NEWS

Screen 1 at Orion Cinema in the heart of Dereham is usually filled with regular cinema-goers. Last month, however, it welcomed a different audience, as DSFC students, staff, family and friends arrived dressed to impress for the DSFC Film Awards 2025. As part of...

Students at our college have spent the term exploring some of the most talked-about new fiction, thanks to a special reading opportunity led by Librarian Rachel Chávez. The project invited students to sample titles shortlisted for two major literary awards: the...

Our 'Twelve Days of Christmas Term' display is now up in the Library. Each book unveils the next line of the song and the first letter of each title spells out a festive event. Check out the full list of books and each line of the song below. The books: The song...

It's been 2 weeks since our Open Evening - we loved welcoming so many prospective students and parents and hearing so many positive comments. If you were unable to attend, take a look at our highlights below. If you have any questions, or would like to arrange a...

"We would like to congratulate our students on the excellent examination results they have achieved this year. We are extremely proud of them. These results have been achieved through hard work, perseverance and true determination. We wish all our students every...

For our final afternoon of term, the College Senate has organised a Sports Day. We have had badminton, a sack race, 100m sprint, an egg and spoon race, a wheelbarrow race, a three-legged race, Mario Kart, Just Dance and hallway bowls, as well as a smoothie bike!...

Recently our A-Level Geographers undertook their fieldwork week. Here's what they got up to: Day 1: NorwichA day in Norwich allowed the students to conduct microclimate fieldwork in a city centre looking at temperature, wind and humidity at set times in different...

A visit to Houghton Hall's major art exhibition has now become a staple on the calendar for our Art and Design department and provides a vital opportunity to enrich the delivery of the art curriculum. This year, students had the opportunity to view the work of...

On Wednesday 18th June we took a group of Year 12 students, and some pupils from Northgate High School, to the Allied Health Professions Careers Taster Day. This was held by the University of East Anglia and hosted at the Edith Cavell Centre, adjacent to the...

Our Year 12 Criminology students have been learning about different techniques for obtaining crime scene prints this week. In the lesson we attended they learnt about three types of prints - patent, latent and plastic - and then put their crime scene investigator...

World Book Night is celebrated annually on the 23rd April. It is designed to 'bring people from all backgrounds together for one reason - to inspire others to read more.' (The Reading Agency, 2025) Each year, the Library devises a range of activities to help...

To help celebrate British Science Week, our Year 12 science students and students from Northgate High School recently had the opportunity to hear from John Gordon-Reid, Co-Director of What on Earth! Publishers. John ran a very interactive session which included the...

Last week, Year 12 Health and Social Care students attended a dissection of a pig heart and lungs with Biology teacher Mr Ashfied. Their unit on Anatomy and physiology for health and social care requires them to understand the structure of the heart and respiratory...

At Dereham Sixth Form College, students get to choose between four pathways of the WJEC Eduqas A Level in Art and Design course: Art, Craft and Design; Fine Art; Graphic Communication; or Photography. Isabelle, in Year 13, opted for the Fine Art pathway and she has...

X-Men, TikTok, game theory, doping in athletics, Brexit, animal migration, dialysis, collective trauma and mychorrhizal fungi. What do these things have in common? They have all been researched in last year’s cohort of EPQ students (find out more about the EPQ...

The envelopes were ready, the awards printed and the cups polished. Last week we held our annual Presentation Evening, celebrating the achievements of our previous years' Leavers. After a welcome by College Director Mr Atkin, the Evening was handed over to Miss...

Christmas is a classic time for celebrities to release their autobiographies. Inspired by this, our Librarian, Rachel Chavez, runs an annual Christmas Competition where students and staff are asked whose life story they would like to find underneath their Christmas...

Last month, we took 28 Year 13 students to Barcelona. Leaving London Stansted at 4.55pm we arrived in the Spanish city at 7.25pm on Friday 1st November. That evening we spent some time getting to know Barcelona's old quarter. Over the next four days we got to...

Screen 1 at Orion Cinema in the centre of Dereham is normally packed with the usual cinema-goers. However, last Wednesday evening, it was filled with DSFC students, staff, family and friends dressed to impress for our DSFC Film Awards! Our A Level Media students...

We enjoyed meeting all of our visitors last night during our Open Evening. Thank you for all your positive comments.Here, you can view some highlights from the Evening.If you have any questions, or were unable to attend yesterday, please get in touch with us: 01362...

At the start of the month, we took three coachloads of Year 12 off to Cambridge for the day. In groups we toured the campuses of Gonville and Caius College (University of Cambridge) and Anglia Ruskin University. Students also had the opportunity to explore the city...

"We would like to congratulate our students on the excellent examination results they have achieved this year. We are extremely proud of them. These results have been achieved through hard work, perseverance and true determination. We wish all our students every...

Yesterday, a group of Year 12 students attended the Allied Health Professionals Taster Day at Norwich Research Park run by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), organised in conjunction with the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Norfolk Higher...

Two of our students, Emma and Liliana, recently had an amazing opportunity to dance on the famous Sadler's Wells stage in London. Emma explains more: "We took part in a competition run by Sadler's Wells called Making Moves. Our dance team, Obsidian, applied to...

Our Year 12 Art and Design students were recently taken to Norwich University of the Arts' Grad Fest 2024 by Miss Gardner. It was an opportunity to see an amazing variety of work including: animation / animation and visual effects creative computing design for...

On Monday 10th June, all of Year 12 attended the UCAS Discovery Fair held at the Norfolk Showground. UCAS Discovery Fairs take place around the country and allow students the opportunity to: chat to unis and colleges about their courses and uni life speak to...

A small group of our students have been invited to participate in a research project on Artificial Intelligence in Education with academics from the University of East Anglia. This will involve four workshops, the first two of which took place at the UEA on the 6th...