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“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. Ray Tarleton - PrincipalTo 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...

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Keep up-to-date with events at SDCC by reading our Connection online newspaper.

The students who have been awarded Black Ties this term

Y12 Drama and Theatre Studies students, Malaika and India, in the deerstalker hats, with John, Bill and Gill from Multistory Theatre

Lauren playing Hockey for Wales Senior Ladies Team

 

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The front cover of the Enrichment Week activity bookletEnrichment Week 2010 - new activity booklet launched

The new booklet for the 2010 Enrichment Week in July has now been launched...

Les filles splash in the French waves on the Enrichment Week 09 trip to France

In the yard with the horses on the Horse Rider of the Year activity during Enrichment Week 09

See the photos and read reports of Enrichment week '09 here... 

Enrichment Week '09 reports and photos

South Dartmoor Learning Community

Visit the South Dartmoor Learning Community for the latest news and events including Half Term Activities.

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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.

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Investors in People Gold Award

Investors in People Gold award logoSouth 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

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

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!

London 2012 logoAfter 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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South Dartmoor is a non-smoking site and any students caught smoking in or around the site or students associated with smokers will receive either a lunchtime or afterschool detention.  Please see Praise and Consequence page...

 
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