The 'DEC!' (Design, Engineer, Construct!) department, at Les Quennevais School in Jersey, Channel Islands. Educating young learners about the built environment!

Joined September 2021
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28 Jan 2025
A huge thank you to Matthew & Marc from Rok Construction for giving our Year 10 @DECinSchools students an incredible site tour around the new Jersey water HQ. It really brought learning to life as our students were able to see in action what they learn in their DEC lessons!
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25 Oct 2024
A great evening at the Our Stars Awards. Thank you for the lovely nomination @d_roworth. A huge congratulations to all the winners ✨
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23 Oct 2024
Thank you so much ☺️
This is an outstanding endorsement of an exceptional teacher. I am so proud of you Katie and your students are incredibly lucky to be taught by you. Huge congratulations 👏👏👏
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18 Oct 2024
Thank you to Ginny Duffell from Duffell Planning, for coming into talk to our Year 10 @DECinSchools students about the process of gaining planning permission & the planning protocols & legislations that should be considered. An informative & interesting session! @LesQuennevaisSc
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11 Sep 2024
I am so honoured to have won DEC (Design, Engineer, Construct) teacher of the year 2024! It is such a privelage to teach DEC, the experiences and opportunities the course provides for our students are incredible. Thank you @ClassofYourOwn @DECinSchools 🤩🥳 @LesQuennevaisSc
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4 Sep 2024
Very honoured to have been nominated for the DEC teacher of the year award by @ClassofYourOwn @DECinSchools 🤩 I love teaching DEC and will be forever grateful for the paths it has opened for my students 😊
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12 Jun 2024
A huge well done to our @LesQuennevaisSc @Leadersaward engineering competition winners! Also a huge well done to Erin, who had her design from last year chosen to be made as a prototype! Such a fantastic evening. Thank you @primaryengineer & @skills_jersey
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Well done to Emilie from @GrainvilleSch winner of the @DECinSchools Jersey Skills Show competition. Emilie aims to one day become an Architect and is determined to follow her dream career in the Built Environment . @ClassofYourOwn @DTSifo @HautlieuSchool @LesQuennevaisSc
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This really matters. It is at the heart of everything we do @LesQuennevaisSc and to have our inclusive culture formally recognised and celebrated as a centre of excellence is so important. So very proud of our amazing staff and our students who embrace this everyday @GovJersey
Huge honour to become the first secondary school in Jersey to receive centre of excellence status for inclusion & our inclusive practice.We have a very long,very proud &very rewarding history of an inclusive culture at our school. ⁦@GovJersey⁩ ⁦@GovJsyCYPES
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2 May 2024
A huge well done to our wonderful Year 10 DEC students who ran the DEC stall at the Jersey Skills Show today! They are great ambassadors of the subject and we are so proud of them all! @LesQuennevaisSc @DECinSchools @skills_jersey
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29 Apr 2024
Thank you to Ashbe Construction for inviting our year 10 DEC classes for tours around the Jersey Opera House construction site, to see the restoration works taking place. It was a fantastic experience & covered a range of course content in a real life setting! @LesQuennevaisSc
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26 Apr 2024
So proud of our amazing Year 11 @DECinSchools students that were nominated and shortlisted as ‘Students of the year’ at the 6th annual @DigitalJersey Tech Awards! Such talented young people! A huge congratulations to you all. @LesQuennevaisSc
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7 Mar 2024
Couldn’t be prouder of our incredible year 11 @LesQuennevaisSc DEC students, achieving 100% A*-C in their DEC exam results today! They have worked so hard and deserve every success 🤩✨ @DECinSchools
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1 Mar 2024
A huge well done to our amazing KS3 & KS4 students that took part in todays island wide schools Architecture Challenge! A big congratulations to one of our KS3 teams- Lucy, Lauren, Sam and Flynn for being awarded as the overall winners! @LesQuennevaisSc @architecturejsy @Romerils
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28 Feb 2024
Year 8 enjoying their last DEC Blooket quiz in the last lesson of their DEC rotation! Well done for working so hard year 8, I am very proud of the work you have produced and the progress you have made 🤩👏🏼 @LesQuennevaisSc @DECinSchools
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21 Feb 2024
Not long to go til the island wide schools Architecture competition, organised by @architecturejsy, and being held at @LesQuennevaisSc! Our year 9 & 10 students have been busy over the past few months researching, planning, drawing and modelling in preparation!
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7 Feb 2024
Always proud of how our students rise to the challenge! This amazing Year 9 class are only on their second lesson using Bentley OpenBuildings Designer BIM software, with so many complex skills learnt and so much progress made already! @LesQuennevaisSc @DECinSchools @Edu_Bentley
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1 Feb 2024
Wow, just wow! So pleased to have watched the @LesQuennevaisSc Guys and Dolls musical last night- it was absolutely incredible! I was blown away by every single student’s performance- simply amazing 🤩 a huge well done everyone! So so proud of you all! ❤️
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29 Jan 2024
Incredible work from year 8 doing their ‘Home for everyone’ sketches, inspired by the mood boards they created! Fantastic drawing skills and I am very impressed with their creative and functional designs! Well done year 8! @LesQuennevaisSc @DECinSchools #DECinJsy
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