Education

Exeter School welcomed guest of honour, alumnus and executive recruiter, Ikenna Iroche, to its annual Speech Day.

Speech Day was held on 23 September, and during the day, Ikenna gave inspiring talks to individual year groups on turning your dreams into goals, and diversity and inclusion, using his own experiences of integrating into Exeter School in the 1990s from Nigeria.

For his main address in the evening, Ikenna gave an interesting presentation on the path that led him to Exeter School, the importance of accepting others and celebrating diversity to senior pupils,...

Sir Michael Morpurgo was the guest of honour at the official opening of Monkerton Community Primary School on 16 September, when guests were given a tour of the state-of-the-art facilities that children in Reception and Year 1 have been enjoying since the start of term. The school has become the fourth in the Cornerstone Academy Trust.

Sir Michael delighted the children by reading his book about being six years old himself, Owl or Pussycat? , and he left the copy of the book for the school library.

He said: “It’s such an honour to be at the beginning of a school. It’s as if...

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It was smiles all around last week as The Maynard GCSE students nervously peeled open their results’ envelopes with anxious parents watching on.

“I wasn’t all that worried until I got out the car but then the butterflies came! I’m just glad it’s all over as the whole process has been quite stressful. I am so happy and honestly wasn’t expecting these results,” said a beaming Natalie Conboy who achieved an incredible eight Grade 9s and one Grade 8.

England basketballer and Team Bath netball player, Natalie Charity, proved her excellent time management skills with some...