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DARTON COLLEGE

26th June 2015

Issue 10

Unlocking potential .Changing lives Principals News

I enjoyed a wet, but fantastic

Saturday at Alton Towers this

week with Year 11s! They were

an absolute pleasure - huge

thanks to all the staff who

supported the trip and special

thanks to Mrs Hillier who looked

after me on Oblivion!

On Monday I had the privilege

of working with Mr Portman,

Miss Hodkin and Mrs Dobson to

enquire into the practice and

our learners habits in the English

department. All too often as a

Headteacher you get sucked

i n t o c o n v e r s a t i o n s t h a t

seemingly have nothing to do

with learning! It was fantastic

to spend the morning working

with these talented teachers.

Our morning ended with some

clear areas of development for

Miss Hodkin to take back to her

department.

O n T u e s d a y o u r M a t h s

department had their repeat

departmental review and it

was great to hear posit ive

f e e d b a c k a b o u t t h e

improvements many of the

staff have made. We arent

there yet but we are beginning

to move in the right direction!

The end of the week is equally

frenetic with the relocation of

departments ready for the new

timetable which starts next

week.

The increase in Maths and

English lessons at KS3 and Year

10 has meant we have had to

f i n d a d d i t i o n a l t e a c h i n g

spaces. It has also been a

great opportunity to have a

good clear out!

A huge thank you to all staff

who have worked tirelessly this

week to make this happen and

to our fantastic facilities team

who have moved furniture,

classroom dividers and ferried

trolley loads of rubbish to the

skip!

Kate Davies, Principal :)

In this issue

Page 1: Principals News

Page 2: Are you following us? / Sporting News

Page 2: Snippets...

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

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Important Dates

All learners commence the week

on their new timetable.

1st July - Year 10 Dance Show -

Overdrive Extreme 6:00pm

Tickets 4 each.

2nd July - Athletic Competition at

South Leeds Stadium Year 7 - 10.

3rd July - Year 11 Prom 7pm.

8th July - Performance Achieve-

ment Awards Evening 6:00pm

Tickets 2 or 4 with Pie & Pea

Supper.

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

http://dartoncollege.co.uk/category/excellence/

Year 11 GCSE Drama learners

performed for family and friends on

Monday 22nd July at the

Achievement Evening - it was a

huge success enjoyed by all.

Follow us on twitter: @darton_college

Snippets

Sports

Phoebe Whelan (7BE) and Jodie Kirk (7BE) produce a wonderful model in geography this week great work girls!

Amazing art work from Charlotte Atkinson (9RR) and Hannah Thomas (9RR)- keep up the good work!

Wow - amazing cakes created by Brue Nkomo (8PT) Chanell Naylor (8PA) Ellie Sacre (8PN) - check back here next week for the winner of the Bake Off

This week our under 13s girls rounders team were crowned Barnsley

School Champions. The team consisted of: Lucy England,

Ellie Chappell, Ella Wilson, Ferne Naden, Lois Holling, Caitlin Foter, Harriet

Bound, Mia Watson, Sienna Hutchinson, Molly Williams and Tilly Brown.

Twitter Year 11 Drama

Are you following us?

Here at Darton College

we like to share the

great work that

learners and staff do. One of the

ways we do this is through Twitter.

We would love to be able to share

this with you here are the

twitter accounts that we have

@Darton_College

@DartonCollegePE @DartonNurture

@DartonCreative @DramaDarton

@DartonGeog @DartonEng

@DartonScience @DartonVoice