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For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Matthew 13:11-12

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Our learning journey for 2025-2026 📚 #TeamEnglish

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Q1-4 Language Paper 1 top tips from our resident senior examiner ⭐💭 Y11 intervention ... #englishgcse #aqaenglish #aqalanguage

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Lots of productive work happening in year 7 and 8 today! Keep digging in, everyone. 🏋️🌱

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Happy Christmas, Holy Family College! 🎄🎁✨

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#TeamEnglish are partaking in jolabokaflod this Christmas... Could it be something your friends/family try too? 📚 ✨🎁🩷

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Day 1 and 2 - who's joining us? 🤶🎄🎁 #writing #advent #literacy

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8p1 are performing exceptionally well with upgrading their #vocabulary - in a consistent way, not simply dropping in impressive words ad-hoc. Today, they got so comfortable with:

cryogenic

euphoric

minuscule

enervated

somnolent

soporous

Machiavellian

malevolent

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It's time! 🎄❄️

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Get ready for December 1st! 🤶

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Year 7 are working towards fantastic descriptions, using ISPACE! GO TEAM. 🙏

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A great Christmas present idea! 📚 🎁 (Down the road, at The Village Hotel, inside Starbucks!) #heywood #bury

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Mrs Jones and her amazing 10p2 visual golden thread 🪡👑🙏 #Macbeth #EssaySkills

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Get ready for December 1st! 🤶

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☃️✨ Christmas Advent in English! 🎄🎁
Complete the Christmas challenge for a prize upon completion. 🎁 #literacy

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Year 8 are working hard drafting a narrative including a protest, following reading and inspiring moment in Noughts and Crosses. 🪧⚠️🚨 #youngwriters #english

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Shout out to this AMAZING bunch of students who attended intervention after school to focus on clear vs perceptive answers in literature analysis:

Edie O
Imogen C
Olivia H
Noah B
Ella D
Vyshnavi B
Sophia S
Namuun B
Dabira OF
Lucy D
Ruby S
Megan K
Patrick L
Logan H
Olivier S

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Miss Thomas has been exploring the differences between simple, some, clear and perceptive. 🤩 Well done, year 11! 🪄 #teamenglish

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Wow! Outstanding work from Mrs Jones's 10p2! Exploring the deliberate allusions from the exposition of Shakespeare's Macbeth. 👑 Special mention to Lilibelle and Darcie for this superb presentation. 🪄 #teamenglish

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Miss B's 10P1 have been working so hard, analysing Macbeth's initial introduction in the greatest play! 👑 #teamenglish

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Year 7 Sparx Reader homework is now live. 📚 Students should aim for 300 points (min) weekly. Set every Monday, due every Monday. 🔁 
📚The more you read, the better you get.
🎯The books will suit YOU.
📈You'll see progress.
💬It helps in ALL subjects.
💪It builds confidence.

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Happy half-term. 🌙 🍂 📚

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New shout out cards for a more physical and lasting form of praise. 👑✨ #ukedchat