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St Luke’s Students Explore Digital Careers in Entrepreneur Workshop

Students at St Luke’s Church of England School in Exeter got a taste of the digital world during a hands-on entrepreneur workshop led by Evo Academy.

Fifteen year 9 and 10 students took part in the session, which offered an introduction to the world of digital enterprise and innovation. The workshop gave students the opportunity to explore how digital skills can be used to develop ideas, solve problems, and create opportunities in a fast-changing world.

Evo Academy was set up to help bridge the gap between traditional education and the needs of today’s digital industries...

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Exeter School raises over £4,700 for charity in one month

On Thursday 12 December, Exeter School’s Sixth Form girls played a charity football match to raise money for the school’s charities with the Lower Sixth beating the Upper Sixth 2-0. Since mid-November, pupils, parents and teachers have raised an astonishing £4,700 through cake sales, mufti days, Movember and collections at the schools’ Advent service and carol concert. Every year, Exeter School pupils from both the Junior and Senior school help select a number of local and internationalcharities for whom they raise funds and awareness. This year’s charities are Children In Need, Shelterbox...

Exeter teenager lands Sandhurst scholarship

An Exeter teenager has secured an Army scholarship and a place at the hugely-prestigious Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Lizzie Godwin, who attends Trent College school in Nottingham, is set to take up her place at the British Army’s celebrated officer training centre on completion of her studies after discovering she had successfully passed the intense two-day ‘Westbury’ assessment in October. Along with rigorous fitness tests, Corporal Godwin, a member of the Combined Cadet Force at Trent College, had to prove her capabilities in a series of mental aptitude tasks, leadership and...

Exeter Deaf Students Have Their Say At National Conference

Students from Exeter Deaf Academy shared their aspirations, from living independently in their own home and attending university to being the first deaf Prime Minister, when attending at a national conference on Tuesday, National Day for Disabled People. The conference aimed to gather views from students of different specialist colleges about why specialist colleges are important and appropriate to them and how they might promote this to potential students in the future.

Exeter Deaf Academy, along with five other specialist colleges, told Natspec how they loved their specialist...

Placements available with East Devon Rangers

Do you have a passion for the countryside? Are you interested in developing your skills in land management and community involvement?

The National Trust East Devon ranger team is offering volunteer ranger placements for up to a year to help them manage 755 hectares of coast and countryside. Based at the ranger’s yard in Branscombe, you will be working on a variety of habitats and sites within East Devon and along the Jurassic Coast. The role will include footpath maintenance, woodland management, working with community and volunteer groups, and assisting with events. As well as on-...

Promoting Inter-Religious Understanding through Education

I have been interested in the world's religions since I was ten years old. It all started at primary school, when I read a book about religion in India. The colour, the beauty, the wisdom spoke to me in a way that the rigid fundamentalism in which I was raised did not. It was whilst reading theology at Exeter University that I became aware that many people shared my fascination, yet, ironically knew surprisingly little about it. 'Hinduism? Isn't that the religion where they wear swords and turbans?' people would say.

Yet, public interest, and contact between...

Exeter Deaf Academy Get Set To Make A Change

Six students from Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education will be getting involved in the “Get Set to Make a Change” initiative managed by the British Olympic Association and the British Paralympic Association.

Six students attended a roadshow yesterday (28 November) where they met both an Olympian and Paralympian. They will also learn how to plan, organise and deliver community projects and events inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games

The roadshow is the first step, the next is to plan and run the community event, guided by a programme mentor. We will be giving...

Exeter School to stage show in new-look hall

The latest phase of improvements to Exeter School has now come to an end with the inauguration of the enlarged dining hall and its smart copper-clad façade.

The newly extended School Hall will be used to its full capacity this week with the Senior School Production of ‘An Italian Straw Hat’ running 28 – 30 November.

Over the past 18 months, the Exeter School Governors have expressed their confidence in the vibrant future by investing well over £2m in providing enhanced facilities across the whole School.

The exciting new Atrium extension to the Junior School, opened...

Pupils get a taste of council work in Sam ’n Ella’s kitchen

Forty pupils from local primary schools "took over" East Devon District Council for a day and had a go at running things.

They even got a ‘taste’ of the work done by EDDC’s Environmental Health inspectors when they visited Sam ’n Ella’s kitchen at Knowle in Sidmouth for a food hygiene check.

On Friday 22 November pupils from the following five schools visited the Council’s HQ to learn more about its services and meet Staff and Councillors:

• St Martin’s in Cranbrook • All Saints’ in Axminster • Bassetts Farm in Exmouth • Branscombe Primary School • Broadhembury...

Fresh veg from school allotment to soup kitchen

Southbrook School pupils are growing seasonal vegetables in their allotment and making soup for the homeless of Exeter. The Soup Kitchen at St David’s Church receives batches of nutritious soup from Southbrook which is distributed on Thursday evenings to the homeless.

The project won this year’s ‘Excellence in Exeter Community Award’ competiton for school based projects that have a direct benefit to the local community. The award forms part of the University of Exeter’s annual ‘Excellence in Exeter’ graduation style awards evening; designed to encourage young people to engage with...

Outstanding school brings learning alive

An East Devon primary has been rated as good with outstanding features for every aspect of school life.

Education inspectors have not visited Branscombe C of E Primary for five years because it has been doing so well.

In 2008 they judged it good and now they say it is performing well with some outstanding features. And that’s despite the inspection regime being toughened up in the meantime.

Last year the primary was judged outstanding by Diocese of Exeter inspectors for its work as a church school.

Now every key element of life at Branscombe has been judged...

Education

St Luke’s Students Explore Digital Careers in Entrepreneur Workshop

Exeter School raises over £4,700 for charity in one month

Exeter teenager lands Sandhurst scholarship

Exeter Deaf Students Have Their Say At National Conference

Placements available with East Devon Rangers

Promoting Inter-Religious Understanding through Education

Exeter Deaf Academy Get Set To Make A Change

Exeter School to stage show in new-look hall

Pupils get a taste of council work in Sam ’n Ella’s kitchen

Fresh veg from school allotment to soup kitchen

Outstanding school brings learning alive

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