Student Life

The award winning drama-based education programme, Bin it!, which educates students about responsibility and litter, visited Devon recently as part of its annual nationwide tour of schools. The Bin it! tour encourages young people to work together to make a lasting change to local areas and keep their environment tidy. Last year’s tour visited Sheffield, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Kent, London, as well as a number of other schools across the UK and Northern Ireland. In this week of the 2018 Bin It! tour, the roadshow performed at Cranbrook Education Campus, The Ilfracombe Academy, St John's...

QE Year 9 Student Millie Twigg is being recognised as a Young Hero at the forthcoming Devon Community Honours 2018. Earlier this year Millie shaved her hair off to raise awareness and funds for alopecia. Millie’s brother suffers from the condition and was the motivation behind her fundraising efforts.

Millie said; “I am very excited to have been chosen as a Young Hero but the real hero is my brother who suffers from alopecia and was the inspiration behind my fundraising efforts. So I would like to dedicate this honour to him.”

The Devon Community Honours are sponsored by...

Soggy skies did not dampen enthusiastic sporting spirits on Friday 9th November, when QE welcomed over 250 Year 5 & 6 students from primaries around Crediton, to their Barnfield Campus, for a highly anticipated annual Tag Rugby tournament. Last years’ winners Landscore and Tedburn, were both in attendance determined to defend their trophies.

A total of 24 teams were entered for the championship, with students from Cheriton Bishop, Winkleigh, Yeoford, Haywards, Bow, Copplestone and Sandford also taking part.

After 3 hours of tag-tastic rugby, Landscore and Winkleigh, who...

FarmWise 2018 is gearing up to welcome 1500 schoolchildren from all across Devon to Westpoint, Exeter, to come and learn more about farming in Devon and where their food comes from.

On October 16th, the children, and their teaching staff, will be able to touch, feel and even smell animals and their produce. The organisers aim to send the children back to school understanding why farming is important for Devon, what sort of foods come from Devon farms, and why farming is so important to the environment.

Westpoint will be split up into “zones” of activity, with different...