Welcome to South Dartmoor Online
Posted by Ray Tarleton
“Welcome to our website. South Dartmoor Community College is a Trust School with specialist Sports College and Training School status. An 11-18, co-educational comprehensive school with 1650 on roll and situated within the National Park, it serves a wide rural area of over 350 square miles.
OFSTED (07) graded as ‘outstanding’ the leadership and management, the curriculum, personal development, care, guidance and support, and the Sixth Form. Teaching was judged to be good with outstanding features. 
To read more about the distinctive features of South Dartmoor click here.” Portrait of Ray Tarleton by Liam Hammond
Principal's Blog latest article: Cameron's daft education speech is a bedtime story...
For Ray Tarleton's most recent TES & SecEd articles click here...
South Dartmoor Learning Community
Posted by Matt White
Visit the South Dartmoor Learning Community for the latest news and events including Half Term Activities.
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Sponsor the College Website
Posted by Nat Parnell
If you feel your company would benefit from the thousands of unique visitors that this website received each year, please contact Nat Parnell (nparnell@southdartmoor.devon.sch.uk) for information about placing a banner and link to your website on this page in return for sponsorship. Update: we are currently re-inventing the College website to make it much more interactive. One plan is to take our school praise point system online, providing a virtual cart for students to order rewards from. If you feel you could help with the provision of rewards in return for advertising your company on our site, please get in contact.
Enquire about sponsoring the College website
Investors in People Gold Award
Posted by Nat Parnell
South Dartmoor Community College has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Gold Standard. We have achieved IIP in every cycle for a long time, but the Gold Standard was a very pleasant surprise. Our assessor indicated that we are one of the only schools in Devon or Cornwall to achieve this...
Investors in People Gold Award for South Dartmoor
Investors in People website
South Dartmoor Students Celebrate Best Results Ever
Posted by Nat Parnell
GCSE results at South Dartmoor Community College reached an all-time high this year with 60.2% of students achieving five A*-C grades including English and Maths (the Government’s new benchmark) and 75.3% gaining five A*-C grades overall. This is another increase on last year’s figure and the best ever overall high grade performance recorded by students at the College.
Girls outperformed boys again with 87% of girls compared to 65% of boys achieving the overall five high grade figure. Grades at A* and A were particularly pleasing. Early overall. Value-Added analysis also shows improvement with students achieving almost half a grade on average higher (0.46) compared to national subject figures.
Read the Full Press Release (pdf)
Record A Level Results
Posted by Phil Randall
The "Outstanding" (OFSTED 2007) Sixth Form at South Dartmoor Community College are celebrating their best ever Post 16 examination results. Indeed Post 16 results at South Dartmoor place the College’s achievements consistently above the national average, with last year's results showing that the College added the fourth most value to Sixth Formers in the county. They reflect the hard work and team effort played by students, parents and staff in the Sixth Form.
The females in the class of 2009 have done remarkably well (average points score 768). The males have noticeably narrowed the gender gap from last year and Year 12 AS students have managed to do even better than last year's AS students, making staff very confident of even greater success in the future.
Leaver's SlideshowRead the Full Press Release (pdf)
London 2012 - sign up here!
Posted by Steve Dinnie
After the excitement of the Beijing Games you now have the opportunity to sign up as a volunteer at the Olympic Games when they are held in London in 2012.
Click here to read all the latest South Dartmoor Sports News or here to go straight to the official London 2012 Education web page.
Sports News
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Posted by Nat Parnell
Most of this website can be viewed in a normal browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc.). However, there are some files that are stored in .pdf form, for which you need a reader. Many computers come with this reader installed, but you may need to download it from here:
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