Awards and Initiatives
Dorothy Stringer gained the Green Flag award for environmental awareness and activism in 1998. It remains the only secondary school in Brighton to hold this award. In the late 1990s, environmental changes at the school were focussed on recycling, energy and improving the look of the school, such as with flower beds. Over the period 2000-2005, environmentalism at Dorothy Stringer increased dramatically, becoming the Dorothy Stringer Environmental Partnership and encompassing more areas of the environment. Attention turned to the biodiversity of the woodland that surrounds the school, and in 2004, a dilapidated classroom building set amongst this woodland was renovated as part of the PFI scheme. From this base, Dorothy Stringer has become the lead environmental school in Brighton and Hove, forming international links with St Joseph's School in Le Havre for which funding from the Franco-British Council was won, forming local links with neighbouring schools and, within the school, involving a large number of students in educational environmental activities.
Dorothy Stringer became a specialist sports school in 2002 and sport is an important feature of Dorothy Stringer. Pupils receive two hours of sport education a week, in line with government guideline . Becoming a sports school has entailed the demolition of the sports hall and the construction of a new venue twice the size, with an additional dance studio, gym and changing rooms. As part of the school's responsibilities as a sports school, Dorothy Stringer undertakes work to promote sport in local primary schools, which is chielfy done through the JSLA and a new scheme which involves establishing and nurturing dance clubs at Brighton primary schools and organising a mass performance at the Brighton Dome.
Dorothy Stringer is also a part of the Healthy School initiative, a Partnership Promotion School, a Training School, a recipient of money from the Big Lottery Fund for the school newsletter, and benefits from the European Union's III A programme.
Dorothy Stringer has long owned an outdoor pursuits centre near Bangor, north-west Wales. This facilities allows the school to organise many trips for its pupils and lease the building for the use of other organisations and individuals.
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