Posted on: 07/07/2017Year 12 students take part in Psychology competition at Royal Holloway UniversityOn Friday 30th June a group of Year 12 psychologists visited the Royal Holloway University of London to take part in a competition against other schools in the country. The posed question was: ‘How can you use psychology in your everyday life?’, and to answer this we had to send in a 3 minute video and prepare a display board for the day of the competition. One of ...
Posted on: 03/07/2017Congratulations to Megan on her SelectionWe are delighted to announce that Megan Hughes 7NSG has been selected to play Maud in the CBBC series of "The Worst Witch". This is a really prestigious role in which Megan fought off thousands of potential "Mauds" to be appointed. The series, which is being filmed at the moment, will air in January 2018. A massive congratulations to Megan.
Posted on: 29/06/2017Takeover Day at DGS!The 29th June saw our annual Junior Takeover Day arrive at Didcot Girls’ School which was, as always, an unforgettable experience for all of the girls that took part. Takeover Day is both important and brilliant fun because it gives us a fascinating insight into what life is like in the work environment and also helps us to develop life skills like leadership and public ...
Posted on: 23/06/2017DGS has Entered the Dulux 2017 Smarter Spaces Competition The prize up for grabs is £10,000 that will go towards the design and redecoration of The Croft and Science labs. The application can be strengthened by lots of social media coverage of our application. Please help us by: Retweeting the @DGS_Science and @DidcotGirls Tweets Sharing the Fac...
Posted on: 19/06/2017Year 9 Geographers visit Westmill Solar and Wind FarmOn Thursday 15th June a group of Year 9 Geographers visited Westmill solar and wind farm outside Swindon for a 'Clean Energy Futures' event. They spent the day finding out about cutting edge renewable energy technology and were given fieldwork experience where they examined biodiversity and land use change in the area surrounding the wind turbines. The gi...
Posted on: 15/06/2017DGS and SBS Students Join Together for Energy QuestOn 9th June, Year 7 and 8 students met with their peers at St Birinus School to focus on engineering; working in teams to build and improve devices using sustainable energy sources. Alexis Hunter Craig from Energy Quest workshops along with staff from SBS, supported the teams as they evaluated different renewable energy sources, built an electric car an...
