Sixth Form Open Evening – 23 October 2025

Our Sixth Form Open Evening for 2026 entry will take place on Thursday 23 October 2025 between 5pm and 8pm.

Prospective students are invited to attend our Sixth Form Open Evening for September 2026 admissions. The evening will consist of talks from the Headteacher, the Head of Sixth Form, and provide an opportunity to visit departments to find out more about about out A level courses and see our fantastic facilities.

At Heckmondwike Grammar School Sixth Form, our main aim is to provide the best possible conditions for teaching and learning so that students can reach their full potential both inside and outside the classroom. It’s a place where students are given the tools and support they need to excel academically and grow into well-rounded individuals, ready to take on whatever challenges life throws their way.
A Proud History of Academic Success
 
At Heckmondwike, academic achievement is at the forefront, and our results speak for themselves. Year after year, our students achieve fantastic A-Level results that exceed the national averages. This year, an amazing 85% of students scored A-Level grades of C or higher, and 80% of those grades were A*, A, or B. Eleven of our students picked up three A* grades, and five of our students bagged an incredible four A* grades!
But what’s even more impressive than the statistics is the environment that helps make this possible. The teachers here are committed to helping students reach their full potential, and our ethos of ‘work hard, play hard’ runs through everything we do. Whether you’re aiming for top grades or just trying to be the best version of yourself, you’ll find all the support you need.
One of the things that really sets Heckmondwike Grammar School Sixth Form apart is the sheer number of students who go on to study at some of the UK’s most prestigious universities. This year, 148 students chose to go onto University, of those, 93% managed to get into their first choice which is a phenomenal achievement. 78% were Russell Group Universities. The school has a track record of sending a higher percentage of students to Oxbridge than the national average, with a unique support system in place for those students wishing to apply for Oxford and Cambridge. As Degree Apprenticeship grow in popularity, we are proud to have supported many students to successfully gain placements at KPMG Finance, Mott Mcdonald, Turner & Townsend, Coke Cola, Airbus Engineering and the Ministry of Defence.
All this is credit to how well-prepared students are when they leave us. Having the confidence needed to pursue their dreams, with the knowledge and skills they need to make those dreams a reality.
The Jo Cox Sixth Form Centre: A Space to Learn and Grow
 
When you walk into the Jo Cox Building, you immediately get a sense of what makes Heckmondwike so special. This modern, purpose-built facility is at the heart of Sixth Form life. Whether you’re looking for a quiet study space, an area to learn with friends or a place to hang out, it’s all there. The design of the building encourages both focused learning and social interaction, our students consistently feedback that studying at HGS Sixth Form is like being part of a supportive and friendly community.
One of the best things about Heckmondwike’s Sixth Form is the flexibility it offers. Most students opt to take three A-Levels, and the school provides a wide variety of subjects, so there’s something for everyone. Whether you’re passionate about the sciences, humanities, or arts, you can tailor your studies to suit your future plans.
We proudly provide our students with access to our Sixth Form Pathway Program. This initiative is a real game-changer because it gives them access to specific career-focused guidance in the following pathways:
Oxbridge
Medical Sciences
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Humanities and Arts
Business
Apprenticeship and Employment.
Through talks, seminars, educational trips, and one-on-one guidance, our students can get the insight and experience they need to pursue their chosen career path.
It’s not all about hitting the books, though. Heckmondwike Grammar School is passionate about enrichment, so you’re encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities. Whether it’s sports, arts, or leadership roles, there’s plenty to dive into outside the classroom. These opportunities allow our students to develop new skills, explore their interests, and make friends along the way.
By the time our students leave, they have an impressive academic record and the kind of personal growth that makes a real difference in the world. The school is as much about building character as it is about achieving top grades, making it a special place.
Our incredible teaching staff and dedicated Sixth Form team really know our students, their happiness and welfare are paramount to successful learning, we believe in this. Whether you’re aiming for a spot at a top university, exploring degree apprenticeships and employment…Heckmondwike will give you the tools to succeed.
It’s a community where you’re encouraged to aim high and reach your full potential wherever your passions lie, we are proud to be part of your unique journey

Please visit the Sixth Form area of our website for more information.

In the summer term of the last academic year, seven of our students competed in the UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad (JMO). As the follow-on to the Junior Mathematical Challenge, the JMO tests students’ mathematical and problem-solving skills with a higher level of difficulty. The structure of the 2025 paper was slightly different from previous years, with the removal of the shorter questions and focus being on the longer ones, resulting in what the UKMT feel was a slightly more challenging paper. Our students responded brilliantly to the updates, with Aarush Maniyar (8P2) achieving Merit and Arnav Gupta (8P2) achieving Distinction.
The UKMT also award medals to the highest performing students in the competition. Abdul Cheema (7B2) and Sienna Xu (7H1), pictured left and right, have been awarded Bronze medals for their performance. Both of them were very close to receiving a Silver medal, which is especially impressive considering they were in Year 7 at the time of the JMO. Paarth Vashishta (8P1) (pictured middle left) has also been awarded a Bronze medal for his performance and Yusuf Shah (8C1) (pictured middle right) is one of around 40 students nationally that has achieved the highest award – the Gold medal.
These students have shown incredible commitment to their studies and their rewards are well deserved. On behalf of the Maths Department, congratulations to you all!

