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Darwen Academy Receives Enterprise Award At The House of Commons
Representatives from Darwen Aldridge Community Academy and Aldridge Education were at the House of Commons yesterday to collect the...


RAF Teambuilding Workshop
Around 80 Year 7 Design Engineering students took part in a teambuilding workshop with our RAF STEM Ambassadors on Friday! Students...


BAE systems with the RAF and the Royal Navy
Last Tuesday afternoon the BAE systems roadshow captured the attention of all year 8 with their 70cm high android talking, thinking and...


Sixth Form Macmillian Coffee Morning
On Friday 26th September Year 12 and 13 students hosted the ‘The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ in aid of Macmillian Cancer Support. We...


DACA Wins National Recognition For Building Enterprise Skills
Small Business Minister Kelly Tolhurst has named the winners of the Enterprising Britain Awards 2018 Darwen Aldridge Community Academy...


DACA Students Celebrate GCSE Results
Students at Darwen Aldridge Community Academy were celebrating achieving top grades in the reformed GCSE examinations. In total 22 grade...


Stand-out individual successes
Paige Williams, who gained A*A A and will be studying biomedical science at Oxford, where she will be joined by Brittany Cooper, who also...


Record results & 3 DACA students on the road to Oxford University
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is celebrating the success of its students in producing record breaking results including 3 students...


I Love DACA
This year our I LOVE DACA event included guest visits from the Navy, BROOK the River Ribble Trust and Leanne Romley from PREVENT....


The Big Bang Fair
A group of twelve year 9 students went on a reward trip to “The Bing Bang” festival in Liverpool in July. The reward trip was earned due...
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