Academy Status

Following the announcement by the Secretary of State for Education on November 17 th that schools that were judged ‘good with outstanding features’ were eligible to apply to convert to academy status the Full Governing Body took the decision at its meeting on November 24 th to register an interest with the Department for Education. It is important to make clear that this does not mean that the school is committed to becoming an academy. The Governors once we have a named contact at the Department for Education will undertake full consultation with staff, representative groups, students, parents and other interested parties so all the options can be explored. As a start we have created a section on the school’s website at http://www.nhgs.co.uk/academy which has relevant information about academies and academy status which is provided by the Department for Education.

GPM

The Yorkshire Agricultural Careers Convention

Thirty students from The North Halifax Grammar school visited the Yorkshire Agricultural Careers Convention in Harrogate on 12th October to look at the range of potential jobs available in the rural economy.

There were a number of exhibits by agricultural and higher educational colleges highlighting courses of further study in subjects like veterinary medicine, equine studies and estate management. There were also workshops that the students participated in such as animal care, dry stone walling, game keeping, cheese making, garden designing and many more.

The event was an eye opening experience for many and showed the huge numbers of jobs available in the countryside for those students that have an interest in more applied subjects.

NIH

The Marines' are coming!

The Royal Marines and 100 students. Read our report...

The Challenge of Management Conference 2010

The event culminated with a Dragons Den style activity where the pupils were encouraged to be entrepreneurial and pitch their ideas of a profitable product to a panel of eminent local business judges. The event was well supported by a professional advisors form a host of local companies who worked with the individual teams.....Read More

Record Breaking UKMT Junior mathematical Challenge!

This year sixty two year 8 students completed the UKMT Junior mathematical Challenge, an hour long multiple choice paper . A record breaking twenty three of these achieved gold certificates, twenty silver certificates and eight bronze certificates.

Six NHGS students performed so well on the paper they have been invited  to take part in the follow up competition, the Junior Mathematical Olympiad.

They are:

Cameron Wells (best in school)
Daniel Wilson
Samuel Walker
Alex Maurice
Alfie Finan
Caelinn James

Congratulations to all the students involved and best of luck to the six Olympiad qualifiers.

Results: Find out who achieved Gold, Silver and Bronze certificates here.