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St. Aidan's Church of England High School
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Location
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Oatlands Drive, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
Information
TypeState
PrincipalDennis Richards
GradesA-Level - 61% A-B GCSE - 93% A*-C
WebsiteSchool website

St. Aidan's Church of England High School is a mixed Church of England School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It currently houses over 1800 students of both lower school and sixth form age. The school is well known for its academic performance and is well known for its extra-curricular activities, in which it specialises in music, sport and drama.

Notably, the school's Chamber Choir won the 2006 Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year Competition.

The school was labelled as "outstanding" by an Ofsted report in October 2006.

History

St. Aidan's had its foundation stone laid by the former Bishop of Ripon, the Right Reverend John Moorman, on June 18th 1966, and opened in September of that year to provide Church of England education for Harrogate's fast-growing population[1]. Since then, it has grown hugely in pupil numbers.

Building Work

The school has seen vast amounts of building work since its opening. Perhaps most notably was the Constance Green Hall, built adjacent to Bede House, a building converted for the school's use, which was opened in 1997.

More recently, May 2006 saw the opening of a fully re-furbished Learning resources centre, with approximately 15000 resources and 42 computer workstations[2]. The opening was heralded with a "Beatles Night", featuring tribute group the Plastic Beatles.

Coming up in terms of building work will be the complete refurbishment of the sixth form cafe area and old chapel. In it's place will be built a specialist sixth form centre with a new common room. The bottom tennis courts near the music block will be demolished, with classrooms and a new chapel in it's place. The barn will also be demolished, being replaced by new tennis courts.

Awards

The school was made one of the first Beacon Schools in 1998. It also has Speciallist College Science Status[3] and won the International Schools Award from the British Council in 2006.

Catering

St. Aidan's has a reputation in the local area and nationally for an excellent catering department. Since 2002, around £1 Million has been spent on making meals healthier, so that currently around 95% of the school's pupils have school meals[4]. The catering department is led by former hotel chef Trevor Whitehead, and has been awarded National Healthy School Status.

Sixth Form

Main article: St. Aidan's & St. John Fisher Associated Sixth Form

The school forms part of an associated sixth form with St. John Fisher Catholic High School.

References

  1. ^ [1]|http://www.staidans.co.uk/intros/historyofschool.asp
  2. ^ [2]|http://www.staidans.co.uk/depts/library/libraryhomepage.asp
  3. ^ [3]|http://www.staidans.co.uk/PDFs/policiesanddocuments/prospectus0607.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.harrogatetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=17&ArticleID=1207058
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