News

Farewell Mr Brown

We are sad to say, Mr Brown, a long-standing member of our Pastoral Team, is retiring today...

Christmas Gifts for Thompson Court

Amnesty Competition Winner

We are extremely proud to say that Rabia in Yr 9 has won an Amnesty International competition which was open to students up to the age of 18 in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales!

Science Soap Making Kits

Last month Mrs Humphreys emailed all our Year 7 students inviting them to take part in a virtual science workshop!

Year 7 Outstanding Geography Work

During this half term, Mr Slade set his Year 7 Geography group a homework task entitled 'One Month in the UK '...

Staff Donate Gifts to Charity

At the beginning of November Mrs Humphreys asked members of staff to join her in donating gifts to children via the Clothing Bank's 'Be a Secret Santa Appeal'...

Brilliant Club Resumes

Our Brilliant Club classes are now well under way with students in Years 8, 9 and 12 benefitting from the expertise and teaching of the visiting PhD tutors...

Mr Atkinson's Update 30.11.20

This week sees the country coming out of 'lockdown' and with it brings new Tier Three restrictions. However, within school nothing is changing as Bradford is in the Very High risk tier so we need to continue to ask students to adhere to our SAFE acronym...

Staff Food Bank Collection

This half term our staff have been bringing in staple goods and tasty treats to donate to Mrs Greening's Foodbank appeal...

Mr Atkinson's Update 24.11.20

Max 7 Spanish - Day of the Dead Work

Mr Atkinson's Friday Message 13.11.20

Remembrance Day

Today students in all year groups have been learning about the history and significance of Remembrance Day...

Mr Atkinson's Friday Message 06.11.20

Good afternoon, It has been great to have our students back in school this week and even though there has been much upheaval in the world around them they have settled back into their studies very well...

Advice for Holiday Hunger

We hope all our families are having a happy and healthy half term but there is help available if holiday hunger is affecting you...

Road Closure in Wilsden Affecting School Bus Services

Archbishop of York Young Leaders

Last year 15 Year 8 students joined the KS3 Archbishop of York Young leaders Award group...

Curriculum Update

Mr Weston has sent an email to all parent/carers regarding the timetable changes which will begin on Monday...

Extreme Reading Competition

Back in March, our students took part in many activities to celebrate World Book Day...

World Mental Health Day

On Friday, students and staff raised awareness and showed their support for World Mental Health Day (Saturday 10th October) by wearing something yellow...

Bingley Bookworms

Our English department has started a new online book club which has been launched for Years 7 and 8...

Scholarship Awarded form The London Institute of Banking & Finance

We were delighted to report that Louie C in Year 13 achieved outstanding results...

Mr Atkinson's Friday Update

Today has been an excellent day with students specifically focusing on ways to support their own and others' wellbeing...

Wear Yellow for World Mental Health Day

On Saturday (10th October) it is World Mental Health Day...

Mr Atkinson's Friday Update 02.10.20

Friday has come round quickly again and yet again it has been an excellent week where students have really shown a sense of 'belonging' to Bingley Grammar School...

Virtual Action Day

On Tuesday 15th September Finn and Elliot in Year 10 took part in a virtual action day...

Mr Atkinson's Friday Update 29.09.20

Autumn has certainly arrived and it was good to see the majority of students were arriving with a coat over their blazer to protect themselves from the elements...

Virtual Open Evening

Monday 28th September 5.30 - 8.00pm

Mr Atkinson's Friday Update

Firstly, I would like to say congratulations to all our students for getting through the first full week at Bingley Grammar School. It has been amazing to see everyone back and working to keep our school community 'SAFE'...

School Meals and ParentPay

Due to the ongoing situation with Coronavirus please be aware that we now operate a cashless system with payments for school meals and trips only being accepted online through ParentPay...

Mr Atkinson's Mid-week Update

Dear parents/carers, This week has flown by with the school returning to some sense of normality...

Parking Concerns

Over the past week we have received several complaints from local residents about our parent/carers parking dangerously when dropping off and picking up...

Mr Atkinson's Friday Message

Thank you for everyone's hard work in ensuring the school opened back up safely this week. Students in all year groups have responded to the new changes magnificently...

Mr Atkinson's Message

Ties Update

Today's Message from Mr Atkinson

A Message from Mr Atkinson

School Update

Please read today's update from Mr Atkinson for Parent/Carers...

A Message for Year 7 Parents and Carers

We had a great first day on Friday and the Year 7 cohort applied themselves superbly to their new surroundings...

Full School Closure Notice

We will be fully closing the school for the week of 20.07.20 to 24.07.20 (including the office) to allow the staff that have been on-site for the majority of the lockdown period to have a well-deserved break...

Hegarty Maths Hall of Fame

This year Bingley pupils have spent an incredible 21,509 hours learning on the website answering 838,158 questions!

A Message for Year 6 Parents/Carers

For Parents/Carers of Year 6 students who are joining Bingley Grammar School in Sept as Year 7...

Airedale Hospital 50 Years Fundraiser

Airedale Hospital have contacted Bingley Grammar School asking for help. 2020 is their 50th anniversary, but because of COVID-19 all their anniversary celebrations have had to be cancelled. However…

An Inspirational Message from Eleanor Temple

Last week Mr Parapia sent out his weekly email to Year 8 and 9 (now the new Year 9 and 10!) with an inspirational message from Eleanor Temple. Eleanor is one of Mr Parapia's personal friends and also a highly successful Barrister and Deputy District Judge...

