Ditton Park Academy
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DPA’s Open-door Learning Walks (ODLW), our core approach to teachers’ continuing, professional development and learning (CPDL) has been accredited by
@ChallengePartnr
as an Area of Excellence, recognising us as leaders in this field nationally!
The report said this about us:
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DPA was delighted to welcome
@TanDhesi
, MP for Slough, today. He was warmly welcomed & questioned by a large group of 6th form students studying Government & Politics and other level 3 courses. Mr Caulfield, Principal, had a good conversation around local and national issues(1/2)
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Today we had an emotional goodbye to our year 11 students. We wish them all the best and hope that we can give them a proper send off later on this year.
#DPA
#classof2020
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We have been working with
@HerschelGrammar
to produce visors for the
@NHSuk
. We have manufactured 35 head bands using our laser cutter. Herschel are now applying the front panel ready for delivery.
#DPA
#StayHomeSaveLives
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Today would have been curtain up on DPA’s production of
#HighSchoolMusical
. Students were eagerly awaiting performing to an audience so for now we will utilise our twitter audience!
#DPA
#shareyourstage
#performingarts
#disney
#accessthearts
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A huge thank you to all our staff who are demonstrating fantastic Resilience to ensure all our young people are still receiving a fantastic education despite these difficult times.
#DPA
Shout out to all Slough schools doing their very best to manage this challenging situation. Conference call yesterday exploring how to best balance responsibilities to educate and care for children with those for staff H&S.
#sloughschools
@SloughCouncil
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In
#geography
, Ms O’Carroll has been building building a link with Achimota school in Ghana and DPA.
They have sent over some videos introducing themselves. Year 8’s in geography club are currently writing letters to the students. We are so excited about this
#collaboration
!
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Time to say a huge thank you to all of our staff for all they have already done this term!
A huge thank you to our parents and everyone in the DPA community for the continued support you show in these most challenging of times.
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Another year done!
#HappySummer
to all our staff, students and parents/careers who make
#DPA
so successful. Bring on September!
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'Do you think it's important to
#learnlanguages
in a time of google translate?' pt 2. of Chinmayi & Akshata's fantastic response!
@LancasterUni
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Here is an excerpt of Parth playing harpsichord in Eton Concert Hall-Pachelbels Canon in D on a 400 hundred year old instrument!
@EtonPartnership
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It's been a busy morning for us here at
#DPA
. A huge congratulations to all our students on their exam results. We are so proud of all of you. We are delighted with how our first set of GCSE results have gone and we look forward to sharing them with you soon!
#gcseresultsday2019
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A huge congratulations to all our year 11's receiveing their
#gcseresults2020
today. We are so proud of you all!
#DPA
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This is Mobeen, our day cleaner here
@DPASlough
. Mobeen is here circulating the school throughout the day, ensuring that all the high touch areas like door handles, bannisters etc. are kept sanitary. She is doing such a fantastic job. Thank you Mobeen!
#dpahero
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We are incredibly proud of Louise. Her dedication to volunteering and supporting the community, all the while maintaining her studies shows such maturity.
Final moments of preparation for our hosts, Louise and Ananya, for our
#InterFaithWeek
Quiz, in partnership with
@bboundariesuk
! Ananya is also an
@iwill_movement
Ambassador - and this is a fantastic way for the girls to give their time to the community.
#iwillweek
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We’ve got Mr Wain on the mic providing the soundtrack, tunes and witty banter for today’s sports day
#mrdj
#superstardj
@TVAC_Eton
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And that's a wrap! Huge congratulations to the
#Oliver
! Cast for their incredible performances over the last few days. Also a special well done to
@chelseyseymour3
and Mr Post More highlights to follow next week.
#DPA
#Proud
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We are so pleased to report some outstanding achievements by our GCSE & vocational students this summer.
We are incredibly proud of what our yr11’s have achieved with the support of our fantastic staff. We can’t wait to see many of them back in our sixth form!
#resultsday2022
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Our first virtual assembly went out to all students today via TEAMS and includes some great tips for how to enhance your physical and mental health. It also has a positive news story of the week and this message from Mr McNab.
