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Dawlish is named as the top school in the South West in a prestigious National Competition
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Dawlish Community College is delighted to announce that we have been judged as the best school in the South West in the National Pupil Premium Awards.
Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, announced this accolade for the College on the 22nd May 2013 saying that, “I am delighted to tell you that…
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Kenton Primary – a Good School with Outstanding Behaviour and Safety and progress in Reading
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Kenton Primary School are very proud of the outcome of their recent OFSTED report from their inspection on 28th February and 1st March 2013. The report justly finds us a good school, with outstanding in the category of Behaviour and Safety and in the area of progress in reading. It…
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Starcross Primary is a GOOD School – Ofsted
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Staff and pupils at Starcross Primary are celebrating after being rated GOOD,with outstanding aspects of teaching, in its February Ofsted report.
Inspectors noted, “Teaching is consistently good and the school ensures that all pupils are given the opportunity to succeed. There are some outstanding aspects, such as the teachers’ skill in devising…
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Kenns Comic Relief Bake Off!
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Kenn Primary School’s Comic Relief Bake Off was a tremendous success.
The judging was extremely difficult but the main focus was on cakes that best captured the spirit of Red Nose Day!
All pupils that participated are to be praised for their imagination and creativity.
The cakes were sold at the end of the…
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Cockwood Memories!
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Children at Cockwood Primary have been taking part in a memories project.
They devoted an entire day to making collages through the decades of school memories. The children were given a homework task of interviewing at least 3 people in their household, family or friends about their own school memories.
Teacher Mrs. Murtha said “We…
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6.2.1 ‘The Night Sky!’
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Exminster Primary Schools new band ‘Six To One’ have released a great video to go with their debut single ‘Night Sky’.
This track was written by the members of 621 with the help from their teacher, Mr Hardee. They decided to write the song based on the whole school topic for…
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The Department for Education confirms great GCSE results for Dawlish Community College!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Last week the Department for Education confirmed the fantastic set of GCSEs that the College achieved last year. The full set of results for our region can be obtained here.
In terms of the number of students achieving 5A* – C grades including English and Mathematics we were in 6th place…
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Ofsted … a Good School with Outstanding Leadership and Management
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Dawlish Community College is absolutely delighted that their recent Ofsted inspection has rightly recognised the fantastic improvements made over the last few years which have resulted in the College now being amongst the highest performing schools in Devon.
The College received a full inspection by four Inspectors with less than twenty…
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Cockwood Primary School follow the Yellow Brick Road!
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Cockwood School staff and year 6 pupil’s celebrated the end of the school year by staging a production of ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
The event was held at The Langstone Cliff Hotel to a packed audience of family, friends and pupils. The children all worked hard to learn their lines and…
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The Dreamtime …………
Sunday, July 15th, 2012
Children at Starcross Primary School recently produced this fascinating artwork to illustrate the Aboriginal creation myth.
Working with teacher Helen Brayley-Wilson the artwork was also used on screen as a backdrop to the dance performance on stage at the Raise OUR Game concert.
It looks great and we thought we would share…
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