This week at AHS we have been raising awareness for healthy heart week! Year 8 have taken on board brilliantly the impact of what CPR can have on family and friends. They are all now aware of how important it is to make healthy lifestyle choices. Well done Year 8!

Lovely to see Y8 children back enthusiastic and ready to learn. This week we have been focusing on the importance on having your say as part of our whole school focus on parliament and democracy!

It has been Anti Bullying Awareness week at AHS. Year 8 have explored in assembly why bullies bully, exploring how we can use school values to support bullies to change there ways.

Year 8 have done well with bringing in their pamper items for the Christmas fayre. This is our second Christmas event and hopefully we will raise lots of money for those in our community as well as in school.

Year 8 pupils were given there taster day timetable to look at for Tuesday the 28th of January. We look forward to it being a fantastic day and helping students with their choices!

A great week for year 8! We have had a large number of students involved in the school musical: 'we will rock you'. If you have not seen the production and our wonderful year 8s, it is our last performance this evening, starting at 7 o'clock.

Well done to all year 8s who have been working hard over the last two weeks. Some of you have been amazing! Don't forget to keep reading though over the Easter break and quizzing on accelerated reader. I would like to congratulate the following....

Robyn McDermott Sophia Nicolle Penelope Perring Joshua Smith Flo Wakeling Imogen Price Imogen Morris Tyler O'Brien Zoe Williams Fantastic efforts but we need more of you quizzing- come on Year 8, you can do it! Mrs Edmondson & Miss Clark

Year 8 Creativity! It is wonderful to hear and see how some year 8s are being creative with their time at home. Well done to Emily-Sue Toye in 8MSt for her cake to celebrate the hard work and bravery of the NHS. It looks Fantastic and very yummy too!

A huge well done to the many students who have been completing some of the optional Easter tasks, but especially to the following for continuing to read and ‘quiz’......

Sophia Nicolle, Zoe Cardy, Imogen Price, Ben Riley, Ella Gebbie, Megan Wilkie, Josh Botha, Imogen Morris and Isaac Moore. Fantastic! Mrs Edmondson and Miss Clark

A special message from Miss Gray: 'I just wanted to say how pleased I am with the work submitted from my Year 8 class on google classrooms. A special mention to: Lois Connell Max Denton Robyn Mcdermott Aaron Smith Josh Smith ……...

Oliver Archibald Franchesca Lawson Amy McGrath Kate Newton Chloe Gill Well done year 8 keep up the brilliant work.

Well done to our wonderful year 8 reading quizzers this week: Kate Newton, Martha Shakeshaft, Ella Gebbie and Megan Wilkie. Let’s get more of us reading and quizzing next week! Come on boys, where are you?

Keep following the Year 8 google classroom for daily updates, challenges and riddles. It is also a lovely way to keep in touch with peers.....

Also congratulations to Val Leopold and Isaac Cook for their impressive work in English this week! Keep it up Year 8s; you are doing brilliantly and Mrs Edmondson and Miss Clark are very proud.

Mrs Edmondson and Miss Clark are so impressed with how well Year 8s are managing to work at home. Special mention to Mazen (8Ata) for his outstanding work in Maths over the last couple of weeks. Well done!

Year 8 are now back working hard, which is excellent to see. The students should also keep checking our Year 8 notices google classroom for updates, thought for the week and daily messages from their Head of Year including a video message once a week. Mrs Edmondson Miss Clark

Great to see so many year 8s joining in on our ‘Friday Riddle Challenge’ in the year 8 google classroom today! Look out for the answer on Monday morning. Special mention to Logan Fogg, Imogen Morriss and James Tapper for exceptional home learning effort in Maths this week.

It has been a really positive start from Year 8 after they have now completed their full set of lessons. Keep an eye out for all the extra-curricular opportunities on offer from staff in the extra curricular timetable. Some of these are exclusive to year 8.