#DPA
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It’s been a busy term indeed but so lovely to finish watching Khalid in year 11 being awarded his prize by
@SloughMusic
service for coming second in the “No Knives” creative writing competition.
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We are pleased to share a strong return to formal exams with excellent A level & vocational qualification results. DPA is incredibly proud of your achievements!
Particular successes
Aryan A*A*A*A
Mariam A*A*A
Namira A*AA
Nia AAB & A* in EPQ
Niharika AAB & A in AS Further Maths
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We are so excited to announce that
#freefruitfriday
will launch at Ditton Park Academy this week in association with
@ShipleysFoods
! All students will be able to collect a free portion of fruit during breaktime.
#HealthyEating
#healthyliving
#5aday
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Our temporary
#CovidTesting
centre is set up and ready to go at Ditton Park Academy. The first staff and students have already been invited to their tests tomorrow in preparation for our staggered opening next week
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Each week staff
@DPASlough
submit staff praise for colleagues that have made a positive difference to them, with nominations and a weekly winner shared on a Friday. Last week our
#DPAhero
is Ms Grantham for ensuring the MFL department ran smoothly in a challenging week.
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What a beautiful way to start the week. Ria Sokhi playing the
@Fazioli_Pianos
grand piano at
@Eton_College
concert hall-the Fazioli is probably the best piano in the world and superbly played by Ria. Thanks to
@EtonPartnership
for providing this opportunity for our students.
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It’s great to be different!
Ditton Park Academy has recently joined The Thames Valley Neurodiversity Umbrella Project 2024, offering us the amazing opportunity to celebrate once again Neurodiversity in our school!
@brighter_ft
@ADHDFoundation
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A huge well done to Miss Daly who has completed the April
#100kmvirtualrace
for
@SandsUK
and managed to raise £1535 which is incredible!
#DPA
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Today we encouraged staff and students to
#wearitpink
and raise money for
@BreastCancerNow
and
@CR_UK
What a beautiful vision of pink outfits at staff briefing this morning! 💓💓💓💓
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She won! Well done Louise, we are all so proud of you here at DPA.
#dpa
#SloughAwards18
The winner of the Young Volunteer of the Year is Louise Ellis, an amazing achievement & she’s only 13!
#SloughAwards18
@ExpressSeries
@sloughobserver
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On Friday 6th, 25 students decided to brave the weather and sleep homeless at
#DPA
to raise awareness, money and warm clothing for
@SloughHomeless
. Well done to all students and staff involved.
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As part of the daily challenges to raise funds for the NHS,
#dpa
staff took part in a virtual workout hosted by Mrs Williams. It's fair to say it was a sweaty one! Well done to all who took part.
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This holiday our year 11 pupil premium students are receiving a homemade recipe kit bag to try at home with the family. A huge thank you to our food tech department for sorting these out.
#DPA
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We are thrilled to share that William in year 11 spoke at the "Celebrating Diversity Conference" at Windsor Racecourse on Wednesday. He spoke on a panel in front of an audience and shared his experience of neurodiversity.
We are so proud of William!
@sloughcvs
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We are delighted to be welcoming back years 10 & 12 today, all be it with a few changes to normal!
#DPA
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It's 5 stars for our canteen here at
#DPA
. Huge congratulations to the restaurant staff who work incredibly hard to produce some amazing food for our staff, students and visitors.
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Playing us into the weekend is Year 9 Aaron with Mozart’s “Rondo Alla Turca” great effort Aaron! wishing a restful weekend to all our staff, students and families!
@mozartplayers
@ClassicFM
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A huge well done to students Chinmayi and Akshata, who have received their certificates for their participation in the University of Lancaster's 2021 Foreign Language Competition
@LancasterUni
@DeLCLancaster
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With only a few weeks to go till Christmas we've decorated our trees. Thanks to the ladies in the office and the students from the GTC for all their work, they look wonderful
#XmasatDPA
#Christmas
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Thankyou to all our staff and parents who donated sanitary products for
@RedBoxProject
.
