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What Makes the School Leavers Experience So Important for Students Today

Leaving school is strange. One day you're sitting in a classroom that's been part of your daily routine for years, and then fairly suddenly, it isn't. No dramatic ending, no clean break, just a gradual realisation that something significant is coming to a close. For young people in the UK today, that transition has become one of the most emotionally loaded periods of their lives, and the way they mark it says a lot about what this generation values.

More Than Just the End of Term

It would be easy to dismiss the school leavers period as simply the end of compulsory education. Tick...

Student of the year is aiming sky high

West Exe’s current student of the year is aiming high during her last year at secondary school.

Camille Murray won the school’s 2016 student of the year award, also gaining a certificate for a hundred percent attendance throughout her time at West Exe.

The award has given Camille, 15, the inspiration to excel in everything she does. The student is keen to enrol on Exeter College’s Flybe course next September.

“I want to travel the world and be paid for it,” she said.

The fifteen-year-old has always loved visiting new places, Camille said: “The job will...

Exeter schoolchildren win prizes for Road Safety Week project

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Posted: Sat, 12/03/2016 - 10:18am

Children from Stoke Hill Junior School, Exeter, had a fun time during Road Safety Week (November 21-27, 2016) thinking about – and illustrating - how they can help to make roads safer.

The national awareness week is the flagship event of Brake, the road safety charity, and called for people to ‘Make the Brake Pledge’ to change their behaviour to make roads safer for all users – whether drivers, passengers or pedestrians.

To celebrate this idea, local Brain Injury Group member firm Foot Anstey asked children at Stoke Hill to illustrate how they might improve road safety –...

BBC Professor makes podcast with Exeter Cathedral School

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Posted: Thu, 12/01/2016 - 10:27am

Exeter Cathedral School pupils have been joined by a celebrated History Professor to create their very own podcast. The Year 2 pupils were very excited to welcome Professor James Daybell (co-creator of ‘Histories of the Unexpected’ with the BBC’s Sam Willis), for the making of their first podcast in Exeter Cathedral's Chapter House and the opening of their exhibition, ‘A Walk Through Time.’

Inspired by the rich heritage of Exeter, the children had been learning about homes through the ages, from Neolithic to Victorian times. The exhibition was a celebration of their work and an...

Honiton Dragons’ Den attracts community groups in need of funding

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Posted: Sun, 11/27/2016 - 4:23pm

Innovative event run by Active East Devon, District, Town and County Councils gives local projects a boost

Over 30 people from six Honiton based community groups packed the town’s Beehive centre as they took part in the third annual Honiton Dragons’ Den – a community funding event, which took place on 26 October 2016. Representatives from Action East Devon, East Devon District Council, Devon County Council and Honiton Town Council, were also present.

Funding for the 2016 event –totalling £4,000 - came from Devon County Councillors (DCC) Cllr Sara Randall-Johnson and Cllr...

200 free theatre tickets for Exeter students

As a result of a new partnership between The Bike Shed Theatre and Hawksmoor Investment Management, two hundred young people from Exeter’s secondary schools and colleges will be given the opportunity to go to the theatre.

Complimentary tickets will be given to students who might not ordinarily be able to attend. Visiting in small groups up to five, they will also have the chance to meet the cast and the creative team to find out more about the production and how new shows are created.

Students from West Exe school, Isca College, St James and St Peters along with Exeter...

Exeter School's National Trust concert

For many pupils, parents and National Trust supporters, the Exeter School Concert in aid of the National Trust in Exeter Cathedral is a favourite in the calendar. For the sixteenth year running, the concert showcases the school’s senior orchestral groups, brass and choirs in the magnificent cathedral setting. Around 200 pupils ranging in age from 11 up to 18 will be making this year’s concert on Tuesday 6 December a night to remember. Director of Music Peter Tamblyn said: “In such an impressive venue, the annual National Trust Christmas Concert at Exeter Cathedral is a highlight of the...

Degrees that give you the most bang for your buck in the UK

University; what a place, what a time. Nowhere else can you unapologetically sleep most of the day and party all of the night; a cycle only punctuated by trips to a local convenience store in your PJs. You know, the one that existed solely to exchange your student loan with ridiculously overpriced frozen pizza and processed sandwiches.

Well, that’s what higher education was as far as I could see. But, then again, it was only two grand a year back then. That meant that more than a few people were attending just for a 3-year party in the student bubble of no responsibilities....

Devon and Spain lead innovative Erasmus+ project with Latvia and Italy

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Posted: Tue, 11/01/2016 - 11:54am

Offwell Primary from Honiton, Redhills Primary in Exeter and the ACE MAT have been successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to take part in an Erasmus + project which will be coordinated by the English teacher, Enrique Ruiz from CEIP Andrés García Soler in 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 Antonio de Nebrija University from Madrid.

This is one of the very few projects in the EU which will involve such a...

Exeter School raises £3,000 for charity

Exeter School pupils, parents and staff have succeeded in raising over £3,000 for charity over the first half-term of the academic year on top of collections of food and household essentials.

Three Houses have held cake sales to raise funds for their chosen charities. Daw raised almost £150 for The Francis Crick Institute, Drake raised over £200 for Tearfund and Crossing collected over £300 for Cancer Research.

School Chaplain, Revd Tom Carson, held two Harvest Festivals in Chapel this month, one for the Junior School and one for the Senior School. Pupils from across the...

Exeter student launches debut novel

An exciting debut novel by a young writer, Trace This Scar marks a change from the tone of the first offering by Jessikah Hope Stenson.

Following on from her collection of short stories titled A Single Drop Of Perfect & Other Stories, released in February 2016, Trace This Scar is a psychological thriller with a strong crime focus.

Due for release 24th November, Trace This Scar tells the story of a woman named Daphne whose husband is sent to prison for a murder she knows he did not commit. Packed with lies and betrayals and the mystery surrounding the murder, Trace This...

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