Wednesday 18th April, 4.30pm - 7.30pm
Year 10
Blogs for Year 10
Y10 Assessment Week
Managing Media Marvellously
In Y10 we have been working on a persuasive unit based on media campaigns. We have used our school as a live topic to work on, specifically the lack of recycling for plastics on site. We have thoroughly investigated a range of persuasive devices such as alliteration, rhyme, rhetorical...
Anti-Bullying Week 2017
Darton College learners will be celebrating their differences during Anti-Bullying week. Learners will be considering how they behave towards each other as well as looking at how prejudice, regarding differences, has lead to the unacceptable treatment of people in the past. At Darton College we aim to create an...
Recycle, Recycle, Recycle!
In Y10 GCSE English we have been working on a recycling campaign to help make DC Green! Persuasive writing devices have been investigated, and we have strategically planned our campaign, selecting which devices to deploy for maximum effect. Operation Recycle is indeed Green for Go! Watch this space…
Book of the Month – October Y10/11 Northern Lights
Lyra and Pantalaimon – her dæmon – live a fun, wild life in Jordan College, Oxford. Lyra’s Oxford is in many ways similar to the one in our world, but the difference is that it is crawling with danger, dæmons, and gobblers… After listening in to an important conference...
Restorative Practice
Over 30 Year 10 learners received training and took up the role of Restorative Practitioner last week. It is our intention to have more than 30 learners in this role in each year group which means there will be many more opportunities throughout the year. Restorative Practice recognises how...
Autobiography
As our learners work towards preparing their own autobiographies for presenting to camera as part of their GCSE coursework, we have been investigating the features of autobiographical writing such as perspective and tense. The text I chose to work on to help with these features may be very self-indulgent,...
Key Stage 4 Summer Reading
Whilst school is officially out for Summer; Key Stage 4 learners may want to seize the opportunity to read around their subjects and get ahead of the game in their quest for the Grade 9. So, with no further ado, here are our top summer recommendations: History Bess of...
The Girl & The Fox
Brilliant start to the new school year in Y10. In this cold writing task using a short animation as the basis for a story Alex used some brilliant vocabulary and showed a great attention to detail in his writing. Well done, a very promising start!