Appleton Academy

An image of a smiling sun with blue sky and a message to enjoy the summer holidays.

We would like to thank our pupils, staff, parents & carers, governors, trustees and colleagues in the Central Team at Exceed Academies Trust for your support and hard work this year.

We hope you all have a fantastic summer break and we look forward to seeing you all again in September!

The Head of Secondary, Mrs Garlick, has written to parents to mark the end of the school year and look ahead to September 2025. The letter can be found on our website or read via this link: tinyurl.com/46u2286f

Primary Newsletter - Summer 2 2025

Our summer newsletters for both Primary and Secondary are now available in the 'Newsletters' section of our website, or can be viewed via the following links:

Primary - tinyurl.com/4nam2w58
Secondary - tinyurl.com/3crvrs26

Our summer staff read @appletonacademy.bsky.social is #GettingAway by @katesawyer.bsky.social thanks to @readingagency.bsky.social @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social

We will once again be hosting 'pop up' shops on site for our uniform suppliers, Rawcliffes and The Uniform Shop, on Wednesday 9 July 2025 between 8.30am and 3.30pm.
If you would like to get a start on your uniform shopping for September, the pop up shops will be located outside school reception.

Our Transition Day was a great success, and it was wonderful to meet the students who will be joining us in September! 🌟

You were all fantastic and we hope you enjoyed getting a taste of life at Appleton. 💜

We look forward to seeing you all again in September! 👋

#inspirenurturedevelop

As we get ready for the traditional end of school for our Year 11 students with the Prom, we have been celebrating all of their achievements in school during the last 5 years with assemblies & end of year trips. We can't wait to see what they achieve next & wish them all the greatest of luck!

Our @appletonacademy.bsky.social #CarnegieMedals chose their favourite book #TreacleTown by @ConagahanAuthor

Bravo! 👏 👏 👏
To all our brilliant actors in our Midsummer Nights Dream performance! We are immensely proud of you! ✨

@appletonacademy.bsky.social

6SL @appletonacademy.bsky.social enjoyed using microscopes in a Secondary science class to look at plant cells.

Delighted to have received our copies of Super Unicorn Princess @appletonacademy.bsky.social Thanks to @simonandschuster.bsky.social @readingagency.bsky.social @mikehartigan.bsky.social

Our latest anthology launch @appletonacademy.bsky.social takes place this Thursday. 3.15 for primary students and 4.45 for secondary. Contact Mrs Parr if you would like to attend.

Our latest staff reading group reads @appletonacademy.bsky.social #YoungLove and #TheSingleNeighbour Many thanks @uclanpublishing @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @readingagency.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest resources with readers @appletonacademy.bsky.social #TheDoughnutClub Thanks to @nosycrow.bsky.social @readingagency.bsky.social

We have arrived and are seated at the Royal Opera House waiting for the performance of Carmen to start! So exciting! It's a stunning building!

Our Year 9 Scholars have this morning set off to London for an exciting trip to watch Carmen the Opera at the Royal Opera House, before enjoying a visit to the National Art Gallery.

Enjoy your day in the capital Year 9!

Our @carnegiemedals.bsky.social shadowing continues @appletonacademy.bsky.social with our PE teacher, Miss Storey chatting about what she loved about #LittleBang by @kellymccaughrain.bsky.social

Year 7s have started our ukulele scheme of work and what a fantastic start! 🤩 They will be learning a range of songs throughout popular music and mastering the ukulele! Keep it up Year 7! 🎶 @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Some outstanding work from our Year 9 Students who are preparing for Year 10 with an introduction to Macbeth. Our students have been performing, directing and designing the key scenes of the play. ✨✨✨ @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Some of our Year 8 drama students have been making use of our amphitheatre space and exploring chair duets. ✨ @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Our Draw with Chris session @appletonacademy.bsky.social for parents and students is focussing on the alphabet

Here’s a great video of a ‘Day in the Life’ of one of our primary SCITT teachers. Laura is currently in her final stage as an apprentice at @appletonacademy.bsky.social #teachertraining #exceedscitt #bradford #weexceed #primary #newcareer #apprenticeteacher #handsonlearning #newcareer

Students @appletonacademy.bsky.social took part in The Young Poet Laureate programme with @literacy-trust.bsky.social . Ffyon was shortlisted and features in the latest anthology

Students @appletonacademy.bsky.social took part in a county lines writing project with author Christina Gabbitas. Their work has been featured in a special anthology.

Our Chatterbooks club @appletonacademy.bsky.social are enjoying #UsbornePuzzleAdventuresTheGoldenDragon thanks to @usborne @readingagency.bsky.social

Draw with Chris session @appletonacademy.bsky.social for Key stage two families is Thursday 22nd May from 3pm not 23rd!! contact Mrs Parr if you'd like to attend

@appletonacademy.bsky.social continue our #CarnegieShadowing with our science teacher Mr Sroka telling us why he enjoyed #TheFinalYear by the wonderful @mattgoodfellow.bsky.social

@appletonacademy.bsky.social loved entertaining our very special guests for #VEDay thanks to all our armed forces past and present. Tea,poetry and song. A lovely afternoon.

What a wonderful event @appletonacademy.bsky.social held for some of our veterans. Our Appleton Singers performed with some of our brilliant student poets and Year 4 performers! We are truly grateful to all our service men and women 🇬🇧