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DARTON COLLEGE

6th November 2015

Issue 9

Unlocking potential .Changing lives

Principals News

Its been a great first week

back! Mondays professional
development day was used to
create a much clearer
overview of

our curriculum

offer so that we can provide

more clarity for you as parents
about what your child is
learning and when. The plan is
to collate this information and
share it with you before
Christmas.
We are looking forward to
meeting Year 9 Parents at our
first parents evening of the year
next Tuesday.
In this issue

Year 7 have had the opportunity

to watch the Yew Tree Theatre
group this week, exploring resilience and risk. The feedback has
been excellent.

November until the 24th

Arrangements are well underway for our Loud Shirt Day to

celebrate Children in Need next
Friday, 13th November. This year
we will be splitting the monies
rai sed betw een Children in
Need and Pancreatic Cancer.
Uniform is to be worn but your
normal school shirt can be replaced with something LOUDER!
Im looking forward to seeing the
results! We are asking for a 1
donation.

interventions.

Year 11 will be sitting Mock Examinations from the 10th of

Kate Davies

November. These examinations

will be used to support final
prediction grades and to inform

Finally a huge thank you to all

parents and carers who have
contacted us about our Start a
Heart session before the
holidays, it was great to receive
so much positive feedback.

I hope you all have a lovely

weekend.

Principal

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Extra curricular activities

Important Dates
Year 9 Reports issued.
Year 9 Parents Evening Tuesday
10th November 2015.
Remembrance Day11th November 2015 (Service and Whole
School Drop Down Day)

A huge thanks to all staff for going the extra mile and setting up and running a real variety of clubs across school. Our Performance Department as
ever continue to run clubs and support learners in a whole variety of competitions, we have a thriving Sewing Bee Club, a Mindfullness club, a vibrant Science Club to name but a few!

Year 7 Yew Tree Theatre Company

Children in Need/Loud Shirt Day

Friday 13th November 2015.
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Yew Tree Theatre Company paid a

visit to our Year 7s today with a
s p e c i a l l y c o m m i s s i o ne d p l a y
representing resilience and risk.

School Blogs
This week the spotlight is on the
Ethic of Excellence Blog

Each of our year 7 classes took it in

turns to visit the lecture theatre for
a lesson. The theatre company
acted out a 15 minute piece
about a group of friends preparing
for their last day at secondary
school. The play involved the trials
and tribulations of teenage life
including how friendships are
formed, the decisions we make
and ideas to avoid making

decisions our learners may regret

and how to avoid these
situations.
Our learners comple te d
workshops with the theatre
company following the play. The
aims of the workshops were to
distill the characters in the play
and relate these to real life.
Darton learners represented the
school well, thoroughly enjoying
the play and the workshops plus
taking good ideas and learning
with them.

Snippets...
Here are just a few snippets from the great learning this week

Some great learning about Charles Dickens taking place in Nurture

and across Year 8

Some fabulous book reviews by Year 10 are available on the school

website.

Some wonderful bath bombs being created in the Science Club.

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