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Ben Parsons and Joe Blackburn continue to represent the College brilliantly with the U16 Exeter Chiefs Academy. On Friday, the boys played Worcester Warriors at Sixways, one of the leading premiership rugby grounds in the Country. The boys hope to continue to learn and develop at Sandy Park as they go into Post-16. They have an outstanding attitude, both on […]
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Earlier in the year, Attenborough’s Army (Eco club), raised nearly £100 holding a book fair. We have used some of the money to purchase two trees which we have planted over the last couple of weeks. We planted a Bramley Apple and a Cherry tree in the wildlife garden. We hope that they will attract insects and birds. We also […]
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I would just like to say from Clyst Vale Community College we are so grateful and honoured to be part of project rugby. Our school have had a memorable and enjoyable day learning how to play competitive rugby and new skills. The excitement from the players today has shown how this experience has motivated others to take part in women’s […]
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Yesterday 40 excited students took part in the BBC Young Reporters Day. Working in groups, students researched, filmed and edited their own stories all based on different events. Each group was assigned a ‘technical expert’ from year 8 or 9 which really aided students’ learning about how to edit their stories and it was fantastic that the year 8 and […]
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We are delighted to hear that our former student Frazer Loveman has achieved great success at University. Frazer studied History and Politics at Southampton University after achieving excellent A level results with us. He studied for a year at the University of Western Australia as part of his course. He was awarded a First Class Honours Degree from Southampton in […]
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The photos show our Harry Patch Peace Garden in early springtime. It’s encouraging to see that the bulbs planted last year by our Post 16 students are coming to life again. Mrs H Padden Head of History Teacher of Politics
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As part of our Year 9 History course, students have been learning about medicine in the trenches in the First World War. The role of women is hugely important in this topic of course. Some of our Year 9 girls have been willing to dress up in the uniform of the time to look at the work done by these […]
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Tom Palmer in Year 13 has been a star of many school productions, including the recent superb production of Annie. Just before February half term 2019 he had an audition at the London College of Music. Whilst he was on the trip to Washington DC he received an email from the college to say that he has been successful. He […]
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The Clyst Vale trip to Washington DC was a huge success this February. The students involved were Mia Hart, Sam Terrett, Owen Potter, Thomas Hannaford, (all from Year 12) and Lewis Haynes, Joe Nisbet, Tom Palmer, Jake Faulkner, Matt Pearse, Hannah Nordqvist, Kelsey Marriott and Eleanor Sansbury (from Year 13) We were concerned about the US Government shutdown but fortunately […]
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We sent two teams to the EDF Hinkley Point C STEM Challenge. 12 teams attended this event held at Cranbrook Education Campus, to design, build and “road test” a robot. Clyst Vale 1 Team (Joe, Eve, India, Ben) engineered an ambitious robot, which was upset by ambient light conditions and so unable to perform at its best, but Clyst Vale […]
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