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  • 05/05/22

    Year 8 Rounders Match Report - 3/5/22

      The sun has made an appearance, which means it is now rounders season! Miss Brown took the Year 8 rounders team to their first fixture at Notre Dame, where we faced Eggbuckland Community College. Captain Lucy gave us a good start with winning the toss for us to field first. The girls st...
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  • 05/05/22

    Mental Health Awareness Week

    Dear Parents/Carers This week is Mental Health Awareness week, and the focus is ‘Loneliness – Finding our connections to feel less lonely.’ Below is a link to a guide for parents and carers to support your child if you are worried they are struggling with emotional loneliness...
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  • 08/04/22

    Coombe Dean Music Awards 2022

    After three years off the stage, what a delight it was to be able to host the Music Awards Evenings this year and welcome a live audience back in! Thanks to all the hard work from students and staff within the Music Department, the two evenings were a huge success. They consisted of numerous outs...
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  • 04/04/22

    Whole School Community Walk

    We're delighted that Coombe Dean School will be running its annual Community Walk on Friday 8th July!  The day will be a fantastic event that will bring together all members of both our school, and the wider community. We intend to use the proceeds to support the pupil enrichme...
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  • 28/03/22

    Year 9 Curriculum Choices 2022

    Dear Year 9 pupils, their parents and carers, The new Curriculum Choices Booklet was added to your dedicated webpage on Friday (link below), along with the choices Form. The curriculum choices presentations are available here, along with all the videos for the subjects that are available. h...
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  • 21/03/22

    For Families of MKC Heroes...

    An opportunity has come up for the families of MKC Heroes which as a school we are part of.    Please read the information below.  Lunch and access to the event will be provided by the Royal British Legion.  Any accommodation and travel will not be funded.    It i...
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  • 14/03/22

    Well Done Our Year 11

    At the end of what will have felt like another intense 8 days of formal mock examinations, I wanted to take the opportunity again to recognise the manner in which our students in Year 11 have conducted themselves. This applies equally to the time leading up to this period of assessment and to the ti...
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  • 09/03/22

    City College Chefs Competition

    City College Plymouth gave school pupils across the city the challenge to design a three-course meal suitable for athletes that included mackerel, chicken breast and forced rhubarb. These dishes not only had to show skill, but consideration of nutritional needs of athletes, which had a balance of fl...
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  • 08/02/22

    Cardiff Maths Inspiration Lectures

    On Tuesday 1st February we took 48 of our most able Year 11, 12 and 13 mathematicians to the Maths Inspiration Lectures in Cardiff. The lectures are designed to motivate and inspire young people, with a focus on real life applications of mathematics. This session included talks from Rob Eastaway, be...
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  • 04/02/22

    Fun at Science Club!

    This week at Science Club, our pupils once again carried out some more exciting experiments. They learned about how a catalyst can be used to speed up a chemical reaction... First they watched a demonstration of elephants toothpaste, which shows how hydrogen peroxide can be broken down very quick...
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  • 03/02/22

    Success at the Plymouth Schools Athletics Event

    This week, ten Coombe Dean pupils took part in the Plymouth Schools Athletics Event. There were a variety of track and field events, such as shot put, relays and lots of jumping. Massive well done to David O for winning all his races and to Aimee N for throwing the shot put the furthest...
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