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Year 11 progression into year 12
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- Written by Ms A Hale
Timeline for students (both internal and external) wishing to transition from year 11 to year 12 at Dane Court Grammar School.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - The school is closed to almost all students until further notice
Students: If you have any worries or concerns regarding coronavirus, or any other matter, you can call Childline on 0800 1111 or click here for help
Week commencing 6 April 2020
When your child is ill or injured it is very difficult to decide if/when to call your child’s GP, NHS 111 or go the Accident and Emergency Department (A&E). During the current situation and while the government is asking everyone to stay at home, it can be confusing to know what to do.
Here is some guidance designed by primary and secondary care clinicians from Barts Health & North-East London STP.- The Chatterers (a group of Dane Court student journalists and editors) have not allowed lockdown to halt publication of the Spring edition of the student newspaper DCGS Chatter. Download your copy here.
- We've published an addendum to our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
You can read it here: ADDENDUM - DC Safeguarding and CP Policy
Week commencing 30 March 2020
People will be reacting in different ways to the change in lifestyle, and we are aware that some of our students and their families are finding it hard to adjust to the new restrictions. With this in mind, our colleagues at the Thanet Inclusion Support Service have compiled some resources to support parents with children at home during lockdown.
Firstly, there is a list of external services still available for support or set up to help support the community during the crisis. Contact details for these services are provided, however please bear in mind the speed at which the landscape is changing; some services may be difficult to reach or may have already been withdrawn.
Secondly, they have created a pack of resources to support positive mental health and provide emotional support while at home. These are activities that can be explored by the whole family if necessary.
If you have any particular concerns or worries, we are happy to hear from you and will do our best to support you. Mrs Holmes (SENCO) can be contacted by email at holmes@danecourt.kent.sch.uk, Mr Sunderland at sunderland@danecourt.kent.sch.uk and Mrs Ives at ives@danecourt.kent.sch.uk.
Faced with a global pandemic, Emily keeps calm and carries on. Service Learning is an important element of our IB career-related programme (IBCP) in the sixth form which could have been hit hard by the coronavirus measures.
Under normal circumstances students liaise with members of the local community and undertake unpaid and voluntary activities that help the community and also have a learning benefit for the student. That's not even a possibility at the moment but thanks to the swift action and advice of her teachers IBCP student Emily Vaccaro has devised a plan. Read more here.
Our Food Technology department has been ecouraging year 8 students to get involved with the preparation of meals at home and many have taken photos of the delicious-looking creationsand submitted them to their Food Tech Google Classroom. Inspired by the response, Mrs Leese has started uploading more recipes (at least one each week) to this website.
Take a look here.
Week commencing 23 March 2020
- published a factsheet to help you incorporate school work into your household routine
- provided a safe place to work and play for our students whose parents are fulfilling critical roles in the national response to the coronavirus.
- sent year 11 students and their parents updates about the DfE's more detailed guidance on GCSE results this Summer
- posted plenty of help with keeping students safe when they are learning online at home
- written directly to our sixth form students with the latest information about their written exams
- set specific tasks and activities for students learning from home (check your school email and Google Classrooms)
- provided technical support to get students at home up and running when the online technology doesn't seem to work properly
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Learning from home
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Find work set for you
Check your school email inbox and Google Classrooms to find work your teacher has set for you or your class.
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More learning activities
We are maintaining a collection of extra tasks, resources and activities for all year groups in all subjects.
You can view it here:
Here's where to get help if you have problems accessing your account or difficulties with Google Drive or Google Apps. -
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If you are working from home and encounter problems accessing your school account or have difficulties with Google Drive or Google Apps, our IT Services staff will do their best to help. -
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We are aware that, with the school closed as part of the resonse to COVID-19, it is likely that many children will be spending an increased amount of time online over the coming weeks. Online safety is an important part of keeping children safe at Dane Court and as such we would like to share some helpful advice to help you consider how you can keep your family safer online at home.
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Ephemeral 8 - Changing Times
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- Written by Mr B Forward
As the year draws to a close, our talented team of writers and editors in Year 12 have produced another engaging and visually stunning edition of ephemeral, our creative writing-themed magazine.
