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DARTON COLLEGE

12th June 2015

Issue 8

Unlocking potential .Changing lives Principals News

On Monday we said our official

good bye to Year 11, who

have now left on study leave. I

cannot believe how my first

ye a r a t D a r t o n i s n e a r l y

complete, it seems like only

yesterday that I took my first

Year 11 assembly and spoke to

them about how quickly their

exams would come around! I

am incredibly proud of each

and every one of them, they

h a v e d e m o n s t r a t e d r e a l

resilience and commitment

particularly over the last few

months. Likewise huge thanks

also go to Mrs Woodhouse and

Mr Renardson and all of our

teaching team at Darton who

have worked tirelessly to offer

additional support and revision

session over the course of the

term and during the half term

breaks. They deserve every

success.

I have been fortunate enough

to have contact with many

parents over the last few

months, dealing with a whole

r a n g e o f i s s u e s . W e

a c k n o w l e d g e t h a t

communication between us

and yourself is not always as

efficient as it should be.

We are working hard to try and

address this. As part of this work

w e h a v e c r e a t e d a

communication protocol that

will hopefully signpost you to the

appropriate person more

quickly, it also includes key

staffs email addresses rather

than just the general college

email address. We would

welcome any feedback! To

view this please visit http://

wp.me/P4JOnm-1m9

We were delighted to see one

of our ex students Connor Bailey

in the Chronicle last week who

has launched a new venture

Gluten Free Baking - great

work Callum.

I hope you all have a lovely

weekend.

Kate Davies, Principal

In this issue

Page 1: Principals News

Page 2: Under 13s sporting achievement

Page 2: Snippets...

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

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Important Dates

Year 11 GCSE Exams week beginning 15.06.15

15th June 9.00am Chemistry

15th June 9.00am F Add. Science

15th June 1.15pm IT User Skills

16th June 9.00am History Surgery 17th June 9.00am Physics

17th June 9.00am F Add. Science

Year 6 Induction Evening Wednesday 17th June @ 6.00pm

Induction evening for all our Year 6 learners and parent/carers.

Year 11 Prom (3rd July @ 7pm) Tickets on sale @ 25 from the Admin/Finance Office - last day to purchase

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

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

Therapeutic colouring Coding Club, Homework, Archaeology,

Gardening, Knitting, Rapper

Dancing and many more will be

available from September. The

Year 7 Darton Voice team would

like to publicly thank the staff who

have offered to give up their own

time.

STOP PRESS : End of Year

Performances -

Year 11 Drama Presentation - 22nd

June, Tickets 2 available from

Reception - 6.30pm start.

Follow us on twitter: @darton_college

Snippets

Under 13s Rugby Team Sport Achievement

Jack Riley 9RC has been selected for his first television appearance in The

'4oclock club' show on CBBC well done Jack!

Fantastic home learning from History class 9.2 - keep up the good work!

Amazing learning from Theo, Ben, Aiden and Jake in Nurture - Brilliant

work!

Great news - our U13 rugby team won the Barnsley league without los-

ing a game! The commitment shown has been sensational throughout

the whole academic year, turning out in wind and rain to train. Several

learners were absent from Thursdays game due to competing in a cricket competition, but they have been a major part of the success

also. These include George England, Lewellyn McCormack, Joel Wil-

kinson and Mason Holmes. The team above included Oliver Bould, Billy

Beasley, Callum Gracie, Billy Addy, George Halliday, Harry Harvey,

Corey Haddington and Kyle Meteer well done boys.

Article from Student Voice

On Friday 5th June two Year 7

learners took the time to go to staff

briefing to present an appeal for

staff to help with lunch clubs. The

idea was to seek out known and

hidden talents of the Darton

College staff that they would be

happy to share with our learners

during a series of lunch clubs to

start at the school from September

2015. Following the great feedback

from staff activi t ies including

P h o t o g r a p h y , A s t r o n o m y ,