Student Life

Tiverton will be the venue for a rare evening of hilarious stand-up comedy by renowned writer, classicist and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, featuring some of ancient history’s funniest and most bizarre stories. But it’s only happening due to the persistence and persuasive powers of a Tiverton pupil as, despite having had five sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Natalie has retired from her career as a stand-up comedian.

Having read Natalie’s book ‘The Ancient Guide to Modern Life’ and heard her standing up for the classics on Radio 4, Harriet Nash – who is currently studying A...

Intrepid staff from the University of Exeter have pedal-powered their way to victory in a national competition designed to encourage people to cycle, whether that be for fun, exercise or to work.

The near 300-strong peloton from the University beat off competition from more than 2,000 organisations nationwide to secure the yellow jersey in this year’s National Cycle Challenge.

In total, staff from the Streatham and St Luke’s campuses covered more than 32,000 miles –well over the circumference of the Earth - over the course of September as part of the challenge.

They...

Giselle Ansley, part of the GB hockey squad who won gold in Rio 2016, paid Exeter School pupils a visit on Thursday 13 October. It was great for pupils to see how somebody from South Devon has gone on to represent GB at the Olympics and brought home a gold medal!

She attended school in South Devon with Mrs Clark and started playing hockey at Paignton Junior Hockey Club before moving to Plymouth Marjon and then continued to play during her studies at Loughborough University. She made her debut for England against South Africa in February 2013.

Giselle spent the first part of...

Exeter Deaf Academy students will share what they imagine might happen at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) at night in the launch of their “Writing With Our Hands” film on Wednesday 19th October.

The showing is part of Exeter’s exetreme imagination festival of writing and stories.

Inspired by objects from the RAMM collection, Exeter Deaf Academy students have produced a book of poetry entitled “Writing With Our Hands”. Working with RAMM and Stories Connect, the students transformed their anthology into a short story “Night at the Museum” which is...