National School Sport Week at Home 2020

Mr Swann sent out an exciting email from the PE department yesterday to all our students inviting them to take part in the National School Sport Week at Home 2020!

Sixth Form Information

Information for current Year 11 and Year 12 students and their parent/carers...

Applying for a School Bus Pass

Currently all school bus applications must be done online. Click for more information...

Purchasing School Uniform

Parent/Carers will now be starting to think about school uniform for the next school year, especially those of our new Year 7 intake...

FREE SCHOOL MEALS UPDATE

An email has just been sent to all parent/carers, please ignore it if you have not been affected by this. Parents of children already in receipt of Free School Meals do not need to take any action...

WARNING - Free school meals scam

The Department for Education is raising awareness of a scam email about free school meals...

Supercook App

Mrs Wilkinson has found an app which can be used creatively to help plan meals and reduce food waste...

A Message to our Parent/Carers

A message from Mrs Dean...

Yrs 11, 12 & 13

Due to all exams being cancelled we have told all students in Years 11, 12 and 13 there is no need to come into school tomorrow...

A Message from Mr Weston for Yr 11 and Yr 13

This morning Mr Weston spoke to our Year 11 and Year 13 students...

Work for students not in school

For those students not in school, we are setting up a provision to carry on learning from home...

Amnesty Advisery Group

We are proud to have two students in Year 12 who have been chosen to be members of the Amnesty Youth Advisory Committee...

Soap Making Workshops

On Monday 2nd March Year 7 and 8 students enjoyed a Soap Making Workshop run by our Science Technicians....

ABoY Youth Conference, York

On Friday 6th March Miss Shah, Mrs Dean, Mr Durrans, and six students from Miss Shah's ABOY Young Leader's award group, were invited to speak at the ABOY Young leaders award conference...

Yr 11 Revision Support

Last Thursday (12th March) Mrs Dean held a Revision Support Information Evening for Parent/Carers...

Yr 8 Computing Trip to Bradford University

At the end of February, a group of Year 8 students were given the opportunity to visit the University of Bradford to attend a workshop in Computing due to their interest in this subject...

Arek Hersh Visits Year 7

On Wednesday 4th March, we welcomed back Holocaust survivor Arek Hersh and his wife Jean to share Arek’s story with our Yr 7 students...

Yr 8 Big Bang Trip - Cancelled

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the trip to the Big Bang in Birmingham on the 12th of March has had to be cancelled...

Yr 10 Careers trip

On Monday 02 March, our Careers Officer took a group of Yr 10 and 11 students to visit local publishing company Emerald Group...

Yr 11 Revision Support Session

Mrs Dean will be running a revision support session for parent/carers on Thursday 12th March at 6.00pm...

School Catering

We have been assured by our catering company that there will be a catering service for our students on Monday...

MFL Spelling & Translation Bee

On Monday 24th February Year 7 and 8 linguists took part in the inter-class Spelling and Translation Bee...

Send My Friend to School Campaign Champions

At the end of January Finn and Elliot in Year 9, with the help of Miss Shah, took part in a skype interview to become Campaign Champions for the ‘Send My Friend to School’ programme...

Brilliant Club Success for Isaac

Last year Isaac C (now in Year 9) was chosen to take part in the Brilliant Club Scholars Programme....

ABoY Bake Sale

Just before half term Miss Shah's Archbishop of York Young Leaders Award group decided to hold a bake sale to raise money for the BRI Children's Ward...

NCS Assembly and Award

On Monday and Thursday this week the NCS came into school to talk to our Year 11 students...

Netball Team News

Last week our PE department took netball teams from Years 7, 10 and 11 to play 4 matches against Bradford Grammar...

Year 12 Brilliant Club Graduation Trip

On Thursday 8th February 14 Year 12 students went to Leeds University to graduate from their course with The Scholars Programme...

KS4 An Inspector Calls Theatre Trip

On Thursday 30th January the English Department took a group of KS4 students to see An Inspector Calls at the Alhambra Bradford...

Holocaust Memorial Day Assemblies

Last week Mr Ward focussed assemblies for all year groups on Holocaust Memorial Day and the Stop Hate UK campaign...

Yr 8 Yorkshire Games Fest Trip

Yesterday 32 Year 7 and 8 students visited the National Science & Media Museum to take part in the Yorkshire Games Festival...

Yr 7 Charity Tombola

Last Friday a group of Year 7 students held a charity chocolate tombola during lunch break...

Yr 12 Charity Bake Sale

On Tuesday morning our Yr 7 and Yr 8 students enjoyed break time treats from the Yr 12 bake sale...

Psychology Attachment Workshop

On Thursday 23 Jan, our Year 12 A Level Psychology students took part in a real life demonstration of a famous psychological technique known as the Strange Situation...

FREE Adult Maths Classes

Eldwick Primary are running free Maths classes for adults every Thursday morning starting on 30th January...

Solutions Not Sides

On Wednesday 22 January we welcomed the organisation Solutions not Sides into school to speak to some of our Year 10 RE students and Sixth Form RE/History students...

Yr 8 Stock Market Enterprise Challenge

On Thursday 19th December our Year 8s took part in an Enterprise Day run by the NYBEP (North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership)...

'Get into Teaching' Event

We will be hosting our next 'Get into Teaching' event on February 24th here at Bingley Grammar School from 3.30pm to 5.00pm...

Yr 7 Chocolate Box Enterprise Challenge

On Wednesday 18th December, our Year 7 students took part in an Enterprise event run by the NYBEP (North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership)...

Road Safety Assemblies

At the beginning of the week Mr Atkinson held assemblies for Years 7-10 focussing on road safety...