Education

Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education has received £2,220 to fund new equipment for its Sensory Pod to support students’ physical and emotional development needs.

The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation, which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.

The much needed equipment includes a touch activated bubble tube, a UV lamp, soft play items and a play tunnel. The donation supports the work of the Deaf Academy’s Occupational Therapy Team who are already starting to see positive results as the...

An Exeter educational trust has been selected to run Cranbrook’s new two to 16 all-through school.

The Ted Wragg Trust already numbers Isca and St James secondary schools and Whipton Barton infants and junior schools among its members.

Named after distinguished Exeter educationist Ted Wragg, the trust is led by Exeter University, Exeter College, Flybe and EDF.

Devon County Council recommended the Trust as sponsor for the new school and the decision has now been confirmed by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.

New schools cannot be set up by local authorities...

Okehampton Primary School have recently held a number of workshops to provide challenging thinking opportunities for gifted and talented children, these were open to Key Stage 2 pupils gifted in Maths and English.

During the Maths workshop the children built 3D models focusing on triangular numbers and developed team working and team building skills. The English workshop focused on the poem by Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market – and involved story telling, drama and the children wrote and framed their own poems.

This term they aim to further develop the workshop programme...

Exeter College is part of a collaborative group staging Connected Exeter - a digital design weekend - across the city on 18 and 19 October.

Working with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter, along with the Phoenix, the Met Office and the Fab Lab at Exeter Library, the college will stage a number of design-based challenges in its Centre for Creative Industries (CCI) building situated off Queen Street, across the weekend.

The event is open to the public and aimed at young people of secondary school age up to college age...