Gene technology week
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- Written by Mr J Butt
For over 20 years, the Life Sciences department at Canterbury Christ Church University has been loaning Dane Court Biology department the necessary hardware to enable the students to be able to carry out gene technology practicals in school science labs, which otherwise would be completely unaffordable.
Courage and determination
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- Written by Mrs M Linton
Kurl-Ann joined us in January 2018 shortly after arriving in the UK. She enrolled on our International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme studying on the Health and Social Care pathway. Over the last eighteen months Kurl-Ann has studied IB subjects Psychology and Biology, as well as completing voluntary work, studying Japanese culture and an internship at Age UK in Margate. She was able to complete her studies in Health and Social Care a year early and has been accepted on a place at Kingston University to study BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing.
Kurl-Ann is courageous young woman and we wish her every success in the future.
Dane Court students take top business prize
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Dane Court Grammar School had two excellent groups of year 10 students who qualified for the final of this year's Business of Enterprise competition and one of those returned from London with the top prize. Last Friday (5 July 2019), the two groups travelled in hope to NatWest's HQ in Bishopsgate with their well thought out and rehearsed business propositions and both performed with commendable skill.
Edward lays wreath at Somme battlefields
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Year 9 student Edward Thompson has visited the Somme battlefields, after being invited to lay a wreath at the annual service at the Lochnagar Crater by the site's owner Richard Dunning MBE. The service focuses on themes of peace and reconciliation.
It is the third time Edward has visited the crater, which was caused by mines blown by the British under the German lines as the opening act of the Battle of the Somme. The mines were blown at 7:28am on the 1 July 1916, and the act is remembered at the same time every 1 July, in a service that starts with trench whistles being blown around the crater, which is 30 metres deep and 100 metres wide. Edward has previously had the honour of being allowed inside the crater bowl, which - as a war grave - is closed to the public.
After laying a wreath for the Grimsby Chums, who signed up together and died together at the Somme, Edward visited the British Cemetery at Hailly Station, the site of a major field hospital. The cemetery contains over 3000 bodies, including those of German soldiers.
Edward also visited the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's newly opened visitor centre at Beaurains, to see new gravestones being carved and the sword from a Cross of Remembrance being repaired, and visited a vast underground V2 rocket base from the Second World War.
Edward has chosen to study history at GCSE.
Girls in rugby national finals tournament
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- Written by Miss E Downes
Dane Court Grammar School’s sporting girls came so close to a National final when both their year 9 and year 10 Rugby League teams lost hard fought semi-finals in Warrington last Tuesday (21 May). For a few years now, Dane Court has entered the Rugby League Champion Schools competition with increasing success.
Initially doing well in the county tournament they often qualified for the South East regionals and the, last year, one team gained entrance to the National Finals tournament finishing 5th - outside the semi-final qualifications. However, this season years 8, 9 and 10 all won county titles and then reached the National tournament following success at the Regionals in Roehampton. This meant a trip to either Leeds (year 9) or Warrington (year 8 and 10), both hotbeds of Rugby league competition in the country. Fantastically, both the older year groups gained entry to the semi-finals playing against vastly more experienced and bigger schools. They did this with skilful, determined and courageous play to surprise their northern opponents.
At the semi-finals, again in Warrington, the stakes were higher and the teams tougher as you would expect. Although Dane Court were ultimately defeated every girl gave everything they had for the team and caused their opponents more than a little anxiety.
In the end experience of regular competition told as Dane Court succumbed to quality play by Castleford Academy year 9 and St Peters school Manchester year 10. The year 9 game in particular was a on a knife edge until the final 2 mins when Castleford, unbeaten for 2 years in the competition, scored the winning try. Their coach a former professional Premiership player, gave lavish praise to the Dane Court girls for their unrelenting efforts.
Also, in both semi-finals a Dane Court student was awarded player of the match, albeit in a losing cause, those being Keira Hulks for year 9 and Holly Enright for year 10.
All the staff and helpers who aided the preparation and travelled with the students can, and do, feel proud of all the girls who lived up to Dane Court’s never-get-up, everything is possible attitude.
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