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Devon’s first Women’s Cricket Academy in a state college setting launches

Exeter College has launched Devon’s first Women’s Cricket Academy based at a non‑fee‑paying college, offering an exceptional new opportunity for young female cricketers to develop their cricketing potential alongside their academic studies.

Ahead of a busy summer season the side is actively recruiting new players. This will begin with trials on Thursday 30 April at Buzz About Cricket’s indoor facility in Cullompton, and aspiring players joining the College this September are now being encouraged to register their interest.

Until now, high‑level cricket academies for...

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Pupils stay CO smart with art

Year 6 pupils across the South West are putting their artistic skills to the test as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.

Wales & West Utilities is working with The Carbon Monoxide and Gas Safety Society to help better inform children, who are amongst those most at risk of the CO poisoning, the so-called silent killer.

Children aged 10-11 will be looking to channel their inner Picasso and create an informative work of art that could help save lives. The poster competition offers pupils the chance to learn all about the...

Big Bang comes to Exeter

Young people from across the county will be hoping for their very own Big Bang moment at the biggest-ever science, technology, engineering and maths fair next month.

The University of Exeter, which will host the fourth Big Bang Fair South West on June 26, will be a hive of activity as 2000 students, teachers and guests arrive for a day of education, engagement and competition, backed by the Education Business Partnership – South West.

More than 150 student projects will be on show to be judged by a panel of over 100 industry professionals for the chance to win the coveted...

Clyst St Mary pupils visit solar park site

Pupils from Clyst St Mary Primary School years four and five spent a day learning about energy from the sun and went on a hunt for bugs and wildflowers at a site visit to a proposed new solar park at Shepherd’s Farm on Friday (June 6). The session was organised by Solstice Renewables who are planning to develop a 7.5 MW solar park at the site, which would generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of 2,250 average homes annually. Ellie Wilkinson, Deputy Headteacher and Head of Science at Clyst St Mary Primary school said: "This is a great learning experience for the children - as...

New approach to writing changes policy and practice

A decade of research into the development of writing in school-aged children at the University of Exeter has shaped classroom practice in the teaching of writing and informed national and international policy.

This has resulted in measurable improvements to children’s writing abilities and has changed ways of thinking about writing. The research is being celebrated by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) who have awarded the Centre for Research in Writing with this year’s ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize. Embedding grammar in the teaching of writing can have a positive...

Bicton College Military Academy Launches National Initiative

Staff and students from Bicton’s Military and Public Services Academy (MaPS) have this week introduced their education programme to dignitaries from across the country.

Representatives from the Ministry of Defence, other UK colleges, Skills for Armed Forces plus further associates were invited to a presentation day about the framework for the popular MaPS Academy, and the strategy for opening the programme up on a national level.

The MaPS Academy is currently based at Bicton College in East Devon and provides residential preparation courses designed to give students the...

Year 11 pupils runners up in national competition

Two Exeter School pupils are runners up in a national competition organised by the Oxford German Network.

Upper Fifth Formers (Year 11) pupils Rebecca Richardson and Abby Pelling took part in the German For The Future competition, part of the Oxford German Olympiad 2014, during their GCSE exams.

They had to fill in a two-page survey in German answering questions about what primary school children should learn about in their German lessons and why; which Bruder Grimm fairy tales they would recommend be told to children and why; and which German speaking town or area would be...

Richard Jenkins joins Bicton College

Head of Royal Marines Education Accreditation Richard Jenkins joins Bicton College as Head of Employer Engagement

Bicton College’s highly successful Apprenticeship team enjoyed a further boost this week as it welcomed former Royal Marine Richard Jenkins as Head of Employer Engagement.

Bringing a wealth of knowledge to the role at Bicton, following five years as Royal Marines Apprenticeships Manager, Richard has travelled extensively around the world engaged in military exercises and sporting events, including representing GB in the world Dragon Boat Championships, and being...

Exeter school choir sings for Radio 4

On Wednesday afternoon, five members of the Junior School Choir were invited to Jack Simpson House in Heavitree to take part in a recording for Radio 4's You and Yours programme, currently scheduled to be broadcast on Friday 20 June.

The children sang several songs and were interviewed by the presenter Carolyn Atkinson both individually and while chatting to the residents.

The programme will concentrate on how the charity' Kissing It Better' brings the wider community in to the home, engaging the residents with conversation and music.

Music Teacher Rachel Mitchell...

New Forest School launches in Exmouth

A new Forest School has launched in Exmouth to bring exciting outdoor activities to toddlers, children and adults.

Exmouth Forest School will officially open on Saturday 21 June 2014 with a FREE family fun open day for everyone to come and explore the new site.

Exmouth Forest School is part of the Exeter Outdoors company, a social enterprise based in Exeter providing Forest School Leader training courses and outdoor learning experiences for schools throughout the South West.

The new Forest School has been set up by passionate Forest School Leaders who have set up...

Exeter student lands international fellowship

A student at the University of Exeter has been honoured with a prestigious international award, designed to promote female excellence in the pioneering sphere of aerospace research.

Anusha Mujumdar has been selected to receive a Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship – one of only 35 students worldwide to be bestowed with the coveted award.

The third year PhD student in Applied Mathematics, from Bangalore, received the award to assist in her pioneering research, which will be used to help develop space craft control for the proposed Mars Sample Return mission,...

Education

Devon’s first Women’s Cricket Academy in a state college setting launches

Pupils stay CO smart with art

Big Bang comes to Exeter

Clyst St Mary pupils visit solar park site

New approach to writing changes policy and practice

Bicton College Military Academy Launches National Initiative

Year 11 pupils runners up in national competition

Richard Jenkins joins Bicton College

Exeter school choir sings for Radio 4

New Forest School launches in Exmouth

Exeter student lands international fellowship

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