#onthisdayin1945 (80 years ago) German armed forces officially surrendered to the Allied powers, marking what later became known as Victory in Europe Day. After 6 long years of war, and over 70 million deaths, peace finally came to Europe #wewillremember🌹 #veday @AberdareSchool

On the last day of the Autumn Term we would like to wish all of our pupils, their families and the local community a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year. We know how lucky we are to have such incredible support of each and everyone of you and hope you know how

#onthisdayin1966 (58 years ago): A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren #GONEBUTNOTFORGOTTEN @aberdareschool @cymraeg_acs @acsblwyddyn11 @wyth.acs @saith_acs

Diolch yn fawr to everyone involved in our first ever Dydd Shwmae event at ACS today and to all of the members of the community who attended and made it such a huge success! We look forward to seeing you again soon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #StriveBelieveAchieve✨ #DyddShwmae

#onthisdayin1940 (84 years ago): World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement #HEROICWITOLDUNTOLDSTORY @aberdareschool

#onthisdayin1940 17 (84 years ago): World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion #BATTEREDBRITAINBATTLESON @aberdareschool https://t.co/UcGPgr29MI

ATTENTION SIXTH FORM! Do you want a new challenge? Do you want to represent the school? An excellent activity for UCAS? Then come and join the ACS Debate Team after school today! 🗣️🏆💪 #newchallenge #letsdebate @aberdareschool @sixthformacs https://t.co/pHz2STVx56

#onthisdayin1985 (39 years ago): Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games #DEBUTOFAGAMINGLEGEND 🇯🇵🇮🇹🍄 @aberdareschool @computing_acs https://t.co/WxIkMhqbTC

Such a excellent start to the year from Year 7 and 9 👏👏💡💡 Year 7 completing their independent learning activity on famous historical figures and Year 9 exploring the Russian Revolution as part of their Democracy and Dictatorship studies.🎉🎊🥳 #makehistory @aberdareschool

#onthisdayin2022 (2 years ago): Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James's Palace #FROMPRINCETOKING👑🇬🇧 @aberdareschool https://t.co/c6v854J7e8

At the end of our first week back of the Autumn Term we would like to say how incredibly proud we are of all of our fantastic learners at @AberdareSchool. Llongyfarchiadau a da iawn chi gyd! #StriveBelieveAchieve✨

Wow! So proud of our Year 11 learners! Amazing results from all, with 1/4 of them achieving A*-A! Such a privilege to work with such diligent, dedicated and generally brilliant learners. Looking forward to welcoming lots back! #resultsday2024 🎊🎓📚🙌🎉🤩🎊🥳@aberdareschool

A HUGE good luck to our Historians collecting their GCSEs tomorrow! No matter what happens or what results you achieve, we're extremely proud of you all and it's been a pleasure to teach you. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’ 🍀🤞🌠📚🎓 @AberdareSchool

Wow! So proud of our KS5 learners! Amazing results for both History and Criminology, with 88% and 90% A*-C respectively! Such a privilege to work with such diligent, dedicated and generally brilliant learners #resultsday2024 #proudteachers #teamACS 🎊🎓📚🙌🎉🤩🎊🥳

A HUGE good luck to our Historians and Criminologists collecting their results tomorrow! No matter what happens, we're extremely proud of you all and it's been a pleasure to teach you. Remember “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m Possible’.”🍀🤞🌠📚🎓 #resultsday

Always nice to be remembered by the lovely @leonidas_ieper even though it's been 7 years since our last visit! Ypres, you have been wonderful and our learners are simply the best in the world 🧳💼⛴️🇫🇷🇧🇪👏🏻👏🏻 #historyinthemaking #ACSontour #proudteachers https://t.co/ba8XJo5cIN

Yet another great day with some simply wonderful learners! Always great to have members of public comment on their behavior and maturity! Menin Gate and Last Post ceremony tonight #historyinthemaking #ACSontour #proudteachers 🇧🇪🇫🇷⛴️💼🧳 @aberdareschool https://t.co/xTstBcrDoV

And we're off! Full day ahead of exploring Ypres sailient battlefields and then attending the Last Post ceremony this evening. Such a pleasure to take learners like these 👏🏻👏🏻🎂🥳✨🎉🎊 #ACSontour #Belgium2024 #historyinthemaking @aberdareschool https://t.co/JfuZutTSKe

What a pleasure to spend time with such dedicated and engaging learners! A lovely day spent exploring Ypres, eating ice cream and playing ping pong after dinner. A busy day tomorrow so look out for more pictures #ACSontour @aberdareschool 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 https://t.co/fRG3Qrrm1R

Yet again, our learners have been superb! Despite a difficult journey with some delays, and a worldwide IT outage, learners have shown the best of ACS. Almost in France so watch this space 🇫🇷🇧🇪👋🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #proudteachers #ACSontour #teamHistory @aberdareschool https://t.co/ZvSJZ84BmY