"Empowering our students to be confident and self-motivated learners who have respect for others and clear aspirations for their future success."
Congratulations to Miss Salway who donated 30cm of her hair to The Little Princess Trust over the summer. She would like to express her thanks to everyone who donated through her Just Giving Page which hit her £550 target the day before she had her hair cut. Please use the link below if you would l…
We were delighted to welcome representatives from the local group, People of Colour Isle of Man, to our staff meeting this morning. Elsa, Dominique and Catherine, all former students on the Isle of Man, spoke about their lived experience during their time in education and gave suggestions as to how…
Our former student Amelia Sharpe joins professional cycling team, NXTG Racing from 2021 on a two-year contract. She is looking forward to her step towards the UCI level. “ It is really excited to join NXTG. My goals for the next year are to develop as a rider and become more knowledgeable on racing…
We have just had it confirmed by Cambridge International Exam Board that they too will honour all Centre Assessed Grade judgements made by schools. Students and parents are asked not to approach individual teachers to ask for grades, centre assessed grades will be issued formally once the school ha…
On Monday 17th August, Northern Ireland, Wales and then England joined Scotland in stating that all Centre Assessed A level and GCSE grades would be honoured and replace those published, or about to be published, by their Examination Boards. This is a positive announcement as it will mean a number…
On Thursday 13th August our Year 13 students received their A Level examination results. Despite all that the students have had to endure and some issues with the exam board grading, they have done extremely well and the vast majority received excellent results. Our grade distribution is as follows…
Thursday 13th August is A Level Results Day. All Y12 and Y13 students will be emailed their results at 8am in the morning via their school 'online' gmail account. The school will then be open from 9am for Year 13 students only to come and collect their results in person and members of the Sixth For…
Congratulations to all the winners and well done to all students who have received merits, accolades or achievements for their hard work during this academic year. There will be more prize draws starting in September. The winners were: Amazon Fire tablets Year 7 – Chloe 7C Year 8 – Eden 8F Year 9 –…
As well as our internal school review, DESC are currently conducting an island-wide survey of the Home Learning that took place during the lockdown period. Can I encourage all parents and students to share their views on this and take part. A link to the survey can be found below. DESC HOME LEARNIN…