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Dene Magna Community School is a secondary foundation school in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, previously known as Abenhall Comprehensive School. The school is mixed, and currently has 735 pupils aged between 11 and 16. The most recent set of GCSE results returned 84% of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades, the best in the school's history. In 2005, the school was awarded a place on Ofsted's "Honours List", a list of 234 particularly high-achieving and successful schools.[1] The headmaster is Rob Broadbridge.[2] A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ...
Mitcheldean is a small town in the east of the Forest of Dean, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. ...
Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ...
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In England and Wales, a foundation school is a type of school which enjoys a degree of independence from the local education authority. ...
Mitcheldean is a small town in the east of the Forest of Dean, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. ...
Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in South West England. ...
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Health and environmental campaigns In 2000 the school was awarded a certicate by the United Nations for its contribution to environmental education, when a seven month campaign to educate students and reduce the school's aggregate waste resulted in a 59% reduction in the volume of rubbish produced.[3] In addition to that, the school's kitchen and management staff recently approved an initiative to change the menus for the food offered by the school to make the students' diets healthier, responding to the area's status as being the area with the highest incidence of heart disease in the country.[4] The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ...
Notable alumni David Elliott Drew (born 13 April 1952) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and Labour and Co-operative member of Parliament for Stroud. ...
References - ^ Government News Network OFSTED launches 'Honours List' of England's most successful schools and colleges.
- ^ School profile from DirectGov
- ^ 'How Dene Magna turned greener'. BBC news online, 30 December 2003
- ^ 'Goodbye Mr Chip'. TeacherNet case study
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