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May 18 Austrian ski trip enjoyed by all!
The ski visit during the Easter holiday was amazing! We had good snow and wonderful sunny conditions.This is now the ninth consecutive year that Dunraven has run the Ski…
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May 15 Dance Splash 2
A second dance splash took place in lower school to very excited lower school students on Thursday 10 May. The dancers performed in the open air outside the canteen to m…
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May 10 Olympic torch visits Dunraven
The Olympic torch relay will be starting on 19 May. Eight thousand people will carry the Olympic torch across the UK, starting in Lands End and finishing in the Olympic …
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May 09 Dunraven Girls' Match Report
The mighty Dunraven girls’ KS3 football team beat Stockwell Park 3-0 on Wednesday 2 May, in an away match, to reach the next round of the London Cup. A …
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May 04 Dance creates a Splash at Dunraven
On Thursday 3 May at lunchtime the atrium was filled with students to watch the most recent Arts Splash by the dance department. The dancers popped, locked and battled to…
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May 04 Step into Dance - pictures!
On 13 April we reported (here) that seven schools, including Dunraven, were competing to win a slot to dance at London's Southbank Centre."Youngsters will be strutting their s…
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May 04 Sport Relief
Sport Relief week in March saw Dunraven students at their best with some great skills on display. Pupils completed challenges in a range of sports, from basketball t…
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May 02 Old Vic Drama Workshop comes to Dunraven
On Friday, 27th of April, The Old Vic New Voices Team participated in a drama workshop, exploring The Duchess of Malfi. This group of Drama and English students in years …
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Year 7 Sustainable House Project
This project was about sustainable houses and all Year 7 students had to design a poster. We firstly learnt about sustainable houses and what features a house needs in o…
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Apr 30 Another wet lunchtime
In most situations, throwing a wet sponge at your teacher might cause a lot of trouble. But on Monday 26 March all of lower school had the chance to do just that, to raise mon…
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Apr 29 Take the stage: Jermaine trains with Phillips Idowu
Lambeth and Dunraven triple jump sensation Jermaine had the opportunity to meet and train with one of his idols, Phillips Idowu.It was all part of a new advertisement ca…
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Apr 29 Dance show
The Dance Show on 29 March was a great success, despite the lack of the Drama Hall because of BSF building work. Students from year 8-12 performed confidently and p…
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Apr 26 Olympic torch visits Dunraven
More soon.…
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Chamber Choir at Clapham Youth Music Festival
On 10 March musicians from Dunraven took part in the annual Clapham Youth Music Festival at Clapham Common.The Chamber Choir sang two pieces: “She’s Like the Swallow”, a …
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Apr 23 Dancers at the Festival Hall
Earlier this year Ms C Andrews selected a group of Year 8 and 9 dancers for a prestigious project with the Rambert Dance Company. This culminated in a…
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Welcome to Dunraven School
The last ten years have seen remarkable progress at Dunraven. For example in 2000, the GCSE outcomes stood at 39%: in 2011 the 5 A*-C figure was 93%. In fact, we’ve just recorded another set of ‘best yet’ results at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 which is a testament to the commitment of the students and the expertise of their teachers. In 2000, the Sixth Form, SL6 and the new building were just a twinkle in the school’s aspirational eye. We now have an ‘outstanding’ Sixth Form and SL6 is the most successful collaboration in this part of London.
Ofsted viewed the school as improving in 2000 and on the verge of outstanding in 2010. The school has helped develop 7 successful headteachers in the past decade and gained a second specialism, High Performing status, Beacon Status, International status, Advanced Healthy School status, Investors in People status for the second and third time, Artsmark, Sportsmark and won a Public Service Award for our landmark sports hall. Dunraven has also been designated as a National Support School (NSS) in recognition of the good work we do in working successfully with and supporting other schools.
One of the reasons for the school’s on-going success has been the ability to control our own destiny and decide the best use for the resources we have been given to better support the progress of our students. To this end, Dunraven became a Grant Maintained school in 1993, a Foundation school in 1999 and, continuing the tradition of independent self-management, became an Academy in August 2011.
We’ve been visited by the Prime Minister and Education Secretary of the day; Headteachers from America, China, Sweden, Norway and Canada; by two Knights, a Baroness and 3 Directors of Children Services in recognition of the work we do for our young people. We’ve also run thousands of educational visits (almost 300 in 2010-11 alone) and hundreds of events to enrich and extend the curriculum. We have developed a strong reputation locally, within London and nationally featuring in positive reports about outstanding schools.
Our Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme has now begun and we are excited that our first new buildings will be in use from October 2011. An updated version of the BSF newsletter, with a summary of the whole building programme, was published at the end of the summer term. You can read it here.
David Boyle
September 2011
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