Holy Cross College & University Centre
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✍️ In the top ten colleges nationwide for University entry
💚 Renowned for enrichment, excellence and support
🎓 On-site University Centre
📍 Based in Bury, Greater Manchester
💚 Renowned for enrichment, excellence and support
🎓 On-site University Centre
📍 Based in Bury, Greater Manchester
Congratulations to our Bar Mock Trial team who finished third out of 14 schools and colleges at the regional heats this weekend.
It's the third consecutive year Holy Cross has placed in the top three at this competition, which is run by Young Citizens to give those aged 15-18 an insight into Law.
It's the third consecutive year Holy Cross has placed in the top three at this competition, which is run by Young Citizens to give those aged 15-18 an insight into Law.
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Congratulations to our Bar Mock Trial team who finished third out of 14 schools and colleges at the regional heats this weekend.
It's the third consecutive year Holy Cross has placed in the top three at this competition, which is run by Young Citizens to give those aged 15-18 an insight into Law.
It's the third consecutive year Holy Cross has placed in the top three at this competition, which is run by Young Citizens to give those aged 15-18 an insight into Law.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them.
Kicking off #AntiBullyingWeek with #OddSocksDay today 🧦
Everyone is welcome at Holy Cross College. We’re very proud to have a diverse student and staff population of all faiths (and those of none).
We think it’s one of the things that makes us special 💚
#PowerForGood
Everyone is welcome at Holy Cross College. We’re very proud to have a diverse student and staff population of all faiths (and those of none).
We think it’s one of the things that makes us special 💚
#PowerForGood
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Kicking off #AntiBullyingWeek with #OddSocksDay today 🧦
Everyone is welcome at Holy Cross College. We’re very proud to have a diverse student and staff population of all faiths (and those of none).
We think it’s one of the things that makes us special 💚
#PowerForGood
Everyone is welcome at Holy Cross College. We’re very proud to have a diverse student and staff population of all faiths (and those of none).
We think it’s one of the things that makes us special 💚
#PowerForGood
Applications to join Holy Cross College in #Bury are now open and close on Monday 1st December.
Apply by the deadline to guarantee an interview with our staff.
Here's how to apply ⤵️
#HolyCrossCollege #Manchester #ALevels #SixthFormCollege
Apply by the deadline to guarantee an interview with our staff.
Here's how to apply ⤵️
#HolyCrossCollege #Manchester #ALevels #SixthFormCollege
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Applications to join Holy Cross College in #Bury are now open and close on Monday 1st December.
Apply by the deadline to guarantee an interview with our staff.
Here's how to apply ⤵️
#HolyCrossCollege #Manchester #ALevels #SixthFormCollege
Apply by the deadline to guarantee an interview with our staff.
Here's how to apply ⤵️
#HolyCrossCollege #Manchester #ALevels #SixthFormCollege
What does a #HolyCross open event look like? Come and see for yourself on Monday 13th October (5pm-8pm)
It's our final Open Event for September 2026 applicants, don't miss out!
🎟️ holycross-bury.com/open-event-t...
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege #SixthForm
It's our final Open Event for September 2026 applicants, don't miss out!
🎟️ holycross-bury.com/open-event-t...
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege #SixthForm
October 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
What does a #HolyCross open event look like? Come and see for yourself on Monday 13th October (5pm-8pm)
It's our final Open Event for September 2026 applicants, don't miss out!
🎟️ holycross-bury.com/open-event-t...
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege #SixthForm
It's our final Open Event for September 2026 applicants, don't miss out!
🎟️ holycross-bury.com/open-event-t...
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege #SixthForm
⏱ #ResultsDay at Holy Cross in 90 seconds... start the clock!
From early morning nerves to proud smiles, together we celebrated the hard work, resilience, and achievements of our amazing students.
✨ Your journey is just beginning, and we couldn’t be prouder.
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege
From early morning nerves to proud smiles, together we celebrated the hard work, resilience, and achievements of our amazing students.
✨ Your journey is just beginning, and we couldn’t be prouder.
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege
August 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
⏱ #ResultsDay at Holy Cross in 90 seconds... start the clock!
From early morning nerves to proud smiles, together we celebrated the hard work, resilience, and achievements of our amazing students.
✨ Your journey is just beginning, and we couldn’t be prouder.
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege
From early morning nerves to proud smiles, together we celebrated the hard work, resilience, and achievements of our amazing students.
✨ Your journey is just beginning, and we couldn’t be prouder.
