NEWS ARCHIVE: March 2022

On Monday 28 March St. Aidan’s took two teams to the Area Tournament at Ashville. Both teams played well with the U13 A Team being winners of the A Area Netball Tournament winning all their matches! Well done to both teams for representing the school so brilliantly.  

Congratulations to Year 9 student Aaron Brompton who has been accepted into the England Hockey Performance Centre Under 15s! Aaron has played as Striker for Harrogate Hockey Club since the age of 9 and has contributed to many significant wins for the team over the years.  He has also played county hockey for North Yorkshire […]

Teams from Year 7-10  travelled to Woodhouse Grove School on Saturday 12 March and played in some tough matches.  With two wins, a last minute draw and a narrow loss, the boys represented St. Aidan’s brilliantly.  Well done to all who played.  

It was great to have a sneaky peak at the rehearsals for Showstarters Back in the Wings – the cast and band sounding fabulous!  We can’t wait to see the finished show (for one night only) at Harrogate Theatre on 25th April. Tickets available from: boxoffice@harrogatetheatre.co.uk  

Constance Green was the venue for a hugely successful Careers Evening on Wednesday 10 March.  Exhibitors from around 40 businesses, colleges, universities and apprenticeship providers offered valuable advice and inspiration about the variety of occupations available for our students in Years 9-13.  

Congratulations to the Under 17s Basketball team which includes students from Year 10-Year 12.  Earlier this week they beat John Leggott College 85-45 winning a place in the quarter finals of the Dynamik National Schools Cup! We are very proud of you all and look forward to seeing how you get on.  

Well done to the Under 12s Hockey A and B teams who played at Harrogate Grammar this week.  The A team won 2-0 and the B team drew 1-1 .  

On Wednesday 9 March, St. Aidan’s hosted nine local secondary schools for the Harrogate and District Librarians Literary Quiz Battle of the Books. Teams were entered from; Harrogate Ladies College, John Smeaton Academy, Harrogate Grammar School, Queen Mary’s School, Ripon Grammar School, King James’s School, St John Fisher RC School, St. Aidan’s C E School […]

Congratulations to the winning teams of the Year 8 Interform Pizza Competition – 8D and 8Y.  The judges were extremely impressed by the high standards of entries this year including 8C who were runners up.  Consultant Chef Steph Moon and former student (and previous winner of the competition) Apprentice Chef, Ollie Wenn found it extremely […]

The Under 15s Netball A team won the Under 15 Area Tournament at Ashville College last week. The B team came 3rd which is also a fabulous achievement! Well done to all the girls who played and to Miss Wadhams for all the support and encouragement you give the team!  

Please click here for February 2022’s edition of InTouch.  

We were proud to give your generous donations to Foodbank yesterday and it was great to have the help of school worship group Aidan’s Flame when packing the produce up.  We hand over to Year 11 this month but all donations are very welcome.  Foodbank do such great work and they provide a minimum of […]

Huge congratulations to our Under 13 Indoor Girl’s Cricket Team who on March 1st returned from their Northallerton Indoor Cricket tournament the champions! Well done to: Eliza, Freya, Millie, Leila, Winnie, India, Alice, Rebecca, Elsie and Annabelle – we are proud of you all!    

Year 7 were treated to a brilliant talk with Children and Young Adult’s author Bali Rai this morning.  Rai invited the children to exercise the brain by reading regularly. He highlighted the benefits reading has on your wellbeing including; higher self-esteem, confidence and an overall feeling of being happy and fulfilled. The children were jokily […]