Student Life

A former Dawlish Community College student who has been offered a place at Oxford University to study mathematics has returned to the college to speak to aspiring students. Amber Borowiec, who left the college in June 2015, subsequently won a place at the Exeter Mathematics School to study for her ‘A’ levels. She has now been offered at place at Hertford College for October 2017. Amber left Dawlish Community College with several GCSEs, including an A* in mathematics and is currently studying for ‘A’ Levels in mathematics, further mathematics and physics at the Exeter Maths School. After...

Exeter School celebrated the Ides of March, the day Julius Caesar met his end, with a visit by a bestselling author of books about the Romans.

Ben Kane, who has been writing bestsellers about Roman soldiers and gladiators for ten years now, appeared at the school on 15 March dressed as a Roman soldier, bringing with him a complete legionary's equipment: boots, shield, chain mail, helmet and the dreaded gladius, the Roman short sword.

Pupils enjoyed trying the helmet and shield for size and there were some near misses with the sword. Ben then gave a fascinating talk about...

Offwell Primary from Honiton, Redhills Primary in Exeter and the ACE MAT were successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to participate in an Erasmus + project which will be led by CEIP Andrés García Soler from Lorca, Spain.

This project, therefore, includes these two Primary schools from Devon, the MAT, the Spanish school, Scuola Padre Pio from Altamura, Italy and Rigas Classical Gymnasium from Latvia as well as Nebrija University from Madrid.

As part of this project, Primary school students from Offwell Primary in Honiton and Redhills Primary in Exeter have stayed for a week...

A brand new interactive whiteboard, donated to Princetown Primary School by the Dartmoor Classic cycle sportive, is set to open the eyes of pupils this year when it’s used for a series of live broadcasts with groups around the world. Provided to the school as part of Dartmoor Classic’s commitment to engage with local communities and to support good causes, the whiteboard will be used, among other things, to bring the literary world into the classroom after the February half term. Clare Luther, a London-based children’s author whose series of books, including The Safari and Okavango sets,...