HGS News Archive

Note to the new year 7 students coming in for induction day Friday 3rd September - you will not need your PE kit.

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

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!

A PDF file containing the relevant information is available here. It contains details of all the topics covered, including results information, how to accept your offers, explanations of clearing, adjustment and next steps.

Results Day is Thursday 19th August.

Results can be collected from school at 10am.

Students are advised to check their offers on UCAS track.

Staff will be available to see students eligible for clearing from 8.00am, and for any other student enquires from 10.00am. 

There are 3 new vacancies being advertised on the HGS web site:

Catering Assistant

Cleaners

Lunchtime Supervisors

For further information and an application form please visit our Vacancies page

HGS currently has vacancies for both an ICT Teacher and English Teacher (Temporary). All applicable details can be found on the school vacancies page.

A PDF file is now available to download containing details applicable to all students that will be attending the Year 7 Induction Day on Monday 28th June. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the school.

The Local Authority will be carrying out essential work on the schools broadband link starting at 8pm on Wednesday 26th May and continuing until 6am on Thursday 27th May. This work affects all schools in the Kirklees LEA.

The following services provided by HGS will not be available during this time:

• HGS Web Site
• Staff and Student email
• Moodle (HGS Virtual Learning Environment)
• Work from Home