This week recognises World Mental Health Day and here at Dowdales we are launching a fundraising campaign to renovate Dowdales School Memorial Garden. Once renovated, this special space will serve as a quiet reflection area for our Year 11 students during their examination series to support their mental health. The Dowdales School Memorial Garden remembers […]
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Wordsworth Grasmere visited this week to run poetry workshops; using the spines of books in our library to create ‘found poetry’. Students also explored the poem ‘Fish’ by Katie Hale; an awarding writer who runs the poetry workshop Untrodden Ways at Dowdales. It was wonderful to see students engaged with poetry.
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Congratulations to our golfers competing at the Cumbria Schools Golf Competition held in Seascale, in the pouring rain!Team Dowdales won the team event as well as Jospeh and Sienna both winning the U16 nett.Well done Joseph, Toby, Oscar and Sienna.
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We have two new members of the Royal Shakespeare Company Youth Advisory Board. Jess and Noah – were the successful applicants. Applications were open to all students nationally and we are so proud that two of our students were successful in their applications and that they will now work with the RSC to make sure
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Event at Furness College Wednesday 20th March
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Oxley apprentice drop in sessions at the Portland Walk careers hub over half term.
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Oxley Group [in Ulverston] have engineering and business administration apprenticeships on offer that could lead to HR, Finance, Marketing or Project Management roles within the company. Please email CVs to this address: recruitment@oxleygroup.com. http://www.oxleygroup.com
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Interested in a career within beauty therapy or media make-up? There is a free interactive taster session at Lancaster & Morecambe College on Thursday 15th February (half term) and the theme is ‘Queen of Hearts’.
Media Make up course taster 15th Feb Read More »
Myerscough College have course advice mornings coming up
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We finish school
1:10pm on Tuesday 19th December
We wish you all a very merry Christmas and look forward to welcoming students back on
Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Our final day of the school term is Friday 19th July when students finish school at 12.30pm.
We hope you enjoy your summer break and look forward to welcoming back all our students on Wednesday 4th September 2024.
