students at Dawlish Community College were presented with awards for their achievements in maths, science and design technology.

For the third year, the college hosted its specialism awards ceremony which recognises individual performances from the specialism curriculum areas.

Dr Anna Nicholson, a former college student, presented the awards, giving an overview of her own academic career.

She recently completed a Phd and now works for a cancer charity doing research, one of a large number of students who have gone on to achieve successful academic careers including most recently Ben Whitlock, who is studying at Oxford University.

Dr Nicholson reinforced to students the importance of commitment, resilience and self-belief, all key attributes she believes have a significant impact on personal success.

The 30 award recipients ranged from Year 7 to Year 11 students.

All had been nominated by the college's faculty team leaders for their high performance within the specialism curriculum areas over the autumn term.

At the ceremony, students received both a certificate and trophy with an additional cup presented to two students nominated for their overall Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 outstanding specialism performance.

Lin Caunter, assistant principal and director of college specialism praised the students for their excellent achievements and thanked them for being great ambassadors of the college.<