Our desire is to successfully develop the whole child. We place considerable emphasis on developing the foundations of personal achievement; their emotional and physical health and well-being, their social, moral, spiritual and cultural development, creativity and individuality. Our intention is to help our young people grow to become outstanding, independent, resilient and effective citizens in an uncertain, global 21st Century world. We strive to deliver a personalised curriculum alongside a rich offer of extra-curricular activities, enrichments and life skills for all our students. Naturally, academic progress and attainment are also extremely important to us, and you will find our results reflect this. This is due to a total commitment to excellent teaching and learning by a highly skilled and dedicated staff, constantly reflecting upon and developing their own practice. Many members of staff are former pupils.
Headteachers message
Welcome to Alder Grange
Our school is a unique and special place. There is a real sense of family and community within the school. Alder Grange is a school where everybody is inspired to be the best they can, where excellence is nurtured by everybody and a community in which everybody cares.
Our school is inclusive in nature and values young people of all abilities from year 7 to year 13. We encourage them to care for one another and the school, to work as a team and to take on leadership roles. There is also a genuine care for and partnership with the young people in our care and their families.
Our current priorities in school include a focus on wellbeing, particularly mental health for both staff and pupils. The development of a curriculum intent that ensures all pupils are able to develop their knowledge and passions is taking place within all subject areas in school. During the seven years our pupils are with us they are given the skills and access to opportunities needed to make the next steps in to their adult lives. As a school we are never quite satisfied and build ongoing self-evaluation in to the school calendar to allow us to constantly review and reflect on our practice in order to improve.
Alder Grangers are rightly proud of their school and our often repeated phrase, ‘once an Alder Granger always an Alder Granger,’ reflects the strength of feeling our young people have for their school.
I have been a member of staff at Alder Grange since 1998 and I feel immensely proud and privileged to be Headteacher. I love the school and am passionate about ensuring it continues to go from strength to strength.
You would be welcome to visit and see our wonderful school in action at any time.
Joanna Griffiths
Headteacher
Calendar
Year 12 Work Experience week
July 8 @ 08:00 AM - July 12 @ 05:00 PMActivity Week
July 16 - July 18
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We are putting together displays of posters in school, highlighting the career journeys of our former students, with aims to inspire our current students and help foster a sense of community. If you are interested in having your own journey since leaving Alder Grange highlighted as a source of inspiration for our current students, please get in touch! ![]()
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A big congratulations to our Tom B from Year 9, who over the weekend took part in the WKA World Championships in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and took home two gold medals for Full Contact and Light Contact Kickboxing, as well as a bronze in Boxing! We are all so proud of his performance, and look forward to seeing what the world champ does next! 💙
A huge congratulations to our Dance and Cheerleading teams, who took part in the National Schools Cheer and Dance Championships recently! 50 students made up the 5 competitive teams who have worked extremely hard all year in preparation. ![]()
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At the Belle Vue Sports Village in Manchester, over 40 schools from across the UK gathered to compete, but first up from Alder Grange was our KS3 Pom Dance team: "Adrenaline". Competing in the largest category of the day, and up against 14 other teams, they put on an amazing show and placed 1st! Followed up shortly after by our Street Dance teams, KS3's "Typhonic" and KS4's "Ferocity" both also with gold medal performances! (Ferocity actually walked away as the highest scoring dance team of the whole event! 💙)![]()
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Then the cheerleaders took the floor, with our KS3 team "AG Cats" giving one of the strongest routines of the day, an outstanding performance that would have been gold placement if not for a slight score deduction. Our KS5 team, "AG Tigers", then put on an amazing show, choreographed by our Y12 students, Missy-Lou and Amelia. Even despite technical problems midway through, the crowd helping and counting time along with the true professionalism of the squad meant they didn't miss a beat and also took 1st Place! And not to be outdone, Zak did a fantastic job as our cheeky chimp mascot representing Alder Grange in the mascot showdown! 🐵![]()
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We are so proud of each and every one of our students who took part and the amazing results! We'd also like to give a massive thank you to all the parents and guardians of these fab students for all of their continued support. (With an especially big shoutout to Ava's Dad for providing the snacks and water that fuelled our athletes throughout the day!)![]()
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Zak the cheeky chimp also did a fantastic job of representing Alder Grange as this years mascot in the mascot showdown. Massive thank you to all of the pupils and their parents/guardians for all of their continued support and a special thank you to Ava's Dad at Tesco Rawtenstall for supplying us with Water and snacks to help our athletes throughout the day. 💙
