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DCC Armistice Day 2019

To commemorate Armistice Day, we once again invite any of our students who are members of Military Cadets, Uniformed Services or Scout organisations to wear their associated uniforms as the college falls silent in remembrance.

Mr Ridgley performs The Last Post

To celebrate 20 years of supporting school breakfast clubs, Kellogg’s has awarded the college £1,000 to enhance the club and help feed our young people in the morning.

The college was selected to receive this boost as Kellogg’s announce they are to double their investment in breakfast clubs in 2019 as more and more schools struggle to find the budget to fund this service for their pupils.

Breakfast clubs help with everything from attendance and attainment to alleviating hunger and providing pre-school care. 68 per cent of teachers believe pupils would struggle to concentrate in class without their breakfast club, according to Kellogg’s research.

Mrs Duffy ( Head of Community) said: “We are so grateful to receive this generous donation. We have since been able to purchase equipment, cereal, milk for our club.

These resources will help us to provide our breakfast club services for our young people and help  their families thanks to the support from Kellogg’s.”

Kate Prince, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, at Kellogg’s, said “We’re proud to have spent 20 years supporting so many schools across the UK. We believe all children should have the opportunity to start the day with breakfast, and we know that equipment and resources are just as important to clubs as the food itself.”

Kellogg’s has supported 3,000 school breakfast clubs with funds, food and training over the last 20 years – that’s 70 million bowls of cereal to children all over the UK since 1998.

Denton Students have been taking part in a community Garden Project to make the local area more appealing and improve well being.

The Community Garden project was set up to create a network of partners across Droylsden, Audenshaw and Denton. Partners consist of GP practices, community groups, St Martins Church, Integrated Neighbourhood Manager Jeanette Leach, local volunteers and Action Together Community Wellbeing officer. The project will run between October 2019 and March 2020.

Greenscape run monthly sessions to upskill volunteers and to put together a bespoke project brief for each location. Each partner takes ownership of insuring volunteers and engaging in sessions.  The GP practice manager will work with the health champions and GP’s will refer patients into the project. Action Together social prescriber will also refer clients into the project as this has been identified as a gap and people have been identified already as to who would be perfect for the project.

Project Outcomes:

• To improve the greenspace areas across the community.
• To improve wellbeing.
• Reduce social isolation and loneliness.
• Create mutually beneficial networks of support and resilience.
• To improve partnerships & collaboration across localities.
• Support people with low mood, low self-esteem/loss of confidence.
• Support place-based working that improves lives in local communities.

Denton Community College works closely with GMP in order to help make our community a safe and happy place to be. GMP will be publishing a new edition of their newsletter each quarter.

They will also be introducing themselves to students and staff in assemblies over the coming weeks, and attend events such as Parents Evening to speak to families about their roles in the local community and how they work with schools.

Please click the link to the newsletter to find out more: School Laison Newsletter 1st (1)

You will also be able to find this Newsletter and future updates under the Community section under Community News..