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A bumper taster day
Dunottar School’s biggest taster day to date! On Saturday 5th October, we hosted our biggest taster event to date for prospective year 7 pupils wishing to join the school in September 2020. We pride ourselves on delivering education with character, in a nurturing supportive environment; an ethos that has helped quickly establish our school’s reputation…
Inspiring a generation of linguists
Dunottar School this week hosted Languages Week, a diverse celebration of the cultural influences that make learning a new language so exciting. Activities included a taster session in Russian Club, complete with caviar and blinis, a European flag icing workshop, impressionism with Cézanne, lunchtime language workshops and a brilliant performance of Viva España from The Flying theatre. The school lunch…
Team building a strong foundation for friendship
Year seven and year nine pupils from Dunottar School, in Reigate, kick-started this academic year with two adventure-based team-building trips, designed to ‘break-the-ice’ and help forge strong friendships amongst new pupils. The school’s new year seven pupils headed off to Bentley Copse for two days of adrenaline fuelled adventure that included rifle shooting, quad biking…
The official opening of our new Sixth Form Centre
Today saw the official opening of our new state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre, a stunning modern building designed to complement the historic Grade II listed Palladian Mansion that forms the original part of the school. Opened by Sir Jon Coles, CEO of United Learning, alongside Dunottar’s Headmaster Mark Tottman, and The Mayor and Mayoress of Reigate…
Sports themed careers evening
On Tuesday 17th September, our Sports Department hosted a sports and nutrition careers evening, with VIP guests from Sky Sports and the Belfast Telegraph. This was the first in Dunottar’s series of 2019/2020 careers evenings; designed to provide pupils and parents with invaluable access to industry experts to inspire and ignite their curiosity. “This year, we were…
Year 11 Pupils looking forward to starting A Levels!
Well done to Year 11, who have achieved excellent value added results with today’s GCSEs! Today, an impressive third of our students scored at least half a grade higher than national predicted grades across all their GCSE subjects.
Students Celebrate A Level Success at Dunottar
Students at Dunottar School were today celebrating another year of A level success, in which 20% of the grades attained were A*-A.
Dunottar School wins prestigious national Award
Dunottar School is delighted to announce that it has won the prestigious Education Business Award for the ‘Outstanding Progress – UK Independent Schools’ category 2019.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ provides Inspiration for Dunottar School’s Arts Week
Year 7 and 8 pupils from Dunottar School in Reigate have enjoyed time off curriculum to take part in activities that were inspired by Shakespeare’s play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
School Combines Beatboxing with Shakespeare
On Tuesday 2nd July, a group of Year 7 and 8 students from Dunottar School in Reigate enjoyed a day of beatboxing workshops, led by actor, writer, director, rapper, beatboxer, singer and theatre maker Conrad Murray.
