Durrington Newsletter 16 June 2023

National Diversity Week

Dear parent/carer, Important and exciting news… As you will be aware we remain fully committed to ensuring that each and every member of our community feels part of Team Durrington. We are so proud of the diversity that already exists within our school and equally of the richness this brings to our community.  Diversity is […]

Qualifier Expedition for Duke of Edinburgh

In stark contrast to the when the practice expedition was completed in the wet weather in March, the sun shone for the whole weekend at the end of May when the 4 teams completed their expedition section of their Bronze Award.  Teams started just north of Falmer and hiked up and over the South Downs […]

Pride of Durrington

Based on the huge success of last year’s inaugural Pride of Durrington awards evening, we are delighted to announce that it will return this year on Thursday 13th July 2023. We continue to be inspired by so many of our students. Pride of Durrington allows us to celebrate these outstanding achievements (both within school and […]

Year 7 science club ‘Pringle Package’ challenge

Before the Easter break year 7 science club students were set a ‘Pringle Package’ challenge. They had to create packaging for a single pringle that was going to be tested by posting the pringle packages back to the school. Students got into teams of two or three, and using materials such as packaging peanuts, bubble […]

Durrington High School – Winners of Dance Live 2023!

It is hard to find the words to sum up the experience we had at Dance Live on Tuesday, the whole team excitedly met up at the start of the day for a few quick rehearsals before heading off to Portsmouth.  Having already won our heat in Eastbourne the team were just excited to perform […]