Durrington Newsletter 17 November 2023

GCSE Certificate Collection 2023

Dear Year 11 Leaver  It gives me great pleasure to be able to invite you to Durrington High School on Thursday 23rd November to collect your GCSE certificates and celebrate the successes of our ex-students. The event will be held in the main hall and will run from 5:30pm – 6:30pm. The event will include […]

Duke of Edinburgh Bronze day hike in half term

Over 50 of the Year 10 students who have started working towards their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award spent a morning hiking during half term. They hiked a 9km route on the South Downs in preparation for their Expedition part of the award. Despite the rainy weather on the previous days and earlier that morning, the […]

TeenTech Festival 2023

This virtual event was attended by over 30 Year 9 students who took part in the interactive live event hosted by Maggie Philbin. The aim of the event was to change the students’ perspectives of technology jobs and break down stereotypes as well as opening their eyes to realise that tech jobs are everywhere and […]

Art & Graphics students visit The British Museum

We are so proud of all our year 11 Art & Graphics students who went on The British Museum trip on Tuesday 10th October. A sunny London greeted us as we walked through into the impressive ‘Great Court’ at the museum. Graphics students sketched in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries, looking at ancient and modern […]

Year 7 parent/carer event Thursday 28th September

Good afternoon all As per the recent newsletter we will be holding our first year 7 parent/carer event of the year on Thursday 28th September. The evening will start at 5pm and last approximately an hour, with refreshments provided.  We aim to go through the following information in the hope that this will support both […]

Year 10 student Callum leads the year 7 assembly on our KAPP values

Hi, my name is Callum and I am in year 10. I’m going to be talking about why you as a year group should get involved with KAPP challenges. To start off with I’m going to share what badges I have achieved. Across the years I have managed to get 3 seahorses which are bronze, […]

GCSE Results Day is on Thursday 22nd August. Students will be able to collect their results from the main hall between 10am and 11am. Students should use the Rodmell Road entrance.