The rating was due to the "inadequate" Senior Leadership and Safeguarding at the school and the report states pupils were being "put at risk".

It was built adjacent to the ancient Bede House, formerly Wheatlands Academy, a building converted for the school's use and opened in 1997.

[7] Other building work included a refurbishment of the Sixth Form Café area and the old chapel.

[10] It has appeared in the BBC Songs of Praise School Choirs Competition several times, winning in 2006.

He now plays for Loughborough University FC after a brief professional career at Leeds United and Newcastle Blue Star.

George Mills (2010–present) is the current English Schools' 800m champion and England representative at the junior commonwealth games.

[14] On 31 December 2011 it was announced that the former deputy head of St Aidan's, Steve Hatcher, had been awarded an MBE for services to education in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.

[15] In January 2018, a third member of staff, Timothy Staden Pocock, was awarded an MBE for services to education, charity and local football.