News
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Wednesday 7 April 2021 Duke's Podcast Launches
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Monday 22 March 2021 Students Celebrate Top University Offers Aldridge sixth-formers and former students are celebrating some impressive university and career offers.
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Monday 8 March 2021 Welcome Back! Its great to see our pupils and students returning to school today. While first day back for different year groups at secondary level is being staggered this week, everyone was back at Sudell Primary School in Darwen with lots of smiles in evidence!
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Thursday 4 March 2021 Happy World Book Day! You can follow all our schools' world Book Day celebrations on our Twitter feed:
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Tuesday 23 February 2021 Khushna's Work To Be Exhibited In Dubai Former Darwen Aldridge Community Academy student Khushna Sulaman-Butt, is celebrating the news that two of her pieces of work have been chosen to be exhibited at the Art Dubai 2021 Fair next year.
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Monday 15 February 2021 Levelling Cricket's Playing Fields Brighton Aldridge Community Academy Director of Cricket Alexia Walker was recently interviewed by the Cricketer Magazine about closing the gaps that exist in state education for young male and female cricketers.
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Monday 15 February 2021 Change Is Coming Year 8 students from across our family of schools have recently been taking part in a virtual Social Leadership One Day Bootcamp organised by the Aldridge Foundation with Future Foundations.
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Wednesday 10 February 2021 Virtual Aldridge Online GCSE Tutoring Service Launches Virtual Aldridge is an online GCSE tutoring service run by Aldridge Education. The sessions are for GCSE English or GCSE Maths and will be taught by expert tutors. The key aim is to prepare students to achieve the best possible grade in the GCSE examinations.
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Monday 8 February 2021 School Switch To Energy-Efficient Lighting Saves Tonnes Of Carbon Emissions A switch to more energy-efficient lighting is expected to save tens of thousands of pounds and tons of carbon emissions at four Aldridge schools.
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Thursday 4 February 2021 Extra Support For Our Students Hardest Hit By The Pandemic Disruption Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph recently two of our Principals gave a flavour of the extra support being given to Aldridge students and their families most at risk of losing out and falling behind during the pandemic school closures.
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Thursday 4 February 2021 Outgoing Trustee Thanked Aldridge Education Chair Brent Thomas has thanked Anand Aithal for his work as a Trustee at the end of his term in office today.
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Wednesday 27 January 2021 Harrison Raises £600 for Darwen Food Larder 11-year old Darwen Aldridge Community Academy student Harrison Waite has raised more than £600 for the Darwen Food Larder by running 100km. around his home town.
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Tuesday 26 January 2021 Changes to Summer Exams 2021 - Advice to Students & Parents Your school's Principal will be writing to you because we now have some more details on what the new system is likely to be. These plans have not been finalised and could change, but we know you will want to know without delay. The key points they will stress are:
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Monday 25 January 2021 Duke's Pays Tribute We have been very saddened to hear the recent news from Duke's Aldridge Academy of the loss of Lloyda Fanusie, a long-serving governor to the academy and its predecessor school, and of Hazeez Ekeolere, who joined Duke's as a geography teacher last September.
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Thursday 21 January 2021 Parents' Guides to studying for exams in 2020-2021 A number of our schools and their parents have found these guides very useful.
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Monday 18 January 2021 Virtual School Library Launches
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Wednesday 13 January 2021 Children of critical workers and vulnerable children who can access school
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Tuesday 12 January 2021 DACA Recognised As Asthma Friendly School Darwen Aldridge Community Academy has been recognised by the regional NHS partnership as an Asthma friendly school.
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Thursday 7 January 2021 Government Announcement Regarding Exams This Year
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Tuesday 5 January 2021 COVID-19: Government Announcement On Schools 04/01/21 Following the announcement by the Prime Minister on Monday 4th of January of new National Lockdown rules, the Department for Education has published more information on how this will affect schools and exams in England on their website.
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Monday 4 January 2021 Best Wishes For 2021 The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
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Tuesday 15 December 2020 The COVID Grinch Is Spotted at Duke's
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Thursday 3 December 2020 DACA Students Runners Up In National Home Design Awards Four students from Darwen Aldridge Community Academy are celebrating reaching the finals of the national Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Design Challenge.
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Thursday 26 November 2020 Academy Retains Its Top 100 Schools For Cricket Status Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) has been named amongst the Cricketer Magazine’s Top 100 Senior Schools for cricket in the country in its Schools Guide 2021.
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Tuesday 10 November 2020 UTC's Science Lead Awarded PhD Congratulations to Dr. Lucie Golton, Subject Lead for Science at the UTC@MediaCityUK, who has been awarded a Doctorate in Education (EdD) from the University of Manchester.
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Wednesday 4 November 2020 Developing The Role of an Effective Governor Our annual conference for governors of Aldridge schools will be a virtual event this year, on Thursday 12th November. Open to all Local Governing Committee members, despite not being able to gather in the same venue this year, we will be using virtual technology to ensure that the conference builds on last year's highly successful event in London.
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Tuesday 3 November 2020 NOVO Goes Live At Duke's In Partnership With The Evening Standard & LCF In 2019 John Lyon’s Charity, the London Community Foundation, Martin Moshal and the Evening Standard formed a partnership called the Excluded Initiative, seeking bids for innovative projects tackling exclusion.
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Tuesday 3 November 2020 UTC@MediaCityUK New Principal Announced Following a period of acting as Executive Principal, UTC@MediaCityUK in Salford has confirmed the appointment of Colin Grand as the college’s new Principal. Colin Grand has been Principal of Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio school since May 2018.
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Thursday 15 October 2020 DACA Students Reach National Home Design Final Four students from Darwen Aldridge Community Academy are celebrating reaching the finals of the national Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Design Challenge.
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