This week Our annual Carol Service at St Paul’s, Crofton was one of our best ever. The church was full and everyone enjoyed a mix of traditional and modern music together with nine lessons read by pupils and staff. We are grateful to the PSFA who prepared and served mince pies and mulled wine afterwards. This, together with the amazing performances by our students more than made up for the terrible weather outside. This week, Year 7 received a brand…
Congratulations to all who entered the inaugural Darrick Wood School Christmas Card Competition. The standard of entry was extremely high, with many excellent pieces commended for their effort. The first place was given to Oliver Watson, followed by Aqil Ahmed and Angela Veickovska in third place. Congratulations!
This week With all that is happening in the world of politics at the moment we were delighted this afternoon to welcome to the School, Jo Johnson MP. Mr Johnson attended a ceremony to formally open our extended Dining Hall, new PE changing rooms and Movement and Performing Arts Building. Governors, Senior Prefects, Student Leadership Council representatives, current and former staff attended the short ceremony along with our builder and architect. We were particularly happy that former Head Teacher Mrs…
This week Pupils in Year 11 have now finished the vast majority of their mock examinations. The results will be distributed in a special ceremony on Friday, 11th January 2019. The distribution of the new dinner fobs has started. Pupils who have not yet received theirs should see their Form Tutor in the first instance. We have already noticed an improvement in queuing times. New Darrick Sports (the School’s Sports Centre) is open every evening, weekend and through the holidays….