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Essential Steps for Minimising Stress and Risk on a School Trip to Brussels

School trips offer valuable educational experiences for students, allowing them to explore new cultures, languages, and historical landmarks. However, organising a school trip requires careful planning and consideration to ensure the safety and well-being of students and minimise potential stress and risk, even in the EU these days . If you're planning a school trip to Brussels, there are several essential steps you can take to minimise stress and risk and ensure a successful and enriching experience for all participants.

Conduct Thorough Risk Assessments

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Val Watson

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Students wowed by boat building brands as part of new employability exchange week

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Posted: Tue, 05/14/2019 - 8:39pm

First South Devon Marine Academy students wowed by boat building brands as part of new employability exchange week with Institut Nautique de Bretagne

What do Fountaine-Pajot, Jeanneau, Beneteau Race Division, Neel Trimarans, Rhea Marine Motor Yachts, Pogo Structures have in common? As well as being phenomenal yacht brands with cutting edge design technologies, they were all visited by Foundation Degree Yacht Operations and Marine Technology students from South Devon Marine Academy for the inaugural employability exchange week.

In January 2019, at Paris Boat Show (Salon...

Exeter College celebrates National ‘Love Our Colleges’ Week

Exeter College is celebrating national ‘Love Our Colleges’ Week– a national celebration of Further Education colleges across the nation.

The nationwide ‘Love Our Colleges’week, 13-17 May 2019, coordinated by the Association of Colleges (AoC) seeks to highlight the brilliant work that goes on in FE colleges.

The campaign also highlights how better investment in Further Education across the country could have a significant return on investment for UK Plc – particularly enabling outstanding colleges like Exeter College to do even more as powerhouses for growth, productivity,...

Two teams from Colyton Grammar School come top in this year’s national Student Investor Challenge

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Posted: Fri, 05/10/2019 - 7:13am

Two teams from Colyton Grammar School, a state selective secondary school in Devon, have come top in the national Student Investor Challenge competition, beating 9,369 teams from schools around the country.

This is the first time that a school has had two teams in the final and taken the top two spots. The winning team from the school – RIJJED, comprising Year 10 students – is the youngest ever team to win the overall competition.

The Student Investor Challenge, which is run by financial education body The London Institute of Banking & Finance, seeks to engage young...

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Tedburn St Mary wins Prince of Wales Award for plastic awareness project

Primary school pupils from a Devon village have won the prestigious Prince of Wales award 2019, for their work tackling plastic pollution in the village.

Two young people between aged 9 from Tedburn St Mary Primary will collect the award for their project - Tedburn Turns the Tide - in a special ceremony at the Devon County Show on Friday May 17 along with their teacher Katie Skinner

The Award, which the Devon County Agricultural Association has run for the past 34 years, is open to Devon-based community projects with entries encouraged from all areas of the community, from...

Google visits school in Exeter to boost kids' online safety

In 2017, Google conducted research with more than 200 teachers to learn about their experience with online safety in the classroom. We found that teachers believe children should start learning about online safety as early as the age of seven and that 99% felt that this should be a part of the curriculum. To help teachers educate their pupils about staying safe online, we launched Be Internet Legends in partnership with family internet safety experts Parent Zone, and it is accredited by the PSHE Association.

Be Internet Legends is an educational programme aimed at 7 - 11-year-olds...

Exeter pupils take home gas safe message

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Posted: Tue, 04/30/2019 - 7:47am

More than 60 pupils from Exeter’s Pinhoe Primary School have taken home important gas safety information after a ‘Safety Seymour’ visit from Wales & West Utilities.

The gas pipeline and emergency service spent time in the school delivering sessions to help drive home the simple steps people can take to stay safe from the dangers of carbon monoxide. The events were part of the company’s ‘Safety Seymour’ programme, which is aimed specifically at six and seven-year olds, and features an interactive day with games, drama and craft to raise awareness of the dangers carbon monoxide...

Traveling to Southeast Asia on a shoestring budget

Asia has long been a popular destination for European backpackers. A holiday to the orient gives visitors a glimpse of the sharp contrast in the ways of life of the east and the west. This enriching experience invariably provides useful fresh perspective. Despite so much having been written about traveling to Asia it remains somewhat of an enigma. Pictures can hardly do justice to Southeast Asia. From the lofty snow-capped mountains to the thronging multitudes of the busy streets, there is no substitute to experiencing the sights, sounds and smells firsthand.

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5 undeniable reasons to consider a career in skilled trades

Plumbers never seem to get any sort of acclaim or praise.

They should, the workers of skilled trades are some of the most important members of the economy.

What makes the skilled trades so wonderful? Should you be looking into these crafts?

Find out more below!

Plying Skilled Trades

The careers of plumbers, electricians, and metalworkers have long been symbols of the blue collar worker.

In the past few decades, many have looked down on the blue collar worker. The favor went to white collar jobs like business executives and stock market...

Exceptional Exeter tops apprenticeship table - bucking national trend

Exeter College - the city’s largest provider of Apprenticeships - is thanking employers and partners for playing a key part in the city’s brilliant Apprenticeship growth, bucking a national trend.

The city of Exeter topped the table as only one of a small handful of cities that bucked a national decline in Apprenticeship starts, according to a report published by the Centre for Cities, a leading think tank.

Exeter College has played a significant part in this success story with more than a thousand starts in year. The next biggest provider contributed 100 starts to the...

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