Darrick Wood Welcomes Bromley Schools Art Competition

Darrick Wood Welcomes Bromley Schools Art Competition

This afternoon, Darrick Wood School hosted a Bromley-wide Key Stage 3 Art exhibition and competition. Darrick Wood School was joined by impressive displays from Ravenswood School, Charles Darwin School and Hayes School. As the photographs below testify, the quality of art, sculpture and photography on display was very high. Congratulations to all the schools who took part, all of whom had celebrated winners, and a particular well done to Hayes School, who won the overall competition. Thank you to everyone…

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Maths Challenge Competition

Maths Challenge Competition

On Wednesday 22nd February, a small group of us participated in the Maths Challenge at St Olaves School.  Myself (Daniel Haughey), Alfie Barnes, Evie Brett and Imogen Edmundson made up the team representing Darrick Wood School. With over 30 schools competing, the day was packed with brain teasing challenges, including a mathematical crossword and a relay! The day began with a short briefing, followed by the first challenge.  This consisted of 20 exam-style questions, designed to stretch our brain and…

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DWS Gym Show

DWS Gym Show

Come and join us at the Darrick Wood Rocks PE Department Gym Show. Wednesday, 29th March 2017 at 7pm in the Main Hall. Tickets can be purchased from School for £3 in advance.

South East London Indoor Athletics Championships – Boys

South East London Indoor Athletics Championships – Boys

Following victory at the Bromley Championships, our Year 7 Boys Team represented Bromley in the South London Regional Final held in Carshalton, Surrey. The boys have trained extremely hard and demonstrated great commitment and dedication to training after school and subsequently performed far beyond expectations. Competing against the top schools from seven other boroughs in South London, our Obstacle Relay team of Jamie Low, Alex Webb, Louis Roberts and Isaac Agyapong got the team off to a great start with…

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Darrick Wood School Welcomes Chinese Visitors

Darrick Wood School Welcomes Chinese Visitors

Earlier this term we were able to welcome a group of Chinese students for a week-long visit to Darrick Wood. They were from a city in north east China, located between Mongolia and North Korea. After a week spent sightseeing they then spent a week in lessons here experiencing all aspects of school life. Pairs of Chinese students were buddied up with a Darrick Wood student who took them to their lessons and looked after them throughout the day. There…

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Reading University Visits Darrick Wood School

Reading University Visits Darrick Wood School

The Chemistry students in Year 12 and Year 13 had the opportunity to use some very special equipment today when former Darrick Wood teacher, Mrs Nuttall, returned in her new role as an outreach coordinator for Reading University. Working in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry Mrs Nuttall brought along £15 000 worth of Infra Red spectrometer, a device used by chemists to analyse and identify unknown chemicals; something students don’t usually see until they go to university themselves….

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South East London Indoor Athletics Championships

South East London Indoor Athletics Championships

Following our success at the Bromley Schools Indoor Athletics Championships, the Year 7 and 8 girls’ teams went on to represent Bromley at the South East London Championships, at the Westcroft Leisure centre, Carshalton. All athletes showed commitment and excellent team work throughout the day participating in numerous events and the final results were: Year 7 Girls finished 6th out of the 8 boroughs and Year 8 Girls finished 2nd out of the 8 boroughs. Year 8 Girls have now…

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Chemical Engineer visits Darrick Wood School

Chemical Engineer visits Darrick Wood School

Former pupil Alex Tait took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Year 10 Triple Scientists and A level Scientists about his work and life as a chemical engineer working for the oil giant BP. Alex who is currently based in Baku, Azerbaijan works as a process engineer on one of the largest oil production projects in the world. He talked about his experiences at Darrick Wood and how he was inspired to take up Chemical Engineering because…

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Darrick Wood School visits the Saxon Day Care Centre

Darrick Wood School visits the Saxon Day Care Centre

Darrick Wood School pupils have been very fortunate to have visited the Saxon Day Care Centre, located just by the Walnuts Centre in Orpington. Here they support many elderly people form the local community and we are delighted that throughout the year we will be visiting the centre. So far we have taken two groups of pupils to visit. Pupils from Year 7 to 13 were selected to recognise the excellent efforts that they have made both inside and outside…

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Wizard of Oz – The School Production

Wizard of Oz – The School Production

Tickets for this year’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” are on sale from today.  They cost £5 for adults and £3 for concessions and can be purchased from pupil reception (before school and at lunch time).  The performance will take place on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th February at 7.30pm in the Main Hall. We look forward to welcoming you to what will be an outstanding production.