Bikeability cycle training in Devon has been given a glowing endorsement from parents whose children have taken part in the course.
A survey by Devon County Council and the Plymouth School Sports Partnership found that 95% of parents rated the cycle training in Devon highly or very highly.
The effect of providing Bikeability in Devon is also demonstrated by the fact that 64% of pupils who had completed the course would now ride their bikes three or more times a week.
Bikeability is a national initiative offering “cycling proficiency” for the 21st century which has...
The Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), a £30 million environmental research institute at the University of Exeter’s Tremough Campus, Penryn, was formally opened on Tuesday 23 April by more than 120 local school children. The ESI leads cutting-edge interdisciplinary research to find solutions to the problems of environmental change and is working with local children to inspire them to take up careers in research. As part of a week of activities to celebrate the opening of the ESI, students from local schools enjoyed hands-on workshops that demonstrated the institute’s research...
Exeter City FC’s Football in the Community Charitable Trust is to pilot a new three-year learning engagement project, Kick Start, in conjunction with ATASS Respect, to work with children attending schools in the Exeter area.
The programme aims to support 30 children each year who may be at risk of disengaging from education for various reasons. Those who will be invited on to the programme will have shown a capacity to respond to alternative methods of learning, but could be vulnerable to low levels of academic achievement.
A year-long pilot exercise will be split into the...
This Saturday, Cygnet Training Theatre is holding a one-off taster workshop covering acting, movement and voice for anyone over 16 years considering a career in acting.
With Cygnet’s unique selling point of concentration on the individual, this workshop will give you an idea of what it is to train as a professional actor with us. You will be working alongside the Cygnet Company, led by our very own Artistic Director, Alistair Ganley.
Cygnet Training Theatre is the only Drama UK actor training centre in the South West Peninsula, and the only one where students perform in...
A University of Exeter Medical School scientist has received a prestigious Industry Fellowship award, aimed at connecting Academia and Industry. Andrew Randall, Professor of Applied Neurophysiology in the Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, was granted the award by the Royal Society. It allows him to forge new collaborations with Lilly UK, the Surrey-based arm of the international pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly. The research concerns cutting-edge imaging and how it can be applied to understanding dementia. Prof Randall said: “This is a key element in furthering our...
Exeter College hosted its tenth annual Oxford and Cambridge Information Day this week, bringing admissions tutors and undergraduates from both universities to Devon so that local students can hear direct from the experts.
Downing College, Cambridge and Exeter College, Oxford have been working with the further education college in Exeter to organise this event every year since 2003.
Free to attend, the Information Day offered up-to-date information, advice and encouragement to local students about aiming high in their HE choices. The day is part of both collegiate...
Teachers in schools across the globe are turning to a new philosophy to help improve the behaviour and well-being of students. Mindfulness, a form of meditation, has been shown to help with a wide range of mental health conditions and improve well-being in adults. However, few trials have evaluated its effectiveness in children.
Professor Willem Kuyken from the Mood Disorders Centre at the University of Exeter is presenting new research findings from a feasibility trial which show how the mindfulness technique is also effective in improving well-being in young people. Speaking at...
Honiton Primary School has been given the highest possible accolade by education inspectors who have classed it as outstanding.
Not only do they rate the school’s overall effectiveness as outstanding. Every key area of school life also wins the top judgement.
The inspectors say the achievement of pupils, the quality of teaching, the behaviour and safety of pupils and the leadership and management are all outstanding too.
The three inspectors from the school standards agency, Ofsted, delivered their verdict after a two-day visit to Honiton last month. And lead...
Pupils at an Exeter primary are helped to learn by the collaborative ‘can do’ atmosphere throughout the school, according to education inspectors.
And they rate Pinhoe Church of England Primary as a good school on all five key aspects of school life.
They say Pinhoe’s overall effectiveness is good and so is the achievement of pupils, the quality of teaching, the leadership and management and the behaviour and safety of the pupils.
The rating is much improved from the satisfactory grade the school received less than three years ago and since then the school standards...
