Thailand triumph for Year 11 gold medallist

Thailand triumph for Year 11 gold medallist

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School pupil Daniel Calderbank has been crowned World Champion at the WMF World Muay Thai Championship 2024. Competing for the prestigious title, Daniel joined fighters from over 40 countries for the finals in Bangkok, Thailand before...
Spring Edition of The Squirrel

Spring Edition of The Squirrel

BRGS’s student newspaper, The Squirrel, has published its Spring 2024 edition which continues with the engaging articles, interviews and creativity shown in the first edition in Autumn/Winter. Faced with tight deadlines in a short Spring term, The Squirrel team...
Spring Edition of The Squirrel

BRGS Student Newspaper – The Squirrel

This academic year BRGS’s student newspaper, The Squirrel, has returned after a ten-year absence with a new look, engaging articles and the best of student journalism at the school. Students requested that the school newspaper returned as an extracurricular club...
Winter Gift Programme

Winter Gift Programme

Throughout the Winter Gift campaign, BRGS will support the most vulnerable members of our community and focus on two themes: spreading kindness and tackling food poverty. We will be spreading kindness by collecting for the Rossendale Gift Box Programme, asking for...
Open Event Dates for September 2024 Admissions

Open Event Dates for September 2024 Admissions

Our Open Evenings are a chance for prospective pupils and their families to see our Academy in action. With exciting displays, in-class demonstrations and activities, they are a great opportunity to meet our pupils and speak to members of our staff in detail about the...
BRGS begins bright new chapter as part of Star Academies

BRGS begins bright new chapter as part of Star Academies

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (BRGS) has joined Star Academies following an extensive consultation process with governors, parents and senior leaders at the school. The transfer to Star Academies heralds a new chapter in the school’s illustrious 110-year...
Celebrations for BRGS pupils after exceptional GCSE results

Celebrations for BRGS pupils after exceptional GCSE results

Pupils at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School (BRGS) are celebrating exceptional GCSE outcomes after results returned to pre-pandemic grading standards.   Despite the disruption to learning over the past few years, exams were marked and graded in the normal way this...