Senior Pupils

The Holy Cross Senior Pupil Team for 2023/24

All our senior pupils are very active around school and provide outstanding role models for our younger pupils.  They attend official functions, welcome visitors to our school and the team also leads Student Voice by chairing the Student Council and feeding back to Senior Leadership.  It is their primary role to represent Holy Cross on behalf of all pupils and to recommend any changes within school for the benefit of all of our pupils.

Head Girl

My name is Holly Belle and I am proud to be the current Head Girl at Holy Cross for the 2024/25 school year.

My time at Holy Cross has been a journey of discovery and personal growth.  During this time, I have developed skills in leadership and communication and become more confident thanks to the help and support of the school staff.  I have also benefitted from participating in many of the varied school activities.  Holy Cross is a school that encourages its pupils to be their very best and nurtures them both academically and as individuals.  Our school is a great community to be a part of, which has really helped me grow and challenge myself to become a confident, hard-working pupil.

I have been fortunate to play for the Holy Cross school netball team the Emeralds which included participating and winning an annual tournament.  I have also had opportunities to represent the school at various Science and Maths competitions.  During one of our fabulous school History visits to the battlefields of World War I in France and Belgium I had the privilege to lay a wreath at The Menin Gate Memorial on the behalf of the school.  Outside of school I love to play netball for Chorley Infernos where I qualified as a netball umpire and assisted in coaching sessions for younger players.  Participating in all these activities has shown me just how much young people are capable of and what they can achieve with hard work and the right encouragement and support.  I am very honoured to have the opportunity to be Head Girl, I look forward to representing such an amazing school and being a support for fellow pupils.

Head Boy

My name is Austin and I am proud to be the current Head Boy at Holy Cross for the 2024/25 school year.

When I look back to the shy, 11-year-old me who was so scared of starting high school, he now seems like a different person.  Holy Cross has provided me with so many opportunities that have made me more confident and more understanding.  One thing that makes Holy Cross stand out from other schools, is the community – we treat both members of staff and pupils with respect.

I am particularly proud of what I have achieved as part of engineering club, when we built a boat out of plastic bottles that the school had thrown away to help raise awareness of how much we were wasting.  After weeks of testing and improving our prototype, we were able to sail our boat at the Anderton Centre.  What’s more is that we managed to create a lasting impact on how we dispose of our rubbish and received a commendation award at the prestigious Educate North Awards 2024, competing against Universities, Holy Cross was the only Secondary school to be shortlisted.  For my option subjects, I chose History, Spanish and Computer Science.  These subjects have provided me with a broad range of knowledge and have given me the opportunity to take part in trips visiting places such as Krakow in Poland, where we explored centuries old salt mines and saw the atrocities committed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.  I am so grateful to our school for everything that it has given me and I am happy to give back to our community as Head Boy for this academic year.