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80 Trees for 80 Years
Tree Planting Ceremony at Ackworth School, April 28th, 2022Holocaust Remembrance Day this year fell on Thursday 28th April. At Ackworth School we were lucky enough to be joined by very special guest, Ruth Barnett. Ruth was rescued from Germany by the Quakers and spent...
Duke of Edinburgh Diaries
In the last week of the Easter holidays three groups, six being in my own, went to Nidderdale for our silver DofE practice expedition. We set off from Pickering in the morning and walked by the lake for most of the day. I found going uphill at the start of the day the...
Everest Base Camp Challenge with Ciaran Hannington
During March, our very own Ciaran Hannington, a member of staff in the Ackworth School Autism Resource tackled the challenge of trekking to Everest base camp to raise awareness of male infertility. He set off on the trek on 8 March and reached base camp within 2...
AOS London Reunion!
Our AOS London event turned into a charming evening as a group of Old Scholars came together to reminisce and reconnect. Taking place on a Wednesday in the heart of Fleet Street at Daly’s Wine Bar. Joined by leaving years ranging from 1954 to 1978. It...
Supporting Ukraine in Crisis
Images which bring the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine into stark focus probably more than we have ever seen before, flashed across our screens through social media and many other communication streams. These images continue daily; for pupils in our school these are...
Summer Ball 2022 Tickets Now On Sale
Tickets for Ackworth School’s annual Summer Ball are now on sale. Click here to buy tickets now!
Pre-Wedding with Priya
AOS Balpriya Kaur (AOS 10-15) During February the school had a visit from Old Scholar Balpriya Kaur. Priya (23) met her partner, Lakh, at university in Manchester. Now engaged to marry, Priya got back in touch with Ackworth. She couldn’t think of a better place to...
A Great Ackworth Family
Dr. Dorothy Gertrude Walker Robbins, 100, of Wolfville died peacefully on October 15, 2021. The youngest daughter of Frank Walker and Gertrude Andrews, both of whom came to Canada from North Yorkshire, England, she spent her early years happily at Ackworth School at...
Ackworth Old Scholars reunite in Dubai
Back in November 2021, Ackworth Old Scholars came together for the first Old Scholar Reunion in the Middle East. There had been plans in place for this to happen sooner, however the pandemic have prevented the opportunity to connect face to face. Old Scholars Saad...
