Durrington Newsletter 26 January 2024

St John’s College Oxford – Inspire Scholars Programme

We are delighted to announce that we have entered into a partnership with The University of Oxford – St John’s College to become a member of their Inspire Scholars Programme. We are very proud to be one of only 30 schools in the south and south east region to have been selected for this partnership. […]

Platinum Science Legend Award

In order to gain my Platinum Science Legend award, I was asked to join Mr Morrice (my science teacher) in a Team Teach, in which I would teach some of a lesson to my own science class. To prepare, we made some slides for the slideshow that would be used in the lesson, including me […]

National CyberFirst Girls Competition 2023 

The National CyberFirst Girls Competition is run by National Cyber Security Centre which is part of GCHQ, the Governments Communications Headquarters. This week we entered 6 teams from Year 8 into the competition. This national competition aims to inspire girls interested in technology to pursue a career in cyber security while breaking barriers in the male-dominated […]

TeenTech Sussex Festival 2023

The Computer Science department took 24 year 9 students to the TeenTech Festival 2023 at the AMEX Stadium in Brighton. Following up from their virtual event two weeks ago, this gave students the opportunity to try their hand at immersive challenges and experiments, to handle cutting edge technology and, most importantly, to spend time with […]

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 […]