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Parents in Exeter rally against the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Defending alternative education and parental rights

Parents rally against the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Defending alternative education and parental rights #ChildrensWellbeingBill Parents are set to gather on 8th March 2025 in Bedford Street, Exeter (and major cities across England, including London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham). This coordinated rally aims to protest the proposed bill. This deeply concerning piece of legislation threatens educational freedoms and prioritises data collection over children's actual well-being.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (CWSB) is being presented as a...

Composer watches Exeter School perform his piece at Exeter Cathedral

The Exeter School Junior Choir, Middle School Choir and Senior Choir joined together with friends of Exeter School for a wonderful Choral Society concert in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March. The concert began with Paul Patterson’s Magnificat, conducted by Director of Music Mr Tamblyn. This was a challenging and exciting piece for the choir to learn; everybody enjoyed perfecting the rhythmic and harmonic complexities, and thrilled by the eight-piece brass band and two percussionists, who added real drive and verve to the music. We were honoured to have Mr Patterson, an internationally...

Chancellor to call for longer school days

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 03/15/2016 - 8:30am

Chancellor George Osborne is expected to use his Budget speech to call for an extension to school days.

Schools will be able to bid for funding for extra activities like sport and art.

Mr Osborne's will also pledge that every school in England will be removed from local authority control.

Schools will either have to have converted by 2020 or have an academy order in place by then.

For any school that fails to have a plan in place, the government will take on radical new powers to intervene and ensure academy conversion takes place.

Academy status,...

Exeter School team accelerate into National F1 final

Exeter School's F1 in Schools team, Burning Rubber, has won a place in the National Final of the STEM competition.

The team of six Year 10 pupils took four prizes at the F1 in Schools South West Regional Final held at Exeter University on Tuesday 1 March.

Burning Rubber began preparing for the F1 in Schools competition back in July and eight months later the team, accompanied by Dr Rowland and Miss Offord, have made it into the Final.

The competition was an all-day event, held in the Great Hall at the Streatham campus of the University of Exeter. In the morning, the...

Councillors put under the spotlight

A group of councillors from East Devon District Council, Devon County Council and Ottery St Mary Town Council were recently put under the spotlight at King’s School in Ottery St Mary, when they were subjected to tough questions fired at them every three minutes by 180 Year 11 pupils during two rounds of political speed dating.

East Devon District Councillor Phil Twiss was voted a clear winner at both events and spoke highly of the well thought out questions he was asked and how happy he was to meet such enthusiastic young people.

Political speed dating is a fast-paced and...

Exeter students selected for England Hockey Squad

Two Exeter School pupils are celebrating their selection on the England Hockey squads.

Sixth Former Sophie Jefferson and Upper Fifth Former Bill Taylor have the opportunity to represent their country in the U18 and U16 squads respectively.

The two Exeter School hockey players are the latest pupils to be included in the national age group squads – six pupils have been selected over the last five years.

Head of Hockey Ed Jones said their selection put them in the top 26 players in the country at their age.

“The next training camp will take place over the half...

Red roses raise funds for charity

The sale of red roses for Valentine's Day at Blundell's School has raised more than £390 for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust. In what has become a tradition, Year 12 girls in North Close House at the school organise an initiative where, for a small fee, pupils write a message on labels which the girls then tie onto the roses.

They then deliver the blooms to the lucky recipients, thus guaranteeing the anonymity of the givers. DATT is the North Close girls' charity for the year and they will be raising more funds at other events.

Last year, pupils at Blundell's raised more than...

Exeter travel firm marks 10-year milestone

Exeter-based travel consultancy, the School Travel Consultancy (The STC), will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this month by sending out the message to not stop travelling.

Since the city-based firm started trading in 2006, it has sent as many as 2,500 secondary school pupils from across the country to worldwide destinations including Vietnam, Tanzania and Morocco. Pupils have embarked on activities from visiting remote tribal communities in Venezuela and trekking in the Himalaya, to building playgrounds in Morocco and helping turtle conservation in Costa Rica.

Over the...

UK Supreme Court president visits University of Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 02/10/2016 - 10:13pm

The Right Hon Lord Neuberger, President of the UK Supreme Court, has visited the University of Exeter to meet staff and students.

Lord Neuberger’s informal visit came following an invitation from student Ammar Khan, who spent time shadowing him earlier this year. He asked to meet students during his time at the Streatham campus and spent an hour answering their questions on a wide variety of topics, including how to create a more diverse group of judges, the pressures faced by the judiciary and media coverage of court cases.

He met separately with undergraduates and...

7 money-saving hacks for students

If you are a student, it means you are not earning money. But, you are spending a lot of money on different things. Whether it is on books or hanging out with friends in a pub. Whatever it is, if you fail to manage your money properly, you will end up in a great trouble.

So here in this post, I have shared some money savings tips, that will help you during your student life.

1. Shop carefully It is true that you want to look your best when you are a student. For this, you need to have some good dresses and footwear to wear and flaunt to your friends. With changing trends...

Video game features at Exeter Museum

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 01/20/2016 - 11:52am

Pioneering work by a University of Exeter researcher will see the principles behind video games used to expand what visitors to the city’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) can learn and see.

Work has started on a three year project to build upon the features which make video games so engaging, such as challenges and working towards goals, to help enhance the popular exhibits at the RAMM.

Sofia Romualdo, a PhD student at the University of Exeter, will bring “gameful design” to the work of the museum. Sofia’s University of Exeter supervisor is Professor...

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