HOLY Week was celebrated at a Keighley school in advance to ensure pupils and staff could take part before the Easter holidays began.

The religious observances at Holy Family Catholic School were led by year seven leaders James Moreland and Gemma Bennett.

Year seven students took a traditional prayer – called the Stations of the Cross – and presented it as a narrative with tableaux for each of the 15 stations.

A spokesman for Holy Family explained: "The Stations in a church are normally only 14 in number, the fifteenth – The Resurrection – being represented by the church building itself.

"The Stations tell the story of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus through 14 'freeze-frames' of specific events of the last few days of Jesus’s earthly life.

"These include his trial and condemnation to death, carrying the cross, falling three times on the journey to Calvary, meetings with his mother Mary and the women of Jerusalem, and Veronica who wipes the blood and sweat from his face.

"They also feature Jesus being stripped of his clothes, nailed to the cross and dying, his body being taken down and laid in the tomb, and finally his resurrection."