#Bury #Manchester #HolyCrossCollege
Good luck to all our students collecting their results today! Here's all the information you might need ✅
#ResultsDay #ALevel #ALevelResultsDay #Level3ResultsDay #ExamResults #HolyCrossResultsDay #Bury #Manchester #Advice #Support #Exams
#ResultsDay #ALevel #ALevelResultsDay #Level3ResultsDay #ExamResults #HolyCrossResultsDay #Bury #Manchester #Advice #Support #Exams
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good luck to all our students collecting their results today! Here's all the information you might need ✅
#ResultsDay #ALevel #ALevelResultsDay #Level3ResultsDay #ExamResults #HolyCrossResultsDay #Bury #Manchester #Advice #Support #Exams
#ResultsDay #ALevel #ALevelResultsDay #Level3ResultsDay #ExamResults #HolyCrossResultsDay #Bury #Manchester #Advice #Support #Exams
We are so proud of our Library Assistant, Catherine Kelly, who recently returned to Masaka, Uganda, during our Year of Compassion.
Catherine raised money to sponsor Racheal (12) who now has access to education, stationery, and daily meals.
She also completed a marathon through rural Uganda!
Catherine raised money to sponsor Racheal (12) who now has access to education, stationery, and daily meals.
She also completed a marathon through rural Uganda!
August 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
We are so proud of our Library Assistant, Catherine Kelly, who recently returned to Masaka, Uganda, during our Year of Compassion.
Catherine raised money to sponsor Racheal (12) who now has access to education, stationery, and daily meals.
She also completed a marathon through rural Uganda!
Catherine raised money to sponsor Racheal (12) who now has access to education, stationery, and daily meals.
She also completed a marathon through rural Uganda!
So proud of Grace Robinson from Upper Sixth, who’s on the prestigious British Geological Survey summer internship.
She's spending 6 weeks at BGS headquarters in Nottinghamshire, gaining real-world experience in volcanology, her chosen career path 🌋
Only four UK students are accepted each year 👏
She's spending 6 weeks at BGS headquarters in Nottinghamshire, gaining real-world experience in volcanology, her chosen career path 🌋
Only four UK students are accepted each year 👏
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So proud of Grace Robinson from Upper Sixth, who’s on the prestigious British Geological Survey summer internship.
She's spending 6 weeks at BGS headquarters in Nottinghamshire, gaining real-world experience in volcanology, her chosen career path 🌋
Only four UK students are accepted each year 👏
She's spending 6 weeks at BGS headquarters in Nottinghamshire, gaining real-world experience in volcanology, her chosen career path 🌋
Only four UK students are accepted each year 👏
🎓 96% of our Liverpool Hope University students have achieved a 2:1 or above this summer. Could you be next?
It's not too late to start this Sept, with courses in Health and Social Care, Education, Early Years, SEN and PGCEs all on offer right here in Bury holycross-bury.com/uni-results
It's not too late to start this Sept, with courses in Health and Social Care, Education, Early Years, SEN and PGCEs all on offer right here in Bury holycross-bury.com/uni-results
July 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🎓 96% of our Liverpool Hope University students have achieved a 2:1 or above this summer. Could you be next?
It's not too late to start this Sept, with courses in Health and Social Care, Education, Early Years, SEN and PGCEs all on offer right here in Bury holycross-bury.com/uni-results
It's not too late to start this Sept, with courses in Health and Social Care, Education, Early Years, SEN and PGCEs all on offer right here in Bury holycross-bury.com/uni-results
Today is #ThankATeacherDay 🙂
Here's the message from Sharon Burton, Assistant Principal (Students) to our teaching staff on behalf of the Senior Leadership Team.
#ThankYouTeachers
Here's the message from Sharon Burton, Assistant Principal (Students) to our teaching staff on behalf of the Senior Leadership Team.
#ThankYouTeachers
June 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today is #ThankATeacherDay 🙂
Here's the message from Sharon Burton, Assistant Principal (Students) to our teaching staff on behalf of the Senior Leadership Team.
#ThankYouTeachers
Here's the message from Sharon Burton, Assistant Principal (Students) to our teaching staff on behalf of the Senior Leadership Team.