Congratulations to all our students on achieving outstanding GCSE results again this year. Indeed the 2025 results are the best ever for the school.

Students are once again to be congratulated for their outstanding successes at GCSE. 84% of grades were awarded at grade 7 or above, and of these 43% were grade 9.

As well as some overall excellent results for the school, with 100% of our Year 11 students securing at least five good GCSE grades, there were also 91% of our students who achieved five or more GCSEs at grade 9-7. In addition, 78% of our Year 11 students secured an impressive eight or more GCSEs at grade 9-7.

There are also some exceptional individual stories. Well done to Phoebe Alexander, Eric Ani, Ananya Chinchalkar, Leanne Lai, Husaina Lokhandwala, Harshith Mavuri, Qandeel Mehmood, Siddhartha Mondal, Praise Nduka-Obiora, Aayush Prakash and David Ukaobasi who all achieved an incredible ten GCSEs at grade 9. Well done also to Noel Crowther, Shreya Patel, Tara Sah, Taha Siddiqui, Om Suryawanshi, Jennifer Tillotson and Vishaka Vijayaruban who all achieved an impressive nine GCSEs at grade 9, along with Simrik Bohara, who not only also achieved nine GCSEs at grade 9 but was also the highest performer in OCR’s GCSE Design and Technology this summer.

These excellent results do not just happen automatically. They are evidence of the exceptional commitment and determination of Heckmondwike’s students who received outstanding support from the dedicated staff and hugely supportive parents.

Some impressive overall statistics include:

766 grades awarded were grade 9.

116 students with ten or more 9-7 grades

160 students with eight or more 9-7 grades

187 students with five or more 9-7 grades

My congratulations and well done to you all.

Congratulations to all our students on achieving outstanding A level results again this year.

As always the profile of our grades shows a very strong bias towards the upper range of grades. 82% of the A Level results were at grade C or better and 80% of these grades were either A*, A or B.

There were 260 A* and A grades altogether, including 47 students that achieved 3 or more grade A* or A passes. Extra special mentions go to Mohammed Ahmed, Ayan Gupta, Suchir Gupta, Arnav Maniyar and Rishi Mikkilineni who achieved 4 A* grades. Further congratulations go to Cora Bromby, Luke Drury, David Grigorjanc, Safa Khawar, Daniel Lilley, Zahra Mahdi, Oliver Marques, Mohamad Mobayed, Roshni Pahal, Zoiya Shahzad, Anish Srikanth and Sadie Tidswell who achieved an incredible A* grade in 3 A Level Subjects.

These superb results reflect the hard work and dedication of our students and staff, and will enable the students to take their next steps with confidence. The outcomes in terms of students being placed at universities and high calibre apprenticeships of their choice are exceptionally good this year.

My congratulations and well done to you all.

Our Music and Drama Department is proud to present Shrek the Musical.

Join us on 8th, 9th or 10th July 2025.

Tickets on sale now https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/heckmondwike-grammar-school/e-vxrboz

 

We are delighted to invite you to one of our open evenings on Wednesday 18 or Thursday 19 June. The evenings are aimed at parents and their children currently in school year 5.

Register for the entrance exam before 12 noon on Monday 23 June 2025.

We are delighted to be a lead school for the West Yorkshire Music Hub.

The School Engagement Strategy is supported by the Lead School Programme that was launched in May 2025 as a new network of 18 schools from across all 5 local authority areas made up primary, secondary, post 16 and SEND/Alternative provision. The core purpose of a Lead School, as set out in the NPME, is to champion music education, developing and nurturing local school relationships and networks as part of and on behalf of the Hub. Lead Schools are expected to supplement, not replace, the role of the Hub.

Lead Schools should act as an ambassador for music education, and model behaviour and practice expected from schools in relation to music. Lead Schools are a key partner within the Hub and help with engaging schools within the Hub area, demonstrating and advocating for the vital role schools will play in ensuring the success of the NPME.

The role and purpose of these is to:
• Be a champion for music education and an open door to other schools and settings across the region

• Help all schools in the LA area to improve the quality of music (curricular, cocurricular and extra-curricular) and be a champion for Music Education
• Facilitate new and better ways for teachers to support each other and work together
• Help the WYMH Advisory Group to understand what schools need and how to work better with them to improve musical outcomes for children and young people
• Support the WYMH Advisory Group to understand what musical opportunities young people want and need and be a 2-way conduit for the voice of young people
• Be an additional beacon for an area that they believe to be strong e.g. Music Technology, Vocal Work, GCSE, Musical Futures, Extra-Curricular, Assessment & Recording etc.


