Our students have recently been putting theory into practice again, this time learning about the CSI role of the forensic entomologist. Year 12 Criminology students took part in a supervised forensic science experiment in taphonomy. This experience has allowed the...

Today we welcomed several guest speakers for our annual Health & Wellbeing Day. With talks going on all day, this always proves to be very insightful day for our students on a number of issues affecting young people. The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation - a drug...

Last month we held the private viewing of our annual A Level Art & Design Exhibition. It was an evening which celebrated the incredible creativity, imagination and talent of our Year 13 students. But it isn't just us who think that! Whilst we are unable to...

Classroom learning met the real world last week as our Year 12 Geographers took part in our annual Fieldwork Week.   Their journey took them from the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf to the beaches of Holkham and Sheringham, where they investigated how places change...

We held another successful Transition Day for our Year 11 applicants last week. We were delighted to welcome more than 140 of our applicants for a taste of life at DSFC. They took part in taster lessons in their chosen subjects, learned about our Skills Lab...

Our Year 12 Art & Design students recently visited Houghton Hall to experience a major exhibition of sculpture by the celebrated post-war British artist Lynn Chadwick CBE (1914-2003). The visit brought together students from Photography, Fine Art, Graphic...

What does it take to uncover crucial evidence at a crime scene? Our Year 12 Criminology students recently found out during an interactive workshop on crime scene print analysis, organised by Criminology teacher Mrs Elphick. The workshop served as a hands-on...

World Book Night is celebrated annually on 23rd April. It 'brings people from all backgrounds together for one reason - to inspire others to read more.' (The Reading Agency, 2026). Each year, the Library devises a range of activities to help inspire reading for...

Dereham Sixth Form College and Northgate High School were recently invited by Orchard Surgery in Dereham to design a new logo for the practice. Students from both the school and college took part, submitting a wide range of creative and high-quality designs: The...

Pride and celebration were at the heart of our annual Presentation Evening last week as our 2025 leavers and their families joined staff and guests to recognise hard work and achievement. The event highlighted the dedication, talent and progress of learners across...

From cold case citizen investigators to the ethics of modern zoos, prison overcrowding, polygraph testing, and meditation — our EPQ students tackled some truly thought-provoking topics. Begun last December and submitted at the start of Year 13, this year's group of...

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...

"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...