#ThankYouTeachers
All are welcome, inclusion is our strength 🌈
To mark #PrideMonth at Holy Cross, volunteers from the Holy Cross PRISM group and our SRC (Student Representative Council) have been helping people make bead bracelets at College today 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Great job, everyone! #Pride
To mark #PrideMonth at Holy Cross, volunteers from the Holy Cross PRISM group and our SRC (Student Representative Council) have been helping people make bead bracelets at College today 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Great job, everyone! #Pride
June 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
All are welcome, inclusion is our strength 🌈
To mark #PrideMonth at Holy Cross, volunteers from the Holy Cross PRISM group and our SRC (Student Representative Council) have been helping people make bead bracelets at College today 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Great job, everyone! #Pride
To mark #PrideMonth at Holy Cross, volunteers from the Holy Cross PRISM group and our SRC (Student Representative Council) have been helping people make bead bracelets at College today 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Great job, everyone! #Pride
Here's how we marked #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek:
🍫 Random acts of kindness
💚 #WearItGreenDay
✉️ Positive affirmations
🧶 Crafting for mindfulness
#MentalHealth
🍫 Random acts of kindness
💚 #WearItGreenDay
✉️ Positive affirmations
🧶 Crafting for mindfulness
#MentalHealth
May 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Here's how we marked #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek:
🍫 Random acts of kindness
💚 #WearItGreenDay
✉️ Positive affirmations
🧶 Crafting for mindfulness
#MentalHealth
🍫 Random acts of kindness
💚 #WearItGreenDay
✉️ Positive affirmations
🧶 Crafting for mindfulness
#MentalHealth
#TeamPurple 💜 We honoured the memory of a former Holy Cross student who tragically passed away from epilepsy just weeks after finishing her studies.
Her family has since been working to raise awareness about SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) to help prevent unnecessary tragedies.
Her family has since been working to raise awareness about SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) to help prevent unnecessary tragedies.
May 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#TeamPurple 💜 We honoured the memory of a former Holy Cross student who tragically passed away from epilepsy just weeks after finishing her studies.
Her family has since been working to raise awareness about SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) to help prevent unnecessary tragedies.
Her family has since been working to raise awareness about SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) to help prevent unnecessary tragedies.
May 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
On the eighth anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack, our thoughts are with those who lost their lives, and family members, friends and loved ones whose lives changed forever ❤️🐝
Everyone is welcome in our Chapel at any time throughout today for personal reflection, prayer and to light a candle.
Everyone is welcome in our Chapel at any time throughout today for personal reflection, prayer and to light a candle.
May 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
On the eighth anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack, our thoughts are with those who lost their lives, and family members, friends and loved ones whose lives changed forever ❤️🐝
Everyone is welcome in our Chapel at any time throughout today for personal reflection, prayer and to light a candle.
Everyone is welcome in our Chapel at any time throughout today for personal reflection, prayer and to light a candle.
Well done to Sam from Learning Support who braved the shave to raise money for @littleprincesses.bsky.social at lunchtime today 🪒
Thank you to staff and students for your donations (and those who played barber)
Sam - you're our resident Super Hairo!
Donate: www.justgiving.com/page/holy-cr...
Thank you to staff and students for your donations (and those who played barber)
Sam - you're our resident Super Hairo!
Donate: www.justgiving.com/page/holy-cr...
May 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Well done to Sam from Learning Support who braved the shave to raise money for @littleprincesses.bsky.social at lunchtime today 🪒
Thank you to staff and students for your donations (and those who played barber)
Sam - you're our resident Super Hairo!
Donate: www.justgiving.com/page/holy-cr...
Thank you to staff and students for your donations (and those who played barber)
Sam - you're our resident Super Hairo!
Donate: www.justgiving.com/page/holy-cr...
#WearItGreen for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 💚 fab turnout from our students and staff under this blue, blue sky ☀️
May 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#WearItGreen for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 💚 fab turnout from our students and staff under this blue, blue sky ☀️
Have you tried the Whitney Houston Challenge yet? 🥁 It's harder than it looks...
Thank you to all the students and staff who had a go in their lunch today!
#WhitneyHoustonChallenge #Music #PerformingArts #Bury
Thank you to all the students and staff who had a go in their lunch today!
#WhitneyHoustonChallenge #Music #PerformingArts #Bury
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Have you tried the Whitney Houston Challenge yet? 🥁 It's harder than it looks...
Thank you to all the students and staff who had a go in their lunch today!
#WhitneyHoustonChallenge #Music #PerformingArts #Bury
Thank you to all the students and staff who had a go in their lunch today!
#WhitneyHoustonChallenge #Music #PerformingArts #Bury
We're coming together as a college community this week to mark #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 🧠 and here's what's on across campus.
