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Maelo speaks at conference in Canada

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Recently, year eight St Dunstan's student, Maelo Manning, was named as a future Prime Minster by the Observer and a top political blogger by babble.com.

Now, Maelo has been beckoned overseas to share her opinions with the Canadian audience. On Thursday 20 October 2011, Maelo speaks at the 'Mothering and Education' conference hosted by the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (link below). Maelo will be speaking about how children benefit from having their mothers involved in their education.

Well done Maelo!

http://www.motherhoodinitiative.org/conferences.html

12 students and two teachers to help build a classroom in Sinai School, Babati, Tanzania

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Between the 14th-29th October, 12 students and two teachers will be at the Sinai School, Babati as volunteers with Inspire Worldwide team leaders to spend their half term holiday helping to build a classroom.

They have raised their own funds to pay for the trip, and have been busy raising money to put toward the £9,000 costs of the project. This week the total raised has reached £6,330, a fantastic effort by all of the team and the College community.

If you would like to make a donation, you can do so by following the link below:

http://www.bmycharity.com/StDunstansTanzania2011

For more information about the charity that we are working with please follow the link below:

http://www.livingstonetanzaniatrust.com/

On their return, the students will continue to raise funds and will give a number of presentations to the student body about their trip.

Tanzania Project 2011

St Dunstan’s students and teacher John Holroyd discuss ethical issues on Resonance FM

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

St Dunstan’s year 13 students David Harris, Amy Provan, Leila Morris, Nicole Martins, and Laurence Jarlett meet Assistant Editor of Philosophy Now, Grant Bartley to debate topical issues including the UK riots and the Dale Farm travellers. The discussion was broadcast on Resonance FM on 4 October 2011, to listen to the podcast, please follow the link below.

http://www.philosophynow.org/podcasts/The_School_of_Ethics

Latest news round up

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

St. Dunstan’s year 8 student named as a future prime minister and top UK political blogger.

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

St. Dunstan’s year 8 student, Maelo Manning, has been identified by the Observer as being one of ‘Westminster's future stars’. Click here to read more.

To see Maelo listed as one of the UKs 10 most influential young bloggers, click here.