On Thursday 22nd September Google Expeditions Pioneer Program visited our school armed with 60 headsets to take our students and pupils on a journey with their virtual reality app. We were the fourth school to take part in this new venture. Expeditions is a virtual reality app built for the classroom and has over 200 places of interest to help bring lessons to life. ICT and Science pupils put on the viewing headsets and a variety of teachers led them…
Year 11 students achieved some of the best GCSE results the School has ever recorded. 82% of the year group achieved A*-C in both English and Mathematics. 27% of all grades were A* or A. Our headline figures are: Progress 8 Score +0.36 Attainment 8 Score +57.45 Percentage of pupils who’ve achieved grade C or above in English and Mathematics at the end of KS4: 82% Percentage of pupils who’ve achieved the English Baccalaureate: 48% Congratulations to all students. The following…
Another excellent year for Darrick Wood and congratulations to all of our A level students. 49% of results were graded A*-B and there were some superb individual performances, including: Katie Ryan, with 3A* and 1A Elizabeth McGrath, with 2A* and 2A Sophie Ball, with 3A* Amelia Bennett, with 2A* and 1A Megan Donaghy, with 2A* and 1A Matthew Witchalls, with 1A* and 3A Rory Bennett, with 1A*, 2A and 1B Georgia Brooks, with 1A*, 2A and 1B Monisha Dhar, with 1A*, 2A and…
Next week (12th – 14th July 2016) is Darrick Wood School STEM Week. The week will see pupils from years 7, 8 and 9 take part in a variety of tasks. Please download the information for parents and carers here, for additional information: Parent and carer information – STEM Week 2016 We look forward to a fantastic STEM Week 2016!
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Last term a group of 15 year 10 pupils attended a Medical Day at Bromley College, along with pupils from two other Bromley Schools. They had the opportunity to take part in hands on practical workshops. In one workshop the pupils were provided with patient histories, laboratory results and X-rays to diagnose patients. In another workshop they completed CPR and learnt the recovery position for an unconscious casualty and then had the opportunity to discuss medical ethics. Here they got…
On Monday, 18th April 2016 over 70 Darrick Wood pupils collected both bronze and gold awards at the annual Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Ceremony in the Civic Centre, Bromley. This year, Darrick Wood saw the highest pass rate of participants who completed their DofE in the borough. It was also a record number for Darrick Wood School! In order to be awarded with the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Darrick Wood pupils helped our local community, putting in a total of over…
Darrick Wood School has been nationally recognised for its exceptional 2015 performance by the Schools, Students and Teachers network (SSAT). Educational Outcomes data analysis from SSAT has shown that the school is in the top 10% of non-selective schools nationally for high average grades achieved by students and the top 20% nationally for progress made by pupils between their key stage 2 results at primary school and their key stage 4 results. The school’s SSAT Educational Outcomes awards will be…
On Thursday, April 14th, Year 13 Government and Politics groups were engaged in a political discussion with a group of US high school students from Kenston High School in Ohio. The American students answered a whole range of question from our sixth formers who study US Government and Politics as part of their A level studies and posed some of their own. This was jointly organised by Mr Cozens and Mrs Buchanan for Darrick Wood School and Mrs Smith, a Politics…