What a lovely event celebrating creative arts! Thank you to all those who attended this evening and supported our students, some who have never performed before today! It was a pleasure to watch you all perform and to admire the amazing artwork in our school! @appletonacademy.bsky.social

So good to see our students collaborating with Bradford Colleges and working with professionals in the industry at the Creative Futures event! Hopefully inspired some future creatives from Appleton! @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Our Year 10s are very happy to take part in Creative Futures at the Alhambra Theatre and met inspirational Bradfordians, including actor award winning actor Shaun Thomas, writer of BBC Drama Virdee Amit Dhand and actor, comedian and writer Jessica Knappet. @appletonacademy.bsky.social

We had a fantastic singing assembly with Year 6 on transition day! What a talented bunch of singers, can’t wait for next year! ✨

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

Last chance to book you Midsummer Nights Dream tickets! Scan the QR code or click the booking link below! 👇 @appletonacademy.bsky.social eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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

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 🇬🇧

We're delighted to report that Appleton Academy won the Secondary School of the Year Award at the T & A Education Awards on Thurs 3 April! This fantastic achievement is testimony to the community we have become over the last 15 years and all of us can be proud of our contribution!

So many fantastic things taking place @appletonacademy.bsky.social. Find out here in the school magazine! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ issuu.com/appleton_aca...

Bradford School Proms 2025! Appleton Singers and Theatrical Society took to the stage at St. George’s Hall ✨ We are so proud of our young people and how they represented Appleton both on and off the stage. 🎶✨🎭✨ @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Bradford Schools Proms! Wednesday 26th March! Appleton Academy have 2 groups in the proms this year and our very own Dallas will be performing a solo for the Bradford Secondary Choir! We can’t wait! 🤩 @appletonacademy.bsky.social Tickets: www.bradford-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/sch...

An amazing opportunity for Year 10 & 11! Gain some live music experience at The Piece Hall this summer! @appletonacademy.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/1FMM...

Have you seen our poster outside the Performing Arts department introducing you to female composers in support of Women’s History Month? Come and have a look! ✨ @appletonacademy.bsky.social

We are so pleased to offer the Music Technology option as part of the EDUQAS Performing Arts programme! We can’t wait to see what our Year 10s produce! @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Another interview with an inspiring female composer and A-Level musician Annabel Baxter. Have a look at what Annabel enjoys most about studying music. @appletonacademy.bsky.social www.icancompose.com/interview-wi...

National Careers Week - RE The kids loved learning about Stormzy's journey and listening to Gospel Music @appletonacademy.bsky.social #ncw

Year 10 Performance Exams are finished! Well done to all our students who put all that time and energy into rehearsing! It clearly paid off with those brilliant performances! 👏 👏 👏 @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Bradford City of Culture is offering so many opportunities for us all to attend, lots of free, family friendly activities! Check out what they have going on here: bradford2025.co.uk @appletonacademy.bsky.social

It’s Women’s History Month! We’ll be posting about some inspiring female artists this month. Let’s kick start with an interview with Shruthi Rajasekar. Click the link below to learn more! ✨ @appletonacademy.bsky.social www.icancompose.com/interview-wi...

AUDITION CALL for a local performance! 🎭 @appletonacademy.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/166P...

Young Songwriter Competition 2025. Feel free to speak to someone on the music department for more information and advice about how to apply if you want to try your hand at songwriting & don’t forget our Thursday lunchtime composing club! @appletonacademy.bsky.social www.songacademy.co.uk/says25/

A real opportunity at the Piece Hall for Teen Advisors! We know some future leaders who can make a real difference! Get your applications in! @appletonacademy.bsky.social Facebook www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ydn... Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DFnY_BUzcs... X x.com/ThePieceHall...

We love the sound of focused rehearsals in the morning! Year 7 you are working brilliantly on scripted performances and characterisation! Keep up the great work ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @appletonacademy.bsky.social

What a great turn out for “Pop’n’Sing”! From 7 to 11 you came ready to sing your hearts out today! 👏 👏 👏 Check out this article on the benefits of singing from the Sing Up foundation! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @appletonacademy.bsky.social www.singupfoundation.org/singing-heal....

We’re so pleased to see so many pupils joining our extra-curricular groups! We have a special performance coming up that we can’t wait to share with you but for now…remember this classic? One of our groups is working on this! Enjoy! 🎶 @appletonacademy.bsky.social youtu.be/HhHwnrlZRus?...

Year 10 musicians are preparing for their performance and composing assessments. We can see them here conducting independent practise and striving to achieve their best performance! We can’t wait to listen to the final products! Keep it up Year 10s! 👍🏻 @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Well done all our students who took part in the casting Workshop this morning! We had a large number of talented students take part and you all represented our school brilliantly! Best of luck and don’t forget Saturday 8th February to apply for this casting call! 🤩 @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Brilliant careers talk and experience looking at professions in television and media from BBC Bitesize. Very inspirational! #careers #performingarts #media #aspire

And we’re off! Our Year 7 students started 2025 off brilliantly with our Inside Out scheme - exploring how our acting skills can convey emotion! Brilliant start and some creative ideas! 💡

Check out our clubs and interventions available for all students! Starting 13th January @appletonacademy.bsky.social See the Performing Arts staff for details and lunchtime passes.

Our new music group will be up and running this year! We’d like to introduce Appleton Academy Singers for all our brilliant vocalists! 🎶 First session: Tuesday 14th January 3:30pm Speak to your music teacher or Mrs Jowett to sign up. @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Happy New Year all! We wanted to let you know about an exciting event for Bradford City of Culture 2025. Next weekend opens with the magical show, “Rise”! Free to all under 16s. Click the link below to book tickets! @appletonacademy.bsky.social bradford2025.co.uk/event/rise/

Name that song! Band has been working on a performance idea that we have in the pipeline this year! Although it was a little quiet this week that didn’t stop some awesome sound being produced! Band will resume after the holiday, Wednesdays after school! 🎶 @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Our singing for well-being group “Pop’n’Sing” is growing in numbers and we welcome all of you to come and sing with us. All levels of singing welcome 🤗 @appletonacademy.bsky.social

For the last week of school! We’re in the festive spirit and invite staff and students to come and make music with us! @appletonacademy.bsky.social

What’s coming up at Lunchtime? Week beginning 09/12 😊

Year 7 are applying their learning of rhythm to drum kit now. Our students have learned rhythm through the Kodaly method, they have learned to read drum notation and are now learning to apply it to debut rock school drum pieces! Wow! That’s a lot of learning! ✨ @appletonacademy.bsky.social

An opportunity for some of our budding and more experienced musicians has come up with Calderdale Music! www.calderdalemusic.co.uk/ensembles/yo...

Keyboard Club are learning 5 part “Carol of the Bells” this term! All levels are welcome- Staff or student! Tuesday Lunchtimes

Check out this week’s lunchtime clubs! Come and get your passes to get to clubs on time and come and join us for some music making! #musicclubs #musicforwellbeing #musicforall @appletonacademy.bsky.social

Today Year 10 Music were learning about Health and Safety. We practised spotting hazards, identifying the risks and then preparing a risk assessment for our rehearsals and performances. Great team work today! #teamappleton #newlearning #eduqasvocational @appletonacademy.bsky.social

We have moved! We’re up and running on BlueSky and we can’t wait to keep you updated about the brilliant things happening in the Performing Arts department. Keep an eye out! 👌🏻