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BS Poetry Prize Winners2 Ned R, Jasper J, Hazel M and Anouska GM, all Year 9, took part in the Schools Poetry Slam event at the Budleigh Literary Festival last week, putting together a piece of performance poetry in workshops over the course of the day before performing it in...

Sixth Form Welcome Evening Welcome to Sixth Form Evening for parents of current Year 12 students: Thursday 26 September 2019, 6-7pm, Cottrill Hall. Colyton Grammar School We would like to invite you along to our ‘Welcome to The Sixth Form Evening’ on 26 September 2019. The purpose of the evening will...

VEXRobotics Outreach A very successful and productive Vex Outreach day took place on Tuesday 17 September for a number of primary school children across the region. The youngsters loved working with the robots and looked very at home using the state-of-the-art equipment. Thank you to @VEXRoboticsUK and Mr Cronk for...

Report by Cerys M, Year 9 After an amazing year of training, in the RS Feva dinghy with Sophie, (my sailing partner) we travelled all the way over to Follonica, Italy, to compete in the World Championships. Many weekends and evenings spent racing with our regional squad, our local training and...

Report by Sammy P At futures cup 2019, we started off by playing Mercia Lynx. We had a brilliant start to the tournament with a comfortable 4-0 win with even me bagging a goal for the first time in over a year. In our second game we had a much tougher...

The start of the school year sees the launch of two new reading lists for Colyton Grammar School students. 50 Unforgettable Reads is aimed at Years 9 to 13. During the Summer Term staff and students were asked to recommend the most inspiring and enjoyable books they had read. All fifty...

A quarter of the year group achieve 8 or more grade 9s85% achieved the top three grades of 9 to 7 – four times the national average. Business Studies – Colyton students are top two in the country out of 48,685 candidates. Six subjects where 90% or more students achieved grades 9...

• 66% of students have achieved A and A* grades, against the national average of 25.5% • Overall, 87.1% achieved grades from A* to B • An improvement on last year’s results, bucking the national trend • 9 students hold offers for Oxbridge • 5 students have places for medical and veterinary schools Students from...

Eric W Eric W, Year 12, was one of the four man team from Colyton that made it into the ICAEW Base finals (along with 47 other teams) in Birmingham. While the team didn’t win an award, Eric was presented with the Leadership award. The letter confirming his prize (which is...

The Ultimate STEM Challenge is a national competition encouraging students from across the country to redesign something to make people’s lives better. The final was held at the Science Museum in London in May. Of over 250 different group entries, each with their own ideas, 11 teams were selected to...