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Update from Durrington High School -Opportunities and celebration
At Durrington High School students are offered a vast amount of extra-curricular activities to complement their lessons. This includes the extensive after school and lunch time clubs on offer, exciting and informative school trips, participating in national competitions and even exploring other countries. The school has recently planned a trip Read more…
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Update from The Laurels Primary School -The importance of breakfast
It is a well known fact that breakfast plays a crucial part in every child’s life. This is also supported by research evidence. A research review published in ‘Frontiers in Humans neuroscience’ found positive links between eating breakfast and academic performance. From our own experience, we know that children who Read more…
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Creating the best possible parent/carer engagement with your school
Anyone who is working or has worked in a school will know that improving parent/carer engagement is one of those amorphous targets that can, at the very least, be difficult to get a clear and consistent picture of, let alone make significant gains within. As schools work with students of Read more…
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Our journey to evidence based and outstanding training at The South Downs SCITT (School Centred Initial Teacher Training)
This week is a proud week. The South Downs SCITT has received the Ofsted report from our recent inspection and we can celebrate our outstanding grade. A recognition of the quality of the early teachers that we have supported into their teaching careers. The dream started several years ago with Read more…
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Mastery approach to maths at The Laurels.
A mastery approach to teaching Maths was first introduced at The Laurels alongside the White Rose scheme of work in 2017 and is continuing to be developed. The Mastery model allows whole class teaching to spend the time needed to explore and embed the key ideas in maths, in depth. Read more…
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Update from Durrington High School
The first half of the autumn term was a busy one at Durrington High School. Alongside the usual wealth of extra-curricular activities and challenging lessons, we have welcomed many prospective students and their parents/carers to our school during open evening and a week of open mornings. We are very proud Read more…
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How our Research School supports our neighbouring schools
We are fortunate enough to have one of only 23 Research Schools based in the Durrington Multi-Academy Trust. Funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Institute for Effective Education (IEE), the Research Schools Network aims to offer support and guidance to teachers and school leaders with the mobilisation Read more…
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Update from The Laurels Primary School
A Creative Curriculum Following the age of transfer changes, last year we gained our first year six class. Having successfully guided them through SATs and transition to high school we made the decision to focus on the curriculum. Now, as a fully fledged primary school, we believe a creative, exciting Read more…
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Update from Durrington High School
The new term has got off to a great start at DMAT School Durrington High this September, with our new year 7s settling in really well and enjoying their first 2 weeks as part of Team Durrington. They are very busy and have an exciting programme packed with activities which Read more…