Education

Exeter School was privileged to receive a visit from renowned author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the School Library Association on Tuesday 10 May. Twenty-two selected pupils in Years 7 and 8 enjoyed a creative writing workshop with the author, who immediately grabbed their attention and challenged their thinking with some Anglo Saxon and modern riddles to solve. He then went on to discuss with them what a good story should comprise. Top of the list was the need to be imaginative and show originality but the importance of...

Two Cornish schools have won £500 following ThinkBIG – a 'Dragons Den' style contest for primary school children held by The Cornwall Association of Primary Heads (CAPH), in partnership with the Education team at law firm, Michelmores.

Winners Kehelland Village School in Camborne and Lanner Primary School in Redruth impressed the judging panel with their innovative ideas on how they would spend £500 to improve one aspect of school life.

The prize money will allow Kehelland Village School to purchase science equipment that tends to only be available to secondary school...

Strange life forms that have travelled through space have been spotted at Exeter Junior School. On 2 September 2015, two kilograms of rocket seeds (that’s the sort of rocket you get in salads) travelled from Baikonur Cosmodrome in a Soyuz 44S rocket to the International Space Station. There the seeds were looked after and stored in micro gravity by Britain’s Tim Peake. The seeds then hitched a ride back to Earth with a couple of friendly cosmonauts. Back on Earth, members of Exeter Junior School Science Club then began their experiments. The children planted 200 seeds from anonymous “Blue...

Two Exeter School Combined Cadet Force (CCF) cadets have been awarded the Jack Sadler Award for outstanding contribution to the combined cadet force contingent (CCF). Warrant Officer and Head of Army section Amanda Herring and Flight Sergeant and Head of the RAF Section Ollie Brady were presented with the brass trophy of an artillery shell case and an engraved medal by Colonel David Carson, Colonel Cadets for the South West.

This is the first time a joint Jack Sadler Award has been made in Exeter School’s history. Contingent Commander, Lieutenant Commander (RN) Dr Geoff Chapman...