It has been a busy start to 2017 at DHSB and we have many student stories to share with you. I am positive that this will be an exciting and successful year for our school community.

Physics Olympiad

Congratulations to Robert Waddy and Mike Collingwood who have heard they have a Gold Award (top 50) in the national Physics Olympiad (A level). This is a significant achievement and we’re very proud of them both.

Rob and Mike are seen here leading an extra lunchtime Physics lesson with Year 12 students.

Plymouth Herald Sports Awards

We’re delighted that two students have been nominated for a Plymouth Herald Sports Award 2016.

Owen Weymouth (Year 13) has been nominated in the Champagne Moment category and Ross Martin (who left us in 2014) for his contribution as a Sports Official.

You can read the whole story here.

Owen is pictured at the European Cliff Diving Competition (20 metres) in August 2016 where he was crowned champion.

Students of the Week

Each week we recognise a student or group of students who have been nominated for our Student of the Week award for a variety of reasons.

Here are the students who received this award during the Autumn term.

Morgan Anniss 11C, Sam Voden 11S, Michael Harley 11P, Harrison Jones 11P, Alfie Carlisle 11W All five assisted a student who had suffered a severe asthma attack.

Zack Wallis 10P Raising £600 in aid of the children’s wards at Derriford Hospital.

Travis Christopher 6W1 and Dexter Vernall-Williams 6C2 Outstanding citizenship.

Emilio Moreno-Chamorro 9N Winning two silver medals in his categories, U13 and 13-17 at the World Kickboxing and Karate Union World Championships.

Joey Van De Griend 7S Assisting a member of staff that had fallen, showing that he is a great citizen of the school.

Kristian Davis 10N Support for the school and for being reliable and dependable.

Angus Fry C61 and Kieran Wong 6C2 Contributing to the local homeless community by working in a soup kitchen.

Andrew Brown 10S Organising and taking part in a 100 mile charity bike ride to raise money for a charity trip to Mexico next year where he will be going to build a school for the local people.

Chris Mumford 10E Taking the lead in a situation which required first aid.

Ben Bowden 10S, Sam Wonnacott 10E and Jake Cotton 10E As members of the Peer Mentor Team they worked well at the Literacy and Numeracy Workshop.

Leo White Supporting a member of the public who needed assistance.

James O’Connell, Alan Joshy, James Casey, Alfie Carlisle, Tahmid Ahmad First class ambassadors for DHSB.

Well done to all our Students of the Week

Sports News

Football

Well done to our Year 11 football team – through to the Plymouth Cup semi-final.

Mr Manley said the team did well to beat Marine Academy 3 – 2 to secure their place in the next round of the competition.