#DPA
#EndPeriodPoverty
#FreePeriods
#KindnessMatters
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3 weeks to
#HighSchoolMusical
and for the first time we have students playing live in the pit! 1st band call with the talented Emmanuel on drums!
#DPA
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Drama students had the amazing opportunity to see
@HamiltonMusical
and have a Q&A session with the performers the other day and they loved it!
#Drama
#Extracurricular
#DPA
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What a term! A few images from our annual staff celebration, where everyone was in the festive mood. Wishing all our students, staff and families a restful and Happy Christmas. Thank you to everyone who has supported the education of our students this year.
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The Maths Department at DPA have donated our old spec textbooks to Getuya Mixed Day Secondary school in Kenya. Most schools in Kenya are fee paying & students are expected to source their own learning materials. One of our teachers attended this school & we are so happy to help!
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Huge congratulations to Lauren Swann (year 11) who has had her photo shortlisted for the final round of the
#NationalSchoolPhotographyAwards2019
. Good luck Lauren!
@NSPA2018
#DPA
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Our very own budding
#philosophers
!
#Philosophy
makes up a big part of
#ReligiousStudies
lessons at DPA. Here, a Year 9 class is having their fortnightly session with the
@RIPhilo
. Students were introduced to
#Epistemology
& asked to consider "Can we really know anything?"
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Our skiers have really been developing their skills! Great work everyone.
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We are so proud to announce that Aarun was successful at the Articulation prize heat
@MK_Gallery
today with his talk on Hokusai’s “ The Great Wave off Kanagawa”
He is through to represent DPA at the Grand final
@NationalGallery
in March. Well done!
#articulationprize
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Another great entry from Arjun D to the
@LancasterUni
@DeLCLancaster
competition 'Do you think it's important to
#learnlanguages
in a time of google translate?'
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Thank you
@inspireski
! Our students are all very excited - we will be sharing their adventure on here.
Wishing happy travels to
@DPASlough
as they head out to Andorra for an incredible ski trip at Vallnord.
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Massive Congratulations to Year 7 Boys Football on beating
@Westgate_Slough
3-2 last night to become Champions of Slough. With a hat-trick from Ranvier and some great saves from Taylor.
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We are so proud of Jeremy who delivered a brilliant assembly today to raise awareness for
#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth
Today the mayor of Slough came to DPA to recognise Jeremy's bravery and strength.
@Nazirslough
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What a lovely way to start the week - we have received this kind message from one of our parents and it has made our day! Have a great week everyone.
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Fantastic performance by the cast of Trafficked
@TheCurveSlough
yesterday. Very proud
#CSEDay18
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Today we said
#HelloYellow
this
#WorldMentalHealthDay
by wearing yellow and raising money for
@YoungMindsUK
#DPA
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Calling all students and staff! Our
#PE
department will be setting some weekly challenges for you to do. Can you beat the PE staff??? Head over to TEAMS to submit your entries. The first challenge has been set by Mr Wade.
#DPA
#Beattheteacher
#StayHomeSaveLives
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We are very proud of all our students who were nominated for an award at the
#SloughYouthAwards
. We cannot mention them all but special mentions to Gagandeep Hanspal (runner up for young sportsperson) & Louise Ellis (shortlisted for the young volunteer award).
@SY_Parliament
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After an action packed morning at
#dpa
we want to wish all our staff, students, parents, carers and friends a very
#HappyChristmas
. See you all on 6th January.
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Yesterday evening we celebrated the successes of our 2021 6th form leavers with a
#prizegiving
evening. It was fantastic to acknowledge the accomplishments of our students hard work,
#resilience
and
#perseverance
. We wish you all the best for your bright futures!
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Our virtual
#RemembranceDay2020
event yesterday looked very different to usual, but everyone still had the chance to reflect on those who have made sacrifices for our freedom. Beautiful installation of student made
#poppies
in the quad accompanied poetry read by our 6th form.
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Today we had a fantastic
#ChristmasJumperDay
our students and staff brought in donations for
@Sloughfoodbank
and wore their most festive hats, jumpers and accessories. Special mention to Ms Mohamed who outdid herself again with this ensemble!
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It's been a lovely
#WorldBookDay2024
!
