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DARTON COLLEGE

8th May 2015

Issue 4

Unlocking potential .Changing lives

Principals News

Mr

It has felt like a long week even

appointed Vice Principal also

discussing the issue of litter. Our

though it has only been

spent a full day in school on

Student Voice Learners have

four

Woodcock

our

newly

days!

Thursday. Together with myself

It was great to start working

and Mr Portman we started to

with

our

newly

appointed

Pedagogy Leaders! These staff

members

will

be

working

alongside Mr Portman and I to

continue

to

develop

the

quality of teaching across the

school.
meeting

Our

first

breakfast

focused

importance

of

on

the

developing

school cultures that were firmly

develop

our

structure

and

identify the key priorities for

September. It was a really
productive

day

and

am

confident that Mr Woodcock

will be a real asset to the
Leadership Team, he will be

number

planned

of

parents

and

community

and

organised

litter

pick

a
for

Wednesday 20th May. I am also

looking forward to being able
to

visit

Schools

our
as

feeder
we

Primary

begin

our

transition work - good luck to all

of the Year 6 Learners who sit

joining us in school for two days

their SATs tests next week!

a week after Spring Bank and

Year 11s have started their

will take up his full time post in

GCSEs in earnest with Art and

based on sound and shared

September.

values - they are a great

It was great to get out into the

continue to impress us all with

bunch!

community this week visiting a

their focus and commitment!

Graphics exams this week - they

Brilliant!
In this issue

Thank you to all the parents that

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attended the meeting for the

Page 2: School Gateway App - Have you downloaded yet???

forthcoming

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Year

trip

to

Belgium - not long now!

Kate Davies, Principal

Check out our website: www.dartoncollege.co.uk

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Important Dates
Year 11 GCSE Exams for this week
11 May 09.00am RE Rel/Life/Christianity
11 May 13.15pm ART
12 May 09.00am French Listening
12 May 10.00am French Reading
12 May 09.00am Applied Art & Graphics
12 May 13.15pm ART
13 May 09.00am Applied Art & Graphics
13 May 13.15pm RE Rel/Society
15 May 09.00am Btec Principals of Science
15 May 13.15pm Physical Education
Year 9 Vaccinations - Please ensure your
childs consent form for the DTP/MEN C
vaccination is returned by 22.05.15.
Year 11 Prom (3rd July @ 7pm) - Tickets
are now on sale @ 25 from the Admin/
Finance Office.
Year 11 Alton Towers visit 20th June Deadline for payment/paperwork is
Monday 11th May.
Year 10 Field Trip to Flamborough 20th May
Please ensure paperwork/payment is
returned as soon as possible.

School Blogs

Nurture
Nurture have completed their English topic on the book by David
Walliams, Mr Stink. The learners used adjective and similes to describe
the character Mr Stink and have tweeted David and uploaded a clip to
YouTube which you can view at http://wp.me/p4JOnm-1fJ. Well done !

School Gateway App - Have you downloaded yet???

This weeks focus blog is English!
http://dartoncollege.co.uk/
category/students/student-deptblogs/english-student-blog/

Many thanks to all the parents/

carers that have downloaded
the school gateway app - 47%
of you. If you have not yet
downloaded the app please
follow the steps below Step 1 - Download the School
Gateway app from Google
Play or the Apple App Store.
Step 2 - Select the Im a new
user option, enter your email
and mobile number your PIN
number will then be sent to your
phone.
Step 3 - Enter your PIN and login. If you have any difficulties
please do not hesitate to contact us for assistance.

Snippets...

Brilliant work from Miss Vickers Year 11 Geography group.

Great show of wood working skills from Molly Jarratt 7BL.
Ms Davies was impressed by a group of Year 8 girls who produced handmade paper bags (see photo above) - Good work girls!
Check out the art work from a selection of our Year 7 learners by visiting
http://wp.me/p4JOnm-1g3

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