The Lead School Network is currently shaping their offer of support for West Yorkshire which will commence from September 2025. We will update details on this page as the programme develops.

Lead Schools from Summer 2025
• Burley Oaks Primary School
• Cliffe Hill Community Primary School
• Dixons City Academy
• Grove Lea Primary School
• Halfpenny Lane Primary School
• Heckmondwike Grammar School
• Highbury Specialist School (SEND)
• Immanuel College
• Kettlethorpe High School
• Kingsland School (SEND)
• North Halifax Grammar School
• Oastlers School (SEND)
• Old Town Primary School
• Riddlesden St Marys CE Primary School
• Roundhay School
• Shelley College
• Thornhill Junior and Infant School
• Westerton Primary Academy

It was our great pleasure to watch 4 of our drama students in BCP Youths production of the classic musical Les Misérables, at the Ukranian Club in Bradford. Oliver Blakely, Blossom Palmer, Ben McNally and Tilly Kaye stunned the audience in this powerful and moving production complete with amazing singing, intense acting and immersive design.  These students are definitely ones to watch out for. We even got their autographs at the stage door!
Congratulations to Oliver, Blossom, Ben and Tilly for representing HGS Drama superbly! Take a bow!
Mr Tennant, Mrs Hellewell, Miss Gibb and Mrs Goulding

The RSC chemistry Olympiad exam was undertaken by our chemists again this year, this exam is for the more able chemistry students in year 13, however this year it was opened up to promising year 12 students who wanted to enter too. This is a very demanding Chemistry exam which takes curriculum content a step further and looks at real world examples and scientific problems. Due to time constraints this year the students haven’t had as much time to prepare so the results are a testament to their ability!

31 Students 8 x year 13 student and 23 x year 12 A-level chemistry students attended the Royal Society of Chemistry Olympiad exam that took place on Thursday 25th January 2024 within school led by Mrs Noble.

All of the students will be awarded a certificate with a significant number achieving silver and gold awards.  The exam this year was out of 83 and to achieve a bronze this year the candidates required a score of 9 for bronze, 16 for silver and 29 for gold.

In total we have 14 x Bronze, 11 x Silver, 2 x Gold and 4 participation certificates. These results are outstanding, especially for our Year 12 students, who have not yet covered much of the course material needed for the Olympiad exam. A special shout-out goes to Ayan Gupta, one of our exceptionally talented Year 12 students, who, despite not studying A Level Chemistry, managed to secure a gold certificate for the second consecutive year with an impressive score. Another notable mention is Yawei Li, who also achieved a gold certificate for the second year in a row.

Name Year group Certificate
Harun Nawaz 12 Silver
Yawei Li 13 Gold
Ayan Gupta 13 Gold
Talha Zubair 13 Silver
Haris Fazal 12 Silver
Eesa Mirza 12 Participation
Usman Imran 12 Silver
Syeda Nusaiba 12 Bronze
Bhavya Trivedi 13 Bronze
Ayaana Zamir 12 Bronze
Sarah Tanveer 12 Bronze
Midhulasa Shri Suraj Kumar 12 Participation
Caitlin Tolan 12 Silver
Anas Moeen 12 Bronze
Alec Manby 12 Bronze
Ananya Tantry 12 Silver
Catherine Fan 12 Silver
Rachel Gan 12 Silver
Hamayl Khan 12 Bronze
Aryan Younis-Butt 12 Bronze
Hareem Ghouri 12 Bronze
Zahra Madhi 13 Silver
Simren Saleem 13 Bronze
Kate Moulton 12 Bronze
Gursimran Notay 12 Silver
Abdul Rehman Aziz 12 Silver
Eva Carey 12 Bronze
Ahmed Elsabbagh 12 Bronze
Zara Akhtar 12 Participation
Samhita Santosh 12 Bronze
Rakshith Rathish 13 Participation
Anish Srikanth 13 Silver

Our year 13 students have been celebrating some wonderful career opportunities over recent weeks, particularly these 8 students holding offers to study at Oxford or Cambridge, which as a proportion of the year group is more than double the national average and other Kirklees providers. A huge congratulations to Anish Srikanth, Daniel Grigorjanc, Mohammed Ahmed, Zahra Mahdi, Chidubem Oseme, Ayan Gupta, Yawei Li and Rishi Mikkilieni.

Sam Jones and Lucy Webb are also celebrating their achievements in securing sought after degree apprenticeships. Sam is holding such an offer with AirBus and Lucy with KPMG.

Mr Roberts has complimented all other A level students who are typically going on to similarly exciting career opportunities and wished them a

All the very best with their forthcoming exams.