Construction Consultants Haldons Ltd. present a cheque of £1000 to Combe Pafford in Torquay, a school which caters for pupils with learning and physical difficulties.
Haldons Ltd multi-disciplinary consultancy donated the funds to sponsor a child to take part in the school's annual residential trip.
Unlike your average excursion, the children visit either Beijing, China or Costa Rica. Over the years Combe Pafford has developed links with vocational schools in China, where the pupils join in on practical lessons like hairdressing, catering. They also have a strong...
Save the Children has today launched a powerful new report laying bare the potentially devastating and lifelong consequences for boys in England who start school significantly trailing girls in basic early language skills. Boys in the South West are suffering as a result of the gender gap – they are 11 percentage points behind their female peers when they start school. 6850 (23%) started school this year behind in basic language and communication skills. Across England, boys are nearly twice as likely to have fallen behind, with the leading children’s charity projecting that if the results...
Children at Ladysmith Junior School in Exeter received a visit from Bob the Builder who talked to them about the build of their new school and the importance of site safety.
As part of the visit, pupils took part in a competition to have their art work displayed on hoarding around the construction site. BAM Construction Western is building a replacement school for the children. The existing buildings will be demolished and the area landscaped with environmentally friendly grounds when the new school is ready. The children were asked by Bob the Builder (Christian George - Project...
“Single sex schools help women become scientists because there is nobody to tell them that they should not be in the lab,” Dame Mary Archer, the current chair of the trustees of the National Science Group, once said.
And if ever there was a case in point, the recent activities at the Maynard School in Exeter reinforce this! On Wednesday 6 July, whilst most of the school were competing at Sports Day, five of the top Sixth Form scientists attended the ‘Britain needs Scientists’ conference at the University of Exeter. They enjoyed lectures from leaders in various scientific fields on...
A consensus statement which includes a University of Exeter researcher says exercise boosts kids’ and young people’s brain power and academic prowess.
Time taken away from lessons for physical activity is time well spent and does not come at the cost of getting good grades, say the 24 signatories to the statement on physical activity in schools and during leisure time, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The Statement, which distils the best available evidence on the impact of physical activity on children and young people, was drawn up by a panel of...
After two days of muddy hands, stomping feet and plenty of smiling faces, David Jones of Manna from Devon Cooking School, along with the pupils of Collaton St Mary Primary School have created the school’s first wood fired oven, ready for outdoor learning, Forest School activities and food education classes, PTFA fundraising and social events.
Students at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, held their own referendum on Europe today (23 June).
During assembly in chapel, they heard two Year 12 politics and economics students put the case to Leave or Remain in the EU, under the watchful eyes of ‘Boris’, ‘Nigel’, ‘George’ and ‘David’.
After an informed hustings, students then voted at lunchtime via the choice of two buttons on a touchpad and the results were fed back to the IT department.
Remain campaign won, with 381 (58%) voting to stay in against 273 to leave.
The governors of Tipton St John Primary School have announced ambitious plans to re-locate their ageing, flood-prone buildings to a brand new site.
The Church of England school has been flooded on a number of occasions with children being evacuated and the school being shut for major clean-up operations.
The governors had applied to Education Minister Lord Nash for funding to re-locate the school within the village.
But they have now been told that the Government will not fund the move to another village site.
Now – following talks with the Diocese of Exeter...
A loud, colourful Rio themed parade will kick off the Devon School Games which are coming to Exeter for the first time in their four year history this Wednesday 29th June.
The Devon Summer School Games will take place across 3 sites: Exeter Arena will host the RIO themed opening ceremony with St Luke’s Science and Sports College hosting all the Inclusion Sports and the Exeter Saracens pitches providing the location for a variety of sporting competition.
The School Games, which are the County Finals and mark the exciting culmination of months of inter-school competitions,...
Sixty-four nine-year-olds from Year 5 at Broadclyst Community Primary School (BCPS) will be taking on the challenge of re-enacting a famous day in Devon’s history when they perform It’s our land in the house and grounds at National Trust Killerton on 16 and 17 June.
The youngsters will recreate the momentous day in 1925 when 20,000 people packed the parklands at Killerton to hear liberal politician and statesman Lloyd George deliver his powerful Land Reform speech to the people of Devon. This eagerly-anticipated speech took place at a time between the wars when landowners, farm...
