On 15th January, Dartmouth Academy hosted the Primary Indoor Athletics Festival. Children from Dartmouth Academy, Stoke Fleming, Kingswear and St John's Primary schools participated in both track and field events including chest push, long jump, vertical jump, speed bounce, javelin, relays and parlaauf, with 12 students from each school competing. All events were organised and officiated by the Academy's Sports Leaders and their competence was well recognised by parents and s

On 15th January Dartmouth Academy hosted Ivybridge Community College for the Year 8/9 Table Tennis area final. This involved 4 students from each school competing individually against their respective seeded opponents, best of 3 games. Ralph Ryder eased past his opponent 2-0, showing off a variation of shots and controlling the service well. Ollie Smith played as the number 1 seed and came up against a tough opponent; losing out 2-1 despite playing some fantastic winning shot

It is important to us that your questions are answered quickly and effectively and for this to happen you need to know who to contact about your issues. We have had some changes in the past few weeks, following on from the departure of Rik Meek, the key people to contact are listed below, but if your issue is not listed, the staff on Reception will be able to put you through to the relevant person. For most issues the Form Tutor is the first port of call, or the Class Teacher

Due to popular request, we are reinstating the 'Artist of the Week'. This week, we have a piece from Year 10 Art & Design student, Nicole Petrova. This piece from Nicole's A&D sketch book is based on the work of French artist André Derain. Derain's original piece, on the left of the picture, was extended out to the right by Nicole after researching Derain's work and techniques.

The book Friend or Foe was based on two boys during the war. They are from London and they are evacuated into the countryside. The boys catch sight of a plane crashing in the moors and go to investigate when Davey falls into the stream but who saves him? I enjoyed the suspense in this book, when I reached the end I felt it was only the beginning and I wanted more. I would recommend this book to 11 to 13 year olds of any gender. Review by Annalise,Year 8

Alf’s are inviting all school children to come and join us for FREE PORRIDGE OR PANCAKES every morning this week to give them a winter warming, energy boosting start to their day before they head off to school. Don’t forget we’ll also be having a free 'Sausage Sizzle' with Charles Baughan, Director of Westaways Sausages on Wednesday 28th January, 7am-9am. Come along and try his fabulous range of local sausages and hog's pudding.

At the end of last term we said goodbye to three teachers: Mrs Berry (Class 3/4GB), Mr S Payne (Maths) and Ms Yoxall (Design & Technology). I would like to place on record, here, my thanks for the contributions they have made to the Academy during their time with us; they will be missed. In Year 3/4 we have Mrs Bakewell now sharing the class with Miss Griffin. Mrs Bakewell is well known to the Academy and many of our parents and we are confident that she will be able to ens

Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Maths, a Modern foreign Language, Chemistry, Maths or English? Have you ever thought about training to be a teacher? Would you like to train in the South West? If the answer to these questions is “yes”, then we might be able to help. Please visit www.dartmouthacademy.org.uk and follow the links for School Direct. If you would like to discuss the courses we offer, please call Simon Underdown at Ivybridge Community College on 01752 69

Having a post-Christmas clear out? If you have any unwanted children's books that your little ones have grown out of, we'd love to have them for our Academy Library. Please bring any donations to the Academy Main Reception or the Helpdesk. Thank you. #news

This book is about a girl who didn’t want her dad to sell their boat ‘Moana’ because her mum and her dad made it before her mum went missing. When Kara first met Felix they didn’t get on but when it came to saving the white dolphin they worked together. I loved this book but it was hard to start it but when you carried on reading it was hard to stop. I finished this book when I was with my dad in the tractor! I really recommend this book for other people! Review by Eryn, Ye