THE FORDER PROGRAMME As a community, we can be remarkably proud of the way our staff, students and wider College community responded to the challenges presented by the pandemic. For so many, the need to focus on curriculum adjustment had to become the sole focus, but not at St Dunstan’s. The co-curriculum would remain a priority for all! Whether in school and having to adapt to restrictions, or remote and delivering a Virtual Forder Programme, our community has been able to demonstrate the values that are central to the College and cocurriculum in order to sustain a broad, diverse and ambitious offering. Reverend Forder himself would have been proud! The year started with a change in expectation for students in Year 7–11, which saw them sign up for co-curricular clubs throughout the week during the timetabled lesson that we are fortunate to retain in the middle of the day – a real statement of intent from our College community. In order to support this increase in demand the staff were able to offer between 40 and 50 clubs each day for students across the year groups to enjoy. Restrictions on numbers in clubs and year group bubbles meant that many of our most popular multi-year group clubs had to demonstrate great creativity in order to make the necessary adjustments. Drama and Adventurous Activity became single year group clubs and were offered across the whole week. We retained Saturday sport relying on internal competitions to give students something to prepare for; CCF parade
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