All visitors and parents are now required to wear a face-covering when entering the school. Thank you for your support. 

Children in need and Remembrance day letter...

From Monday 2nd November the school day will change...

There will be NO period 6 for year 11 on the 12/10/2020 due to staff training. 

Letter for parents about COVID-19 symptoms Public Health England has produced a letter for scho

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/dene-magna to browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school

We are delighted to inform you that there are a number of activities taking place for our Year 7 students to celebrate European Day of Languages:       When Activity Where

Please be aware of a video circulating on Tik Tok and other platforms....

Due to the current pandemic, we will be using email and text messages more and more, please can you ensure that your mobile number and email address are up to date.  Please find attached an Emergency Contact Sheet should you need to change your

  Please see below for the Year 11 period 6 timetable. This timetable will start on Monday the 7th of September. 

Hi all,   We have been discussing PE and how we organise things.   Please ensure that students know that during the days that they have PE, they MUST come in wearing their PE kit. We have no use of the changing rooms so it

Please click the link below to access the school food menu for the week starting on the 7th of September. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the school.  

Please click below to access the COVID-19 school transport guidance from Grindles.  Below is some extra information about the guidance on school transport. If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the school. Bus

Pay system closure...

Once again, we are delighted with this year’s outcomes at Dene Magna School. It has been an incredibly tough year...

A quick message from Mr Brady, regarding the collection of GCSE exam results

Just a reminder that, even though it will be the holidays, students will still be able to use our online reading sources. Wheelers eBook and Audiobook platform will still be accessible via Student Quicklinks, as will myON, the new Renaissance di

Please click the link below for the end of year letter...

Dear parent/carer,   Well, it looks like we have reached the final week of the school year and rather than make this a long update, I will be sending out a more detailed end of year letter to you during next week.   It has

Please click the document below to read a letter concerning Pupil Premium, FSM and Financial Hardship...

Hi all, Just to let you know, reports are currently being collated for all year groups with the exception of yr11 and will be posted home towards the end of the week.  Thank you. 

Access the document below for information on Pastoral week. 

Dear parents/carers, Sometimes, in the apparent maelstrom of current events, we may forget that the normality of life is still going on. This was brought home to us this week as Mr Brady has been struggling through the week after putting his back

Dear parents/carers,   I will start by checking in once again to see how you are doing. Although lockdown is easing, I do know that it remains an incredibly difficult time for some. Please remember to get in touch if you need anything from

Dear parents/carers   These updates seem to be coming around more quickly than before and yet it is now the 12th week since lockdown began!   If anything, this tough time has shown us how strong we are as a community and that wh

Dear parent/carer Where has the time gone?  I hope you all managed to have a restful half term and that you are all staying safe and well. It remains a busy time at Dene Magna and I have a few updates for you. Firstly, I am delighted to

GLOUCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE - ONLINE OPEN EVENT: 1-5 JUNE   Meet our teaching team  Explore the wide range of courses on offer   Understand what you could learn  Ask questions about the course and the College   Disc

 Dear Parent/Carer   You will be fed up from hearing from me this week, so I will keep things brief today.   Hopefully, the letter I sent out yesterday gives some clarity on the plans we have in place for after half term?&n

 Accelerated Reader and Wheelers ePlatform Wheelers have just informed us that the AR program has now been integrated with our ePlatform digital library (access via Student Quicklinks, eBooks & Audiobooks). This means that stude

 HAY FESTIVAL is digital this year, 18 - 31 May, and FREE to view! This gives us easy access to many amazing author events which are available to view anytime after 8 am on the day they are scheduled. While the events are free to view, you can &

 Accelerated Reader Update 12 May 2020   Well done to Jenner readers! 7J1 and 8J2 were the top tutor groups for passing quizzes since 27 April.  Jenner is no longer bottom of the chart! Dowty is still well in the lead, fo

 I really hope that you are safe and well during this Challenging time.   Now more than ever The Children's Centre at Gloucester Royal Hospital along with NHS Staff and Key Worker's need our support.    At The

 Our school needs you! Help us win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for the school library - and get £100 for yourself! Just enter the competition online, it only takes a minute - Just click here.

  This is a 3-day virtual festival from 8 - 10 May that brings together the best of the cancelled UK literary festivals, broadcast as-live at https://bigbookweekend.com/  It is produced by MyVLF (online book festival site) and

 The Library has a Google Classroom! Within it you will find threads with information about events online, links to authors, reading suggestions, chat about what we've been reading to escape from Lockdown, almost anything relating to the enj

Dear parent/carer   I hope you have managed to have a nice week and that most importantly, you and your loved ones are managing to stay safe.   As you know, the school continues to be open for children of key workers and some of

All FSM orders went through last week. Some have now received their vouchers and Mr Bishop is chasing up all of those that have yet to arrive.  Stay safe everyone. 

 Afternoon everyone,   I know I say this all the time, but I hope that everyone is safe and well. The return of some sunshine has really helped and most of you are probably now into something of a routine.    Less

Gloucestershire County Libraries have updated their online services and now all running well. If you would like to use their eBook, eMagazine and Audiobook online services, which are all FREE to use, and you haven't already joined Gloucestersh

Please remember if students have read their library books they can do Accelerated Reader quizzes AND briefly rate and review books on Library catalogue Oliver, both accessible through Student Quicklinks. Also through Quicklinks, students can acces

Message for parents of children in receipt of Free School Meal As you may be aware, the voucher scheme for Free School Means has been in the news and has been overwhelmed in terms of orders. We have signed up to the scheme, but like many schools,

A great big thank you to Mr. May for all the hard work that's going into creating plastic shields to help protect our local NHS heroes. 👏 Also, we'd like to thank Mr. Sherwood for all his help on Tuesday and GCHQ for giving a fi

 A number of Y11 students have asked about the Prom and their outfits. Rest assured that as per Mr Brady's assembly, the plan will be to make good use of these once we are back to normal and we will be having a celebration to mark the end of

  Hi everyone,   I will start by hoping that everyone is staying well. We continue to be in awe of the response to this crisis and I once again thank those front line workers on behalf of everyone in the Dene Magna community for th

Dear all, Firstly, I hope that are managing to cope in these very difficult times. It certainly seems to be difficult to get some of the most basic things in for the house and with this, in mind, we have decided to make a second food parcel availa

Dear all,   Well, that has been a week hasn't it!  Thank you so much for your continued efforts in trying to keep some sort of normality to life. It's really tough isn't it, and I must remind everyone that if you are strug

Community help hub launched to support residents Gloucestershire’s councils and partners have created a community help hub to connect local people who need help, with others who

Thank you so much for your ongoing support of how we are trying to keep lessons going during this difficult time.  After a while, this new 'normal' will feel a bit more comfortable. Of course, there may be issues along the way (usually w

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