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Wynstream’s Dodgeball Stars Advance to National Finals for Third Year Running

Wynstream Primary School in Exeter, part of Education South West , is celebrating a remarkable sporting achievement as its Under 11 Dodgeball team progressed to the National Finals for the third consecutive year, this time achieving their highest-ever finish at the regional stage with a runner-up position.

The team stormed through the group stage with an unbeaten 100% record, winning all five matches to top their group. They then overcame Montgomery in the semi-finals, a team they had never beaten before, in a thrilling match that secured them a place in the final.

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Tesco help children learn where food comes from at Farm Wise event

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Posted: Thu, 10/16/2014 - 10:55am

Hundreds of schoolchildren were given the opportunity to learn about where their food comes from, by visiting The Tesco Eat Happy Project stand at Farm Wise in Devon.

They joined over 6,400 Devon-based children who have already enjoyed a Farm to Fork Trail in a local Tesco store.

The Tesco Eat Happy Project attended Farm Wise in Devon, an event organised by Devon County Council to educate schoolchildren about the journey their food goes on and its nutritional content. The event was held at the WestPoint Arena, Exeter and started at 9.30am.

Children met local farmers...

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Calling all Gifted and Talented Children to the Socrates Society

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Posted: Mon, 10/13/2014 - 8:30am

Okehampton Primary School have recently held a number of workshops to provide challenging thinking opportunities for gifted and talented children, these were open to Key Stage 2 pupils gifted in Maths and English.

During the Maths workshop the children built 3D models focusing on triangular numbers and developed team working and team building skills. The English workshop focused on the poem by Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market – and involved story telling, drama and the children wrote and framed their own poems.

This term they aim to further develop the workshop programme...

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Exeter School hosts joint lecture

Exeter School hosted a joint local Geographical Association/South West Region Royal Geographical Society evening lecture attended by RGS members and over 100 pupils and parents from Exeter School, King’s Taunton, Taunton School and King Alfred’s School in Burnham on Sea.

Attended by 119 people, the lecture was given by Dr Stewart Barr, senior lecturer in the geography department at Exeter University, on 7 October.

Entitled ‘Are You Doing Your Bit? Environmental Responsibility in an Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change’, this was a fascinating and challenging lecture which...

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Digital event will inspire next generation

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 10/09/2014 - 11:10am

Exeter College is part of a collaborative group staging Connected Exeter - a digital design weekend - across the city on 18 and 19 October.

Working with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter, along with the Phoenix, the Met Office and the Fab Lab at Exeter Library, the college will stage a number of design-based challenges in its Centre for Creative Industries (CCI) building situated off Queen Street, across the weekend.

The event is open to the public and aimed at young people of secondary school age up to college age...

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Tesco Eat Happy Project attends Farm Wise event

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 10/08/2014 - 10:58am

Hundreds more schoolchildren will next week be given the opportunity to learn about where their food comes from by visiting The Tesco Eat Happy Project stand, adding to the 6,400 Devon-based children who have already enjoyed a Farm to Fork Trail in a local Tesco store.

The Tesco Eat Happy Project is delighted to be attending Farm Wise in Devon, an event being organised by Devon County Council to educate schoolchildren about the journey their food goes on and its nutritional content. The event takes place at the Westpoint Arena, Exeter on Tuesday 14 October 2014.

Children...

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Grants available for Devon schools

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 10/06/2014 - 10:52am

Grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 are available for schools in Devon to develop creative and engaging learning experiences that will develop students skills in enterprise and innovation.

Devon County Council's Enterprise in Schools Grant (EiSG) programme is open to state funded and primary schools benefitting Year 6 pupils and above.

The grant scheme follows on from a pilot scheme launched at the beginning of the year which saw five Devon schools receive a programme of entrepreneurial learning activities.

Applications must focus on entrepreneurship and enterprise...

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Schoolchildren flock back to Farm Wise event

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 10/06/2014 - 10:41am

Based on the enormous success of last years ‘Farm wise’, Devon County Council farm tenants and primary school children will once again come together for an event designed to take children on the food journey from field to plate.

Approximately 1,400 children from nearly 30 primary and special schools from across Devon will attend the event on Tuesday 14 October, at the Westpoint Arena near Exeter.

The County Council-arranged event, ‘Farm Wise Devon’, will show young people how food and drink is produced on Devon’s farms, with practical demonstrations from 12 council tenant...

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Expansion plan for city primary

A £1.8 million expansion plan for an Exeter primary school is set to be given the go ahead next week.

The plan is for St Leonard’s C of E Primary School to expand from 420 children to 630 places by September next year.

This would entail the construction of a new single-storey, six classroom teaching block on the school site off Topsham Road.

Devon County Council’s Cabinet meets next Wednesday (8 October) to discuss the project which it is being recommended to approve.

Devon’s Cabinet member for schools, James McInnes, said: “We have already invested £9...

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Book signed by Queen Victoria

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 09/30/2014 - 10:33am

An Exeter Junior School pupil shared one of the most amazing artefacts seen to date in the Junior School.

Dominic Manning brought in a copy of the memoirs of Queen Victoria, signed by the Queen herself in 1879!

Dominic's history teacher, Giles Ashman, said: "Not only was the signature absolutely remarkable but the children quite enjoyed hearing about Queen Victoria's travels around the country!"

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