This year's theme for #MHAW is 'community'. Positive communities support our #mentalhealth by giving us a sense of belonging, connection and purpose 💜
#ThisIsMyCommunity
This year's theme for #MHAW is 'community'. Positive communities support our #mentalhealth by giving us a sense of belonging, connection and purpose 💜
#ThisIsMyCommunity
May 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We're coming together as a college community this week to mark #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 🧠 and here's what's on across campus.
This year's theme for #MHAW is 'community'. Positive communities support our #mentalhealth by giving us a sense of belonging, connection and purpose 💜
#ThisIsMyCommunity
This year's theme for #MHAW is 'community'. Positive communities support our #mentalhealth by giving us a sense of belonging, connection and purpose 💜
#ThisIsMyCommunity
Thank you to the University of #Huddersfield for hosting a taster day for our A Level #Chemistry students 🧪
It was an incredibly valuable experience for our students, who completed an organic synthesis practical and IR spectroscopy 🔬
It was an incredibly valuable experience for our students, who completed an organic synthesis practical and IR spectroscopy 🔬
May 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thank you to the University of #Huddersfield for hosting a taster day for our A Level #Chemistry students 🧪
It was an incredibly valuable experience for our students, who completed an organic synthesis practical and IR spectroscopy 🔬
It was an incredibly valuable experience for our students, who completed an organic synthesis practical and IR spectroscopy 🔬
Congratulations to #HolyCrossCollege Administration Manager Alison Higginbotham who bravely completed the highest skydive available in the UK – 15,000ft – alongside her good friend, Stuart 🪂
Alison’s ‘leap of love’ has so far raised almost £3,000 for Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley 💚
Alison’s ‘leap of love’ has so far raised almost £3,000 for Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley 💚
May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Congratulations to #HolyCrossCollege Administration Manager Alison Higginbotham who bravely completed the highest skydive available in the UK – 15,000ft – alongside her good friend, Stuart 🪂
Alison’s ‘leap of love’ has so far raised almost £3,000 for Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley 💚
Alison’s ‘leap of love’ has so far raised almost £3,000 for Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley 💚
Congratulations to Finlay Pope from Upper Sixth, who took home a bronze medal at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships.
His achievement – hitting the wall in the Men’s 200m Backstroke Junior Final in a PB of 2:02.25 – makes him the fastest 18-year-old in the UK in this event.
🎥 Aquatics GB
His achievement – hitting the wall in the Men’s 200m Backstroke Junior Final in a PB of 2:02.25 – makes him the fastest 18-year-old in the UK in this event.
🎥 Aquatics GB
May 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Congratulations to Finlay Pope from Upper Sixth, who took home a bronze medal at the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships.
His achievement – hitting the wall in the Men’s 200m Backstroke Junior Final in a PB of 2:02.25 – makes him the fastest 18-year-old in the UK in this event.
🎥 Aquatics GB
His achievement – hitting the wall in the Men’s 200m Backstroke Junior Final in a PB of 2:02.25 – makes him the fastest 18-year-old in the UK in this event.
🎥 Aquatics GB
Thank you to our wonderful squad of students and staff who came together for #FootballShirtFriday in support of #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth 👕
To donate please visit: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/holy-cr...
@cancerresearchuk.org @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social #PassItOn
To donate please visit: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/holy-cr...
@cancerresearchuk.org @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social #PassItOn
April 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Thank you to our wonderful squad of students and staff who came together for #FootballShirtFriday in support of #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth 👕
To donate please visit: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/holy-cr...
@cancerresearchuk.org @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social #PassItOn
To donate please visit: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/holy-cr...
@cancerresearchuk.org @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social #PassItOn
We mourn the passing of Pope Francis as a College community 🕯️
Our vision of education at Holy Cross – Think Well, Feel Well, Do Well – is inspired by his address at the Church for Schools Day in 2015.
In our mourning, we give thanks for his life, his leadership, and his legacy.
Our vision of education at Holy Cross – Think Well, Feel Well, Do Well – is inspired by his address at the Church for Schools Day in 2015.
In our mourning, we give thanks for his life, his leadership, and his legacy.
April 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We mourn the passing of Pope Francis as a College community 🕯️
Our vision of education at Holy Cross – Think Well, Feel Well, Do Well – is inspired by his address at the Church for Schools Day in 2015.
In our mourning, we give thanks for his life, his leadership, and his legacy.
Our vision of education at Holy Cross – Think Well, Feel Well, Do Well – is inspired by his address at the Church for Schools Day in 2015.
In our mourning, we give thanks for his life, his leadership, and his legacy.