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• Thursday 15 August 2024 A Level Results Day 2024 Well done to all of our Year 13 students on their A-Level results. Fantastic achievements following two years of extremely hard work. We wish you all the very best in your future endeavours.
• Friday 19 July 2024 Year 8 Prize Draw In Year 8 a prize drawer was held, based on attendance and punctuality for the last five weeks of term.
• Friday 19 July 2024 House Championship Winners
• Friday 19 July 2024 Sports Day A big well done to the participants who competed in sports day. There were some outstanding performances with 6 new School records being set in a variety of track and field events! Huge congratulations to Linley House who led by Mr Heeley, won the boys, girls and overall competitions and collected the maximum 200 points.
• Thursday 18 July 2024 Rewards Event A rewards event was held during the last week of term for our best performing students for the year.
• Thursday 18 July 2024 Sixth Form Wear Pink for Cancer Research Year 12 were busy raising money for Cancer Research yesterday. They held a 'pink' day. Can you spot the student wearing the most pink? Mrs Elton came a close second.
• Tuesday 16 July 2024 Careers Event - Employability Skills by the Army Year 9 enjoyed a careers event run by the Army providing them with some essential employability skills such as teamwork, leadership, and communication.
• Tuesday 16 July 2024 Zest Attendance Incentive Last week a select number of Aldridge School students were rewarded with an ice cream as part of the Zest Education attendance incentive.
• Friday 12 July 2024 French Restaurant Trip - Year 8 & Year 9
• Friday 12 July 2024 Year 10 Careers Event - Mock Interview Day
• Wednesday 10 July 2024 Sporting Fixture Results - Summer Term KS3 A-Team - Regional Champions
• Friday 28 June 2024 Cricket Success This week our U13 and U15 teams took part in the Staffordshire softball cricket finals at the prestigious Denstone College.
• Thursday 20 June 2024 Year 7 Royal Navy Helicopter Workshop Year 7 have been taking part in a Royal Navy workshop this week. They have been learning all about the Royal Navy and helicopters. The Royal Navy spoke about their careers before pupils started building their own paper helicopters and engineering them to stay in the air longer. The sessions ended with the students competing against each other to see who had managed to produce the most successful helicopter, determined by which one stayed in the air the longest. Special prizes were also awarded to those who had shown creativity in their designs and excellent engineering skills.
• Thursday 20 June 2024 Year 9 Alternative Work Experience Day Year 9 took part in an ‘Alternative Work Experience’ day, in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority and Urban Hax, looking at the regeneration of the Guildhall in Walsall town centre. Students were informed of the regeneration project taking place at the Guildhall and what the space will become. Students were set the task of coming up with a product which could be created and sold in one of the creative spaces Urban Hax are ultimately creating in the Guildhall, but in the short term in the ‘Meanwhile’ in the Sadlers Centre in Walsall.
• Thursday 20 June 2024 Students at Aldridge School shadow the Yoto Carnegie Medal A group of avid readers in Year 8 have been very busy over the past few months reading, discussing, reviewing, and voting on the eight titles shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal. As part of the shadowing, students explored the criteria used by judges to select a book of outstanding literary quality.
• Wednesday 12 June 2024 BCU Health Practitioners Workshop - Year 10 Aldridge students were given a talk on the wide range of occupations within the field of health, such as physiotherapy, radiography and paramedics. Then they were able to actually experience some of the equipment used to train healthcare workers. CPR dummies, stethoscopes and even a laparoscopy machine were brought in for students to use and demonstrate their skills.
• Wednesday 12 June 2024 Walsall Schools Tournament - Year 10
• Wednesday 12 June 2024 BCU STEM Day - Yr 9 On Thursday 6th June, around 50 Year 9s were involved in a BCU STEM activity. They had to build a self-moving vehicle by joining circuits together. They learned how to follow instructions precisely, work collaboratively, and perseverance when things didn't always go to plan!
• Friday 7 June 2024 Astronaut Visit Friday 7th June On Friday 7th June, Aldridge School was visited by a super special guest...Dr. Don Thomas, former NASA astronaut.
• Friday 24 May 2024 Tennis Success
• Friday 17 May 2024 BCU Poetry Slam Showcase On 8th May, following their four-week 'Memorhyme' literacy project with Richard 'Dreadlockalien' Grant and Alan 'Kurly' Mc Geachie, 12 students were personally selected by both performance poets to showcase their work at the Birmingham City University Poetry Slam Showcase/Recording at their state of the art media space.
• Friday 17 May 2024 Students work with former Birmingham Poet Laureate and renowned performance poet 60 lucky students had the opportunity to work with former Birmingham Poet Laureate Richard ('Dreadlockalien') Grant and renowned performance poet Alan ('Kurly') McGeachie on a 4-week 'Memorhyme' project to improve our students' literacy skills through the use of spoken word poetry and digital platforms.
• Friday 17 May 2024 BCU STEM Day
• Friday 17 May 2024 U15 Staffs Cricket Success
• Tuesday 14 May 2024 U13 Cricket: Aldridge vs QMGS Aldridge U13 cricket team got their season off to a fantastic start with a hard-fought victory against Queen Mary's Grammar School on Monday evening. The team played excellent with a special mention to J. Close hitting 36 not out and S. Wicker who took 3 wickets and 4 catches.
• Friday 10 May 2024 U13 Boys West Midlands County Cup Final
• Friday 10 May 2024 U15 Walsall School Cricket Competition Congratulations to our Under 15 Boys Cricket team who won the Walsall Schools Cricket competition, beating out Walsall Academy and Pool Hayes convincingly!
• Wednesday 8 May 2024 Year 7 Student Completes Race for Life S. Smith (Year 7) completed the 5k, race for life mud run at the weekend. He raised £250 for Cancer Research UK. He embraced every obstacle with enthusiasm. A great effort for a very worth while cause.
• Wednesday 1 May 2024 Year 12 Students Visit Oriel College, The University of Oxford Year 12 students from Aldridge School enjoyed an interesting day at Oriel College, The University of Oxford on the 30th April 2024.
• Monday 29 April 2024 Year 8/9 Girls Football Success Congratulations to our Year 8/9 girls football team who have made it through to the final of the West Midlands County Cup. The final will take place on Wednesday 01st May.

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