Hanging from the walls and standing on plinths at The Burton Gallery in Bideford are hundreds of pieces of beautiful art works from all around our county, including work submitted from primary and secondary schools from Key Stages 1, 2, 3, GCSE and A Level work.
Year 10 Food and Nutrition pupils have been given the opportunity to prepare and cook a range of dishes using Alaskan Salmon provided through the Fish Heroes School Programme. The pupils created three different flavoured Salmon bites served with homemade Garlic Mayonnaise for the school community to taste.
Our Year 10 GCSE Drama pupils have spent many weeks creating their version of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as part of the Shakespeare in Schools Festival. Pupils were thrilled to have the opportunity to demonstrate the culmination of all their hard work when they stepped on to the stage at the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter to perform in front of an audience of approximately 500 people.
Chulmleigh College, working in partnership with Devon Music Education Hub, recently hosted the second ever Future Musicians Day. The day has been designed to allow as many pupils as possible across all ages from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4 to join together in a collaborative music making session.
On Monday 27 January, Miss Oldham and Mrs Payne took 14 pupils from Chulmleigh College to represent our school community at this year’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, it commemorated 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. We started the day at the beautiful Exeter Cathedral with a welcome from the Dean and speeches from pupils in Devon. We also heard from Chaz Singh who told us about the Sikh Princess who helped Jewish families to escape Nazi Germany. After a short walk, we went to the Southernhay United Reformed Church where we heard a fascinating talk from Stewart Raine who told the story of his friend called Otto Deutsch who was a Kindertransport Child. We all listened in awe of his experience being evacuated from Vienna in Austria. After a quick lunch in the church, we had time to revisit the Cathedral before going to the Jewish Synagogue. There we heard from the Rabbi who talked us through some of the key features of the synagogue and pupils had the chance to go up and see the Torah.
We were delighted to welcome back pupils from our Year 11 2023/24 on Thursday 16th January to receive their GCSE certificates and awards.
The Class of 2024 were a record breaking cohort for Chulmleigh College – their hard work and success making them the highest achieving cohort on the south west peninsular, topping Devon secondary schools in all measures.
Our thanks to the Reverend Janet May for acting as our Guest Speaker on the night.
We remember this year group with huge fondness and wish them well for the future.
We recently welcomed BBC Spotlight to Chulmleigh College to interview pupils benefiting from the mentoring scheme. This scheme is a partnership between the College and members of St Mary Magdalene Church in Chulmleigh, providing week-by-week support to pupils. Pupils were interviewed about what the scheme means to them and the positive impact it is having upon their day to day lives, helping them to build both confidence and resilience.
The report can be viewed here: https://tinyurl.com/mur4vv85
The Department for Education has made the results of all schools in England available via this website:
All schools and colleges in Devon - Compare school and college performance data in England - GOV.UK
As the 2024 GCSE Results are published nationally today, Chulmleigh College once again celebrates significant examination success. As part of a small Trust of local schools, Chulmleigh College has always been proud of its warm, welcoming and family feel, this is characterised by 71 of the 752 pupils attending the College having parents who work in Chulmleigh Academy Trust. The family feel is a big part of the success of the school as pupils join the Primary Schools at Nursery and remain with the Trust until the end of their GCSEs in Year 11. The journey of families through Chulmleigh Academy Trust schools and relationships with the staff is a source of pride for everyone at the Trust. Staff, pupils and their families form a long and strong relationship over their time together.
On Monday 11th November 2024, Chulmleigh College came together to mark Remembrance Day. Staff and pupils assembled outside to observe a two minute silence, as we always do.
This year is particularly poignant as The Trust has recently been asked to be custodian of George Joce’s First World War medal. Scores of men were killed during that war, from this area. George was a dairyman and was part of a well known family from Chulmleigh. His death is poignant particularly because he lost his life on 11th November 1918.
The First World War ended 106 years ago, but it and other wars are still relevant today.
Thank you to Harry Lewis and Mr Miners for playing the last post so beautifully, and to Head Boy, Harrison Jordan, and Head Girl, Francesca Trimming, for reading the poem 'Last Post' by Carol Ann Duffy, so eloquently. We thought this poem was particularly appropriate this year. It was written to remember the generation of men who fought in World War 1 because even the survivors of the war are gone.
On Friday 4th October the whole school came together to attend our Harvest Festival, held in Mary Magdalen Church, Chulmleigh. Pupils from our local farming community spoke eloquently about their valuable contribution to the harvest in this area, and pupils made donations to our local foodbank. This service provides an opportune moment for our school to celebrate our local farming community, and time to reflect and be thankful for the contribution our community makes to food production in this area.
On Friday 11th October 2024, 36 Year 8 pupils took part in the IET Faraday® Challenge 2024 – 2025 which was delivered by Cognition Learning on behalf of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
The Challenge Day provides six teams of six students, aged 12 to 13 years, with the opportunity to research, design and make prototype solutions to real-world engineering problems. This season’s theme partners are the UKRI’s Faraday® Battery Challenge.
The IET Faraday® Challenge is an annual competition of STEM activity days, which are designed to be cross curricular and cover hands on activities spanning science, technology, engineering and maths. The competition sees teams across the country competing, where the top teams at the end of the season are invited to the National Final to battle it out to be crowned the IET Faraday® National Champion and will win a cash prize of up to £1000 for their school to spend on STEM activities.
Congratulations to the winners of the first round of the IET Faraday® Challenge 2024 – 2025: Chloe Bannister, Maggie Hawkins, Chloe Cooke, Leila Hooper, Jessica Madden, Dee Friggens
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We would like to congratulate Year 11 on their outstanding set of GCSE results! Your hard work, commitment, and determination have paid off. We wish you well with your future goals. Well done!
