StAidans Onwards

This wonderful celebration is happening this evening at The Royal Hall! There are still tickets available from Harrogate Theatre Box Office and we’d love to see you there! ⭐️🎹🎺🎷💃🏻🎤

The Brodsky Quartet will be in school on Tuesday 28th June, giving a masterclass for some of our young string and piano players, with other instrumentalists and music students forming the audience. In the evening the quartet will present a superb concert, with an exciting programme of Purcell, James MacMillan, Shostakovich and Ravel. We warmly invite the St Aidan's community to come along to this concert, sponsored by St Aidan's Music Association, at St Wilfrid's Church at 7.30.pm, and which will also be the opening concert of the Harrogate International Summer Music Festival. Tickets will be available for the evening concert from Harrogate International Festivals via their website.

https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/whats-on/brodsky-quartet-28-june-2022/

St Aidan's Chamber Choir, one of the school’s best loved and prestigious musical ensembles, is 30 years old this year! To mark its anniversary we will be holding a spectacular evening concert at Ripon Cathedral on Saturday April 2nd. This great occasion will bring together all three of our current school choirs, the Symphony Orchestra and a ‘Choir of Choirs’ made up of former members. We are pleased to say that many former members of the choir have already agreed to be there, along with Cathy Roberts, former Director of Music at St Aidan’s, who founded the choir in 1992, and Greg Beardsell, a founder member of the choir and now a well-known professional conductor and TV presenter.

Additionally, we would like to invite the wider St Aidan’s community to participate as singers or players in the Community Chorus and Orchestra for some massed items, including Haydn’s “The Heavens are Telling”. As with its last appearance at St Aidan’s Golden Jubilee three years ago, this is open to all parents, carers, staff, students or anyone else with a St Aidan’s connection. There will be 3 evening rehearsals at St Aidan’s (15th, 21st and 29th March) and an afternoon rehearsal at the cathedral. If you would like to be part of this great occasion please email [email protected] with the subject CC30 and we will send further details.

Friday evening was the Associated Sixth Form Leaver’s Ball. It was great to see friends reunited and looking fabulous!

Year 13 Leavers’ Ball. We are very excited to see those students who left in the summer and have purchased tickets for the Ball this Friday 7pm at the Pavilions of Harrogate. In the current climate, we ask that you all take a lateral flow test prior to attending. Please do not attend if you feel unwell or have Covid symptoms. Many thanks.

Friends of St Aidan's are raising money for a new mini bus at school. On September 11th 2021 they will be hiking the Harrogate Ringway, a 20 mile circular route around the Harrogate area. The walk is challenging but with splendid views of the Yorkshire countryside along the way, it is a fantastic experience and brings a great sense of achievement on completion.

If you would like to donate please follow the link below.

Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us and our children who attend the school.

FOSA walk the Harrogate Ringway, organized by Friends of St Aidans (FOSA) Friends of St Aidan's are raising money for their school. On September 11… Friends of St Aidans (FOSA) needs your support for FOSA walk the Harrogate Ringway

From school to surveyor: FSS support work experience teen to property career dream - The Stray Ferret When Adam Crawfurd-Porter took on a week's work experience at FSS in February 2013, he was a nervous teenager in his final year of school at St Aidan's in Harrogate. Little did he know, 8 years later, he would still be with the firm - supported every step of the way in his ambitions to become a full...