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  • 13 Jul
  • 2015

Good Schools Guide Award

Platanos College has today been awarded the Good Schools Guide Award 2015. The award is in recognition of the school's... Read More

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  • 2 Jul
  • 2015

Minute’s silence to pay our respects

The entire school, as with the rest of the UK, held a minute's silence at midday to remember those who... Read More

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  • 26 Jun
  • 2015

Our Junior NBA Basketball champions in BBC filming

Our Platanos basketball players, including members of the team who won the Junior England NBA Basketball league earlier this year,... Read More

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  • 15 Jun
  • 2015

Air gliding trip at Lasham Airfield

Platanos pupils had the exciting opportunity to attend a trip to Lasham Airfield where they learnt about engineering and aviation... Read More

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  • 2 Jun
  • 2015

RISE fund-raising challenge

We are proud to announce our pupils taking part in the RISE (Rural India School Enterprise) Challenge has raised a... Read More

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  • 22 May
  • 2015

BBC Story Writing Competition

One of our pupils, Joanna Byrne (Year 7), entered the BBC Radio 2 Story Writing 2015 Competition earlier this term... Read More

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  • 18 May
  • 2015

IntoUniversity ‘Business in Focus’ programme

As part of the school’s IntoUniversity partnership programme, our Year 10 pupils attended a ‘Business in Focus’ day, centred on an... Read More

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  • 4 May
  • 2015

Mock General Election

With the UK General Election fast approaching and the heightened interest and debating taking place, Platanos College hosted a mock... Read More

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  • 24 Apr
  • 2015

RISE fund-raising challenge

Our pupils are taking part in the RISE (Rural India School Enterprise) Challenge once again this year. After the first... Read More

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  • 23 Mar
  • 2015

Platanos College one of the best in the country for pupil progress at GCSE

Platanos College has just received national recognition for the value it adds to pupils' achievement at GCSE by the independent... Read More