Durrington Newsletter 20 June 2025
Careers Week 2025 – Inspiring Futures at Durrington
From 9th to 12th June, Durrington High School celebrated Careers Week – a packed programme designed to open students’ eyes to the many exciting paths available beyond school. Each morning kicked off with a student briefing from Mr Henry, introducing the day’s visitors and sparking discussion on thought-provoking topics like working abroad and how careers […]
LRA working in partnership with West Sussex Libraries
Our Learning Resource Area has over 15,000 books in a range of genres for all our age groups, as well as reference books, study guides, magazines and newspapers. It is a large, peaceful and relaxing educational and social area which opens at 8am each morning for students to visit prior to period 1. Students can […]
Year 11 librarians
Last week we said a sad farewell to our year 11 librarians who have been fantastic in helping out in so many ways during their time at Durrington High. Mrs Dacosta, LRA Manager, organised a farewell gathering with the LRA student team, and the year 11s were rewarded with thank you gifts, and then had […]
S’koolFest 2025
On Tuesday 3rd June the best of Sussex schools’ new music gathered to perform at the Pavilion Theatre S’koolFest 2025. The theatre was buzzing with energy as the bands lit up the stage, including our very own talented Durrington musicians. Year 8 students Finn McKeown, Jamie Ward, Sophie Hopkins and Marcus Dixon rocked the stage […]
MFL trip to BFI Southbank Cinema
45 year 8 and 9 students had the opportunity to travel to London to visit the prestigious BFI Southbank Cinema as part of our Modern Foreign Languages enrichment programme. They enjoyed watching a variety of short French films, aimed at boosting their language skills, and took part in interactive activities specifically designed for KS3 MFL […]
Durrington Newsletter 6 June 2025
Computing trip to Legoland
100 Year 8 students went to Legoland yesterday as part of a computing trip. The students all attended a Lego Spike workshop where they built, coded, and debugged their own robots using LEGOLAND’s very own SPIKE™ Prime robotics sets! During the workshop some students managed to make their robots navigate across the LEGOLAND map, turning and […]
The Super-Curriculum @DHS
At Durrington we are proud of all the achievements and successes of students whether this is in performing arts, in sports or their academic endeavours. The Durrington Super-Curriculum programme aims to take our students beyond the boundaries of their normal curriculum, exposing them to knowledge beyond their normal lessons and encouraging them to aspire to […]
Year 7 trip to Hampton Court Palace
The History department took 120 year 7 students to Hampton Court Palace, on two separate trips, where they explored the significance of the Tudor period. The students got to explore the Tudor kitchens and get a glimpse of what life was like at that point in history. They also toured the impressive Great Hall and […]
