Holy Family Catholic Academy

Last week, children got to learn a little about the Eurovision Song Contest! The grand final 2026 was on Saturday and it was the 70th anniversary of the competition.

We learned about the history of the competition and that it was started to bring people together through music after World War 2. This links with our Catholic Social Teaching of solidarity.

The winner is chosen through a voting system which links with our British Value of democracy. Lots of countries with different cultures and languages are invited to compete which makes it very diverse and inclusive so we linked this to our British value of mutual respect.

But more importantly, we had fun hearing a range of Eurovision songs and singing and dancing along! Did you watch at the weekend?

Year 3 were very lucky to get a place at the Wigan Borough Dance Festival recently. They had spent their PE lessons throughout spring term learning a dance to perform with a dance instructor. On the day of the festival, we spent the day taking part in dance workshops and rehearsals for the evening show. We also learnt a new dance with all the other schools that were there, which was for the show's finale! It was a truly amazing experience for all involved!

This was our Catholic Social Teaching values in action - Solidarity. Solidarity of staff across school working together, solidarity of parents supporting school and bringing children to perform in the evening show and the coming together of schools from across the borough.

Gospel of John 10:10
“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

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Before Easter, Year 3 took some time to thank some of the people around school that help us. These people don't always get the recognition and the thanks that they deserve, so we wanted them to know how much staff and pupils appreciate them!

Everyday, they take action for the common good in the work that they do.

Matthew 25:40
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

We are recruiting!
Are you, or anyone you know, looking to transform children’s lives through a world-class Catholic education? Then teaching at Holy Family could be the place for you!

We have three permanent Key Stage Two Class Teacher vacancies and one temporary (potential to be made permanent) Early Years Class Teacher vacancy.

Please ring our school office to book onto one of our look around school sessions:
Monday 11th May at 3:45pm- Key Stage Two look around
Tuesday 12th May at 3:45pm- Early Years look around

Applications to be made through the links below

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Thank you to Be Well Wigan Dr Bike for checking over our children’s bikes today to ensure they are safe to ride. Perfect timing for our Year 5’s Bikeability sessions next week.

This week our school leadership team went shopping to get prizes for our new behaviour/rewards system!

We are excited to see who are the first prize winners are!

On Thursday the whole school stopped to remember St Joseph on his feast day. We started the day going to Mass, our children behaved brilliantly and made us so proud with reading and singing. Back at school each class then learnt about St Joseph and what values he taught us.

We also linked this into being part of St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust and what this means to us as a school.

At the end of the day, children from each class presented their learning and shared what they had learnt about and from St Joseph.

Today we celebrate Miss Fitzgerald! Last night Miss Fitzgerald won the Early Years Practitioner Apprentice of the Year Award at the Wigan and Leigh College Awards evening.

We are all immensely proud of Miss Fitzgerald, she has been a part of Holy Family, most of her life, coming here as a pupil, sending her own children to school and now working here in our 2 Year Old Nursery and After-school club.

Miss Fitzgerald gained a distinction in her Level 2 apprenticeship and is now working towards her level 3.

Miss Fitzgerald is loved by children and staff alike, she was certainly born to work with children and we are so pleased that she is a member of .

Congratulations Miss Fitzgerald, your hard work, dedication to learning and commitment to our school is an example to us all. Well done!

We had a lovely time celebrating Mother's Day in our 3-year-old nursery last week!

A huge thank you to all our wonderful special adults who came along to join us for a Mother's Day stay and play. It was so special for the children to share breakfast, spend time together, and celebrate the amazing people in their lives.

We hope you all enjoyed the morning as much as we did. thank you for taking the time to be part of such a lovely celebration!

Thank you to our Monday craft club who have created these beautiful stained glass crosses that have been put up around school.

The artwork is a reminder of keeping Christ at the centre during this Holy time of Lent.