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Year 10 Work Experience Update
Virtual Work Experience We have attached a letter in relation Year 10 work experience. Please read it carefully. Please note that all Year 10s expected to take part in the virtual work experience week even if they did not have a placement planned. Work Experience Letter to Parents
Newsletter – 22nd May 2020
End of week updates We have attached this weeks newsletter and a letter outlining arrangements for Key worker parents for Week Beginning 25th May 2020. Have a wonderful half term holiday. St Aidan’s Weekly Newsletter – 22nd May 2020 Letter to Parents about Key Worker arrangements for Week Beginning 25th May 2020
Half Term Activities
Half Term Matt Ellis the Centre Director at Derwent Hill has provided some excellent materials which may be really useful over the Bank Holiday period. Please see his message below: All the staff at Derwent Hill are very much looking forward to when young people can return to the centre. In the meantime the Tutors […]
Sunderland Active
Silver Award We have received some excellent news this week. St Aidan’s has been awarded the Silver Award for the Great Active Sunderland Schools Charter. The Charter’ has been developed as an improvement tool and to give credit to those key features of a school that are not always reflected in performance tables i.e. health and wellbeing […]
Mental Health Awareness – Kooth
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. As you are aware from assembly, posters and discussions in school, Sunderland Local Authority have equipped schools with Kooth – a online tool to support mental health and wellbeing. Their website is: https://www.kooth.com/ Along with Kooth we have included other services that are offering virtual or telephone appointments at this […]
Thank a Teacher Day
Say Thank you! Before we went into lockdown many of your sons nominated a member of staff for a ‘teacher of the year award’. These awards have now been postponed until January 2021. This week however, they / you will have the opportunity to show your appreciation of our staff through the National ‘Thank a […]
Possible Reopening of School
Possible reopening Please read the letter below for an update on the possible reopening of school. If you have a son in Year 10 or 12 please also complete a short survey (link in letter). If you have more than one son in Year 10 or Year 12 please complete separate surveys. Possible reopening of […]
Hope in our Community
Art Opportunity Take a look at the ‘Hope in our Community’ project being launched today across a range of secondary schools within the Bishop Chadwick Trust. This is an opportunity for all students and their families to get involved. Take a look…. Hope in our community
Mental Health Awareness Week
18th – 24th May 2020 The nation will be raising awareness of mental health during week beginning 18th May 2020 – the theme this year is ‘Kindness’. In normal circumstances, if we had been at school, we would have been making this our focus for the week, through assembly and tasks in lessons. It is […]
