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Vacancy: IT Technician

Ivy Education Trust IT TechnicianIvy Education Trust is seeking to appoint an Information Technology Technician. The post holder will be responsible for providing hardware, software and systems suppor...

The Chicago Bears

Dawlish College were fortunate to be chosen as part of the Chicago Bears NFL 'Mini Monsters' UK Tour. Year 5s from Gatehouse, Kenton, Starcross and Westcliff and our Year 7s from Dawlish took part in ...

Meet The Author

On Thursday 13th July we had 2 fabulous reward workshops for students in years 7 and 8 who had made good progress with their Accelerated Reading this year. These workshops were given by local Teignmou...

Memorial Project

This term, a number of students have been working on two projects in memory of Albina, a Ukrainian student at Dawlish College who sadly passed away earlier this year.The students have designed and cre...

Student Of The Month

Congratulations to our latest Students Of the Month - Hannah and Alfred. Both were nominated by staff for their effort and contribution to college life. Here's a few of the nominations to show just wh...

Cream Tea Time!

Students were treated to a cream tea recently to celebrate their performance for the Kings Coronation. Well deserved! You were all excellent ambassadors for the college.

PE Charity Event

PE Charity Event at Dawlish CollegeRecently, the PE department organised a whole school charity event for this year's chosen college charity, ‘Jays Aim’. A number of the college staff had already been...

FA Woman's Final Trip

We recently took some lower school students to the Woman's FA Cup FinalWe travelled to Wembley to see the Woman's FA Cup Final, Chelsea v Manchester United, after a well battled game Chelsea were the ...

Coronation Celebrations

During Coronation weekend, students took part in the coronation celebrations in Dawlish. A right royal performance! Well done to all involved, you were fantastic ambassadors for the college. Thank you...

Running For Charity

As you may have been aware, a small group of staff from Dawlish College took part in the Plymouth 10k and Half Marathon in aid of raising money for the school's charity for this year: Jay's aimAs it s...

Monica Shanta artist workshop

Year 10 Art students were given a 1-day Digital Collage workshop using nature as their inspiration, working alongside the artist Monica Shanta.As a starting point, the students were given the space of...

Archway Project Success

Congratulations to Austin, Cody and Leon who have completed the archway as part of the gardening project. The students showed good resilience, improving their accuracy and skills in making the joints ...

College Food Bank

Huge thanks to Dawlish Co-op who have donated, and delivered, £100 worth of food for our college food bank. The haul includes long life products such as pasta, rice, tinned foods and sauces to help ma...

Motor Vehicle Experience

Recently, a group of year 10 students were taken to South Devon College for a taster session within the Motor Vehicle Department, where they completed some design work with the body finishing centre a...

Book A Tour 2023-4

Welcome to the college! Click on the link below to book a tour and find out more about the college.Book A TourWelcome To Dawlish Video

Taekwondo Success

At the weekend Madison took part in the UK ITF Spring Nationals Taekwondo Championships and got Gold in Patterns.This was an amazing achievement and took great courage to take part. There were nerves ...

La Galette des Rois

During the month of January, the MFL team have been celebrating Epiphany with the French traditional cake “La Galette des Rois” (King’s Cake). This year we shared the experience of tasting a Galette d...

England Hockey Veterans Visit

We were lucky enough to have England Hockey Veterans join us again this year, choosing to use the Astro for their annual tournament, allowing us front row seats to watch their matches unfold.Before th...

Volunteer Police Cadet Unit

Devon and Cornwall Police Cadets are looking to recruit some new volunteer members. if you are between 13-18 years old and interested in finding out more, check out the information below!Police Cadets...

Careers Support For Parents

INVESTIN parent event series is designed to give parents the essential tools they'll need to support their child on their career journey. Events are run by leading experts and are free to attend.They ...

Breakfast Offer

Innovate, our catering provider, are now offering a breakfast service in Millennium Hall from 7.45am. Please see the attached flyer for details, including the offer of free porridge for all students.W...

Art Workshop

A large number of Year 8 students recently spent time working with Steve Buckler to produce some work inspired by a range of techniques in Art. The day was funded by The Helen Foundation and we are ve...

National Apprenticeship Information

Building Greater Exeter have many useful resources about Apprenticeships in Construction and the Built Environment, not only for students but for parents as well. They are:• Apprenticeships Page Appre...

Colour In Nature

We are delighted to publish our ten chosen entries for the Dawlish Waters Rotary Photography competition, in both the Intermediate and Senior Groups. The theme was 'Colour in Nature' and students were...

Rewards Trips

At the end of the winter term College ran a reward trip to Hound Tor, Dartmoor, with the 15 top achieving students in Yr10 based on ATL (Attitude to Learning) scores selected to attend the climbing an...

Dawlish Community Larder

British Council International School Award success for Dawlish CollegeDawlish College has been awarded Intermediate level of the British Council’s prestigious International School Award in recognition...

Westcliff Create Speed!

We were delighted to welcome Yr 5 Holcombe Class from Westcliff Primary into the college recently. Mrs Mort and the Design Technology Department have been working on a joint project based around space...

Transition

For students, parents and carers of those joining us in September, below is the video link for the Transition video. We hope you enjoy it!Transition Video

Year 10 Art Workshop

The Helen foundation kindly financed and supported our Year 10 Art students with a one day Artist workshop run by James Hedge, exploring Identity in relation to Climate crisis.In preparation for the w...

Sex Education Focus

The teaching of Relationship and Sex Education is not only mandatory, but extremely important to help develop and broaden our learner's personal journey. I was really heartened to see the way in which...

UKMT Maths Challenge 2021

This week we have 70 students from years 7 and 8 taking part in the UKMT Maths Challenge; a 60-minute, multiple-choice competition aimed at students across the UK.It encourages mathematical reasoning,...

Twinning Association Donation

Dawlish College was delighted to receive a donation from the Dawlish Twinning Association to support work in the Modern Foreign Languages Faculty. As a town, Dawlish is twinned with Carhaix-Plouguer i...

Remote Education Provision January 2021

For details of our remote education provision, please click on the link below:Remote Education Provision January 2021

Thank You!

Thank you to all parents who sent through such kind words for staff. I was overwhelmed by the many emails from parents after my plea. Below are just some of the many words of praise from our parent co...

Devon County Council COVID-19 Update

Dear Parent/Carer,We’ve had a good start to the academic year in Devon, with more than 90% of pupils back in school, which is excellent.There’s always a rise in the number of bugs and illness at the s...

Learning Centre Gets Top Recognition

We are so very proud that our learning centre managers have recently been recognised nationally for their fantastic work.Mrs Meredith and Mrs Cotton were recently commended by the Society of Authors, ...

A Message from staff May 2020

A few words from staff during this difficult time. We hope you are well and keeping safe.....but we miss you!But we miss you...

Licensed for D of E

We are delighted to announce that Dawlish College is now officially a licensed centre for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is the world's leading youth achievement awar...

Dawlish Remembers

The Last Post played at Dawlish CollegeYesterday morning, as part of Remembrance activities at Dawlish College, year 7 and 8 students were given a very moving Remembrance Assembly by the Head of Colle...

OFSTED Inspection 2019

I am delighted to be able to share with you the outcome of our recent Ofsted inspection Overall Effectiveness GoodEffectiveness of leadership and management GoodQuality of teaching, learning and asses...

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