Education

Children and young people in Exeter can join a new term of fun singing and song-writing as part of Wren Music’s Roots Music School.

Wren Music is Devon’s leading community music education charity and is running two groups in Exeter, offering young people the chance to learn from professional singing leaders. Based at St Sidwell’s Centre, Exeter Singing Roots meets weekly on Thursdays from 5-6.30pm, where 8-16 year olds learn a rich range of songs and harmonies from all over the world, as well as discovering how to write their own.

Teenagers (13-18 year olds) who love to...

Sebastian Wright and James Krafft from Exeter School have been awarded a sought-after Arkwright Engineering Scholarship that identifies them as some of the country’s future leaders in engineering and related areas of design. Seven Exeter School pupils have been awarded Arkwright scholarships in the last four years. The renowned Arkwright Engineering Scholarships provide pupils with a £600 financial award to enhance their A Level studies and a range of activities to increase their understanding and experience of engineering. Exeter School will also receive £400 for each Scholarship awarded...

Exeter School has had a busy summer while the pupils and teachers were on holiday. A major programme of building and refurbishment has been completed, to bring the facilities right up to date just in time for the new school year which starts today (4 September). The Sixth Form have a completely refurbished and extended centre, complete with study and seminar rooms, a lunch facility and new furnishings. The Music School has been rebuilt and expanded by 50%, with a new hall and many new practice rooms. Two new classrooms have been built for the Science and Maths departments. The Dining Hall...

A BBC investigation has revealed that an employee of integrated support services company Carillion, which provides infrastructure services at six Exeter schools (West Exe, St Peter's C of E, St Luke's, St James', Isca and Wynstream Primary School) attempted to cover up a test result that revealed the water supply at St Peter's C of E School contained almost 10 times the legal limit of iron.

The falsified document was reportedly discovered in January, in which a reading for iron that found 1,840 micrograms per litre of water was changed to just 184 by a Carillion employee - the...