If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books ~ Roald Dahl. Holmfirth High School. Tweeting about all things reading 📚❤️
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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 🙏🎵🎤✍️
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A fantastic day @hayfestival listening to authors, browsing the gift shop, eating ice cream and of course, buying books 📚 thank you for having us 😊
#HayFestival #ReadingForPleasure
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Delighted to announce that we have won the @classicsforall 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
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Wishing all our Year 11 the very best of luck over the next few weeks. You’ve got this! 💪🏼👊✍️
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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 🥹 😊
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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 @macmillancancer . Donations and sponsorship can be given via Parent Pay or the just giving link below 😊💚📚
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! ✍️
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Congrats to @holmfirthhigh, 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/
Fantastic event today @GreenheadCol with historical author @PhilippaGBooks , 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 📚📖
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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 🎉
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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 🎶🎵🎼
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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, @conradburdekin for compèring and congratulations to our winners- @KMSchool ! 🤩🏆
A great day of workshops with footballer, ghostwriter and author @sethburkett some great creative writing ideas from our pupils. Thanks Seth 😊📚
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Huge thank you to @danblythewriter 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 📚📖
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Our library theme this month is myth and magic 🪄 🦄🧜♀️
Come along and see what we have
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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 🥳🥳❤️
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