DLP News
Dawlish Community College – Year 11 Leaving Arrangements 2013
Posted on 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
Posted on 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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Step Through Our Magic Mirror!
Posted on May 10th, 2013
As part of the current Literacy unit Westcliff Primary School’s Powderham Class have created their very own version of the story ‘Through the Magic Mirror’. Each child has added their own ideas and we would like to share our online book with you. We hope you enjoy the story and…
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Exminster Champions of Devon in Futsal
Posted on May 10th, 2013
Congratulations to the year 5 boys at Exminster Primary School, who recently won the Partnership Futsal tournament, and then went on to take part in the Devon Futsal finals at Paignton Sports College. The standard was outstanding as all teams involved were champions of their regions. Nevertheless, Exminster FC clearly stood out as…
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World Book Day at Cockwood
Posted on May 10th, 2013
Pupils and staff at Cockwood Primary School enjoyed a super day dressed up as favourite book characters. Prizes were awarded for great costumes. The children spent most of the day in their house teams designing and making a children’s book. The results were fantastic and are on display outside the…
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Author David Lawrence Jones visits Cockwood
Posted on May 10th, 2013
The children at Cockwood Primary School enjoyed a wonderful session working with the author David Lawrence-Jones. David wowed the children with his tales and demonstrated how to write an exciting story.
We were then lucky enough to have him open our new school library. We celebrated the success of two of…
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Children from Cockwood Primary School sing at museum opening
Posted on May 10th, 2013
Cockwood Primary School Choir were invited to sing at the re-opening ceremony of the Dawlish Museum.
Despite the chilly breeze, 23 children from Year 2-6 sang a super medley of songs just outside the Museum. The Mayor then re-opened the Museum and we were all invited to have a first look…
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Kenton Primary – a Good School with Outstanding Behaviour and Safety and progress in Reading
Posted on 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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Further education, training and employment success for Dawlish
Posted on 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
Posted on 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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