Education

Pupils from St David's Church of England Primary School in Exeter recently took a free train trip on the Exeter – Exmouth Avocet Line to join the Exe Estuary Management Partnership on a visit to the Exmouth Nature Reserve.

The trip was organised by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership under their “Train trips for schoolchildren” initiative. This aims to introduce more children to rail travel and is run in conjunction with Great Western Railway, who provided free travel for the children and teachers.

The schoolchildren from Emerald Class enjoyed seeing many of the amazing...

Save the Children has today launched a powerful new report laying bare the potentially devastating and lifelong consequences for boys in England who start school significantly trailing girls in basic early language skills. Boys in the South West are suffering as a result of the gender gap – they are 11 percentage points behind their female peers when they start school. 6850 (23%) started school this year behind in basic language and communication skills. Across England, boys are nearly twice as likely to have fallen behind, with the leading children’s charity projecting that if the results...

Devon County Council has issued a compulsory purchase order to enable work to start on a new primary school in Exeter.

The Trinity Church of England primary school is designed to serve the growing community at Newcourt off Topsham Road.

The school was originally planned to open in September 2016.

But building work had to be called off last autumn when Devon could not reach agreement with a number of landowners about rights and access to the proposed site of the school.

Now – following protracted negotiations and a new planning application – agreement has...

Children at Ladysmith Junior School in Exeter received a visit from Bob the Builder who talked to them about the build of their new school and the importance of site safety.

As part of the visit, pupils took part in a competition to have their art work displayed on hoarding around the construction site. BAM Construction Western is building a replacement school for the children. The existing buildings will be demolished and the area landscaped with environmentally friendly grounds when the new school is ready. The children were asked by Bob the Builder (Christian George - Project...