News Category: Year 7 News

Over 100 students in Year 7, 8 and 9 have been rehearsing hard for the past few weeks, to put on this year’s Spotlight performance.

Once again, another year of Interform competitions have come to an end and once again the students have been brilliant in their engagement and efforts towards the various sporting events.

Please click on each link below to read the fantastic poetry written by some of our Key Stage 3 students for this year’s Spotlight Poetry Competition.

For Spotlight this year, we have been in search of creative writers in Key Stage 3 to write poems to be performed as Spotlight Drama pieces.

Bee Happy, Bee Creative – together we can be Bee kind!

In their first school competitive cricket fixture the Year 7 team put in a great performance against a very strong Ilkey Grammar side.

Year 7 and Year 9 have been exploring some exciting art projects this half term.

Please click on the timetable below for details of the Extra-Curricular Music happening in school in both June and July, beginning the first week back after half term (week commencing 7th June).

Click here for the latest InTouch newsletter, Issue 7 April edition.

Passionate about reading? Do you see being a writer in your future? This is a five week unique and interactive opportunity for you to connect with thousands of other teen readers across the UK to share in the first virtual book club.

Start The Music is a scheme that aims to encourage more young people to learn a musical instrument. Each year we fund approximately 6 students from St Aidan’s to play an instrument for a full academic year. Applications for 2021 are now open. Click here for further information and how to apply.

The sounds of Year 7 and 8 ensemble musicians can be heard again in school this week!

It was so wonderful to see the Extra Curricular Summer Sports taking place after school yesterday. Athletics, Rounders, Cricket and Tennis were all back for Year 7 to enjoy last night in the afternoon sunshine. Glorious!

The Art Department are pleased to announce the names of the Winners, Highly Commended and Commended entries for the Planner Design Competition 2021 for Year 7 and Year 9.

Years 7, 8 and 9 have enjoyed Interform in the sunshine this week! Year 7 girls have enjoyed football on the astro pitches, Year 8 and 9 girls have competed in Hockey tournaments, whilst Year 7, 8 and 9 boys have battled it out in Interform Basketball!

Testing of students has started today at St. Aidan’s. We have put together our large testing facility in Constance Green Hall and created a short video for the students to view alongside the NHS video of how to complete the test. We would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the setting up […]

In the last two weeks before half term we are going to have a school competition to see which year groups and students can walk/run/cycle the furthest! We would like to see how many times each year group can make it to Lindisfarne, the home of St. Aidan, and back. Lindisfarne is 150 miles away […]

7W have shown fantastic resilience and adaptability in their science learning as we have changed from school learning to home learning and back again several times this year. On Friday 8th January we were due to be learning about calculating pressure. Snowshoes are a great example of how changing the area we are standing on […]

On Friday 18th December, a number of small Christingle services took place for our Year 7 students. This annual event is normally enjoyed as a full year group with parents and carers invited too. As we are not able to do that this year, we hope these photos will help bring it to life.