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Dawlish Community College – Year 11 Leaving Arrangements 2013
Friday, May 17th, 2013
All Year 11 students are expected to attend all lessons as normal up to and including THURSDAY 23rd MAY, when students will leave the College at the end of the English Literature exam, at approximately 3:30pm. Students are still required to attend normal classes/revision sessions after this date for any…
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Dawlish trip to the Devon County Show
Friday, May 17th, 2013
Yesterday 257 Year 8 and 9 students from Dawlish Community College visited the Devon County Show. The County show is an excellent resource on our doorstep and students were tasked with discovering new social, moral, spiritual and cultural trends that they would not normally engage with in typical classroom activities.
The…
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Further education, training and employment success for Dawlish
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
The College is very proud to announce that the latest information released by Careers South West shows that Dawlish Community College was one of the best performing schools in the whole of Devon last year for enabling students from Year 11 to progress into further education, training or employment. Data…
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Centrax Bigtrak Challenge
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
10 students from the Year 10 BTEC Engineering course at Dawlish Community College were selected to participate in an Engineering Competition. This competition was held at the Centrax Engineering Headquarters, organised and run by their current Year 1 engineering apprentices.
On arrival at Centrax the students were given a brief insight…
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3rd and final challenge – Challenging Maths
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Teams of four gifted and talented pupils from each of the Partner Primary schools attended the latest Specialism Event at Dawlish Community College. This time it was the turn of Maths, following on from the Technology and Science events. The seven teams from Exminster, Kenn, Kenton, Cockwood, Starcross, Gatehouse and Westcliff Primary…
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Praise and rewards for all
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Over the past term students in year 8 at Dawlish Community College have been trialing a rewards system called EPraise. This reward system has been developed to engage the students in a praise culture at the College. The students have been given merit reward stickers worth 1 point, which are…
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A second challenge for our Primary Pupils…
Monday, March 25th, 2013
On Tuesday 26th February, following on from the success of the Science Challenge, teams of year 5 gifted and talented students from Cockwood, Exminster, Gatehouse, Kenn, Kenton, Starcross and Westcliff Primary Schools competed in a Design and Technology challenge. In a quick succession of timed challenges they made vegetable cartoon…
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What a challenge ….
Monday, March 25th, 2013
On Thursday 14th February, 28 pupils from 7 local primary schools arrived at Dawlish Community College to take part in a forensic science challenge morning. For many of the children, it was their first taste of life at a secondary school and the nerves on their faces were clear to…
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Fairtrade at Dawlish Community College
Monday, March 25th, 2013
Students from Dawlish Community College were pleased to learn more about Fairtrade issues and in particular coffee production at a special Fairtrade Assembly on Wednesday 13th March. They were particularly pleased to meet Oscar, a fair-trade coffee producer from Peru who came in to talk about the work of his…
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Getting ready for interview
Monday, March 25th, 2013
167 Year 11 students from Dawlish Community College undertook Mock Interviews at the Langstone Cliff Hotel in Dawlish. Over two days, the students attended the hotel to experience a mock interview. As in previous years the experience was a tremendous success and another good display of the close working relationship between the…
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