth students achieved 978 A-level pass grades, and when these were combined with their AS results the average number of passes was almost 4.9 per student (AS grades counting half).

There were 100% pass rates in almost all subjects and the quality of grades achieved was high. Excluding general studies, 85% of results were at grade C or better and 71.4% of these grades were either A*,A or B. There were some outstanding individual performances. Fifty students achieved 3 or more grade A* or A passes, thirty-five students achieved 4 or more grade A* or A passes and fourteen students achieved a remarkable 5 A* or A-grades. Sixty four students, between them, amassed an impressive total of 232 A* or A grades.

Particular congratulations go to Lewis Bartlett, David Lukic, Yajur Shah and Emma Stirk on achieving 4 A* grades.

The average UCAS points score, at 446.7 is our best ever performance and means that the vast majority of our year 13 students have secured places at University. These results reflect a tremendous amount of dedication by the students and staff and represent rich reward for all their hard work - well done!

The Heckler 2010 is now available to download from the "Magazines" section of our web site.