Our annual competition to decorate our classroom doors has generated some beautiful outcomes. We love the Willy Wonka corridor in the GTC!
We are very proud of the students for their work putting together the visual elements.
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Yesterday we said goodbye to our year 13 students, lots of whom have been students at Ditton Park Academy since the school first opened and were the very first to call themselves DPA students! We are so proud & wish you all the best for your future.
#leavers
#classof2021
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We are constantly striving to expand our
#vocabulary
here
@DPASlough
- our
#wordoftheweek
this week is "subordinate" and we are challenging students to use it confidently in a sentence. Thank you
@FunkyPedagogy
for the excellent resources.
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Lots more action shots from the ski trip! Great to see you all having a good time.
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Wishing all a Happy Diwali to all of our students, families and staff. Beautiful photography by Charvi in year 11
#Diwali2021
#Diwali
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A massive thankyou to everyone in our school community who donated items for
@Sloughfoodbank
. All the items were delivered to the foodbank on Thursday by some of our pupils.
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Our U13s had their first football match this week. They showed great effort and had great coaching from our Year 11's/sixth form. We lost to Trevelyan Middle school, but that won't stop us - well done to all involved!
#football
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Our new
#Wellbeing
Center is now open. The aim is to support students and staff at
#DPA
with anything to do with
#wellness
or
#mentalhealth
.
#WellbeingInEducation
#MentalHealthAwarenessDay
#MentalHealthMatters
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Last day of the year (can you believe it!) We hope you all have a fantastic summer. See you in September.
#DPA
#schoolsoutforsummer
#summerholidays
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Look what our students have come back with from the district athletics competition today! Huge congratulations to all who took part. Especially the year 7 boys and year 9 girls who won!
#DPA
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Our prize giving this year has looked a little different to our usual big ceremony to acknowledge the successes and hard work of our students. Today the first batch of Principal's awards were awarded to students that have really demonstrated the qualities we commend. Well done!
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We are starting off today by celebrating the successes last term of our GTC students. Well done everyone!
#Champions
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Happy
#WorldBookDay2019
. There has been loads going on here at
#DPA
to celebrate, including a door decorating competition, the great book exchange, special reading names, book reviews, a book token design competition and tomorrow a visit from Mark Walden.
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Our PE department have set their next
#PEchallenge
. Who can beat Mr Tattersall's wall sit time. Head over to TEAMS find out more.
#DPA
#StayInWorkOut
#StayHomeSaveLives
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This week we have hit 1,000 followers! Thank you everyone that follows us and helps us celebrate the fantastic achievements of our students and all of our endeavours here at Ditton Park Academy.
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Mrs Mckay says well done to the following students for 100% Triangles Quiz:
Aleena F
Aarna M
Jeevan S
Jaini S
100% maths homework;
Adam A
Aarti C
Adrian K
Ibby N
Jiwan S
Taran S
Vishan A
Intisar A
Alishba B
Fatema D
Zoya H
Hadiqa K
Yusuf K
Krishan S
Yuvraj S
Dennis S
Romanna T
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Just a few of our
#WorldBookDay
staff outfits from today! How many characters can you name?
#worldbookday2022
#teaching
#dittonparkacademy
#lovebooks
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An emotional farewell to our year 11's today. Wishing you all the best of luck for the future!
#leavers2021
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What a lovely tweet to have pop up on our twitter feed on the first day back after half term! - we are incredibly proud of Arjan, keep up the fantastic work!
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DPA once again took part in the annual
@SSF_UK
held in Bracknell last Wednesday. The production of A Midsummer Nights Dream was a complete & huge success. Both students & audience enjoyed the nights events & were treated to a fine DPA performance to close the night! Well done!!
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We are so excited to welcome our new students in year 7 and 12 to DPA this morning! A chance to get to know your academic mentors and an introduction to all the great things we do.
#firstdayofschool
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The first
#halfterm
of 2021 comes to a close & DPA would like to say
#thankyou
to all our families, staff & students for all their hard work- you are our
#heroes
! We’d like to share the amazing
#talent
of our year 11 student Mariam Kiwelo and her incredible voice.
@MariahCarey
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