This week we said our fond farewells to the Year 11 cohort who have now finished all of their exams and are coming to the end of their status as a Year 11 student and as a student of Blackpool Aspire Academy. They were invited in on Wednesday to do the now traditional shirt signing, ‘Class of’ photo as seen above and to have a chat to staff who wanted to wish them well.
Mr Woods said, “Although five years have passed, it doesn’t seem so long ago the majority of this group were in Year 7 after making the move up to ‘big school’ and now they are about to embark on a whole new chapter in their lives.
“In their time here at Aspire they have shown amazing resilience in having to cope with the pandemic and then settling back into normal school life in order to prepare for the exams they have just taken.
“They have the potential to shape their lives in any way they choose, the capacity to achieve anything to which they set their minds and, more important than anything, the capacity to make the world around them a happier place. Their future is out there for the taking and I wish all of them the very best of luck.”
We look forward to welcoming our current Year 11 back in August to collect their exam results.