Primary school pupils across Devon have been bravely examining the rubbish produced by their packed lunches over the past few weeks in readiness of the County-wide “Waste Free Lunch” week campaign from 10th – 14th March.
Donning gloves, and with strong stomachs, children have been weighing waste, sorting snacks and picking out packaging from the mountain of rubbish generated every day after lunch time.
The aim of the campaign is to reduce the amount of waste produced by packed lunches in schools, and to share innovative ideas for packing “waste free” lunches with pupils,...
Colyton Grammer School in East Devon has received the best GCSE results in the country for the second year running according to the latest school league tables.
The news is perhaps no surprise as the school, which only takes in pupils in the top 25% of the abiltity range, has been named as the Sunday Time’s ‘Co—Educational School of the Year’ on no fewer four occasions.
Headteacher Paul Evans said of the school’s success: “Its a magic formula at Colyton; a group of students who are committed and clearly very able, a very hardworking and talented staff that constantly amaze...
Independent schools could be held to a higher standard of education by regulator Ofsted from next September onwards.
In new plans unveiled today ‘good’ will become the only acceptable standard for independent schools inspected by Ofsted.
Currently, the Ofsted framework for schools has the judgements, outstanding, good, adequate and inadequate. This consultation now seeks views on changing the ‘adequate’ grade to ‘requires improvement.’
This grade will signify that even though a school may be meeting all the independent school standards, this is the minimum...
School Children in Exeter have been helping to raise money for BBC Children in Need.
At schools in the city children dressed up in spotty clothing to match this year's theme.
The money they raised has gone to Exeter and Localities Grief Support for Children, Young People and Their Families and Community Equality Disability Action (CEDA)
Grief support helps children and young people who have suffered the loss of a relative or friend. Providing 1-1 support, Memory Daysand a Youth Forum. To help the Children become happier, more confident,and better able to communicate...
Children from across Devon got the chance to learn about where their food comes from yesterday at the special Farm Wise event organised by Devon County Council. Held in Exeter’s Westpoint Arena, the event saw the Council’s Tenant farmers and students from Bicton College give workshops on food, farming and animal care. Olympic equestrian sportswoman Mary King MBE opened the event, encouraging children to think about farming in Devon. Mary said: “I’m sure a lot of children here didn’t give a thought about where their food comes from before today. But this event will make them think more...
Devon farmers and primary school children will come together for an event designed to take children on the food journey from field to plate.
Approximately 1,200 children from nearly 30 primary and special schools from across Devon will attend the event - the first of its kind in Devon - on Tuesday 22 October, at the Westpoint Arena near Exeter.
The County Council-arranged event, 'Farm Wise Devon', will show young people how good food and drink is produced on Devon's farms, with practical demonstrations from 14 council tenant farmers, and additional support from the Devon...
National, regional and local authority results for the phonics reading check and key stage 1 results have been published by the Department of Education.
The results for Devon show that 73% of six-year-olds in state funded schools (including academies) reached the expected level, four percentage points higher than the overall figure for schools in England. Those who did not achieve the expected level will be offered additional help from teachers to enable them to "catch up".
By year 2 the number of children who reached the expected level in Devon rose to 87%.
Following a rigorous assessment process, the University of Exeter Business School has joined an elite group of international management educators accredited by EQUIS. It becomes one of fewer than 150 Schools worldwide to gain this accreditation, placing it in the top 1% of business schools globally. EQUIS is the leading international system of quality assessment, improvement and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration. EQUIS is run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and its fundamental objective, is to raise the...
Children and young people in Exeter can join a new term of fun singing and song-writing as part of Wren Music’s Roots Music School.
Wren Music is Devon’s leading community music education charity and is running two groups in Exeter, offering young people the chance to learn from professional singing leaders. Based at St Sidwell’s Centre, Exeter Singing Roots meets weekly on Thursdays from 5-6.30pm, where 8-16 year olds learn a rich range of songs and harmonies from all over the world, as well as discovering how to write their own.
The school holidays are about to trigger the start of the busy summer getaway period for Exeter Airport and up to 25,000 passengers will be travelling through the terminal in the next seven days.
The week will see 12,500 passengers using the airport on variety of routes from the Isles of Scilly to as far away as Sharm el Sheikh.
South West flights from Exeter to St. Marys have increased to five a day and over the summer 11,000 passengers will use the service.
The holiday operator Thomson, which has a based Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Exeter, has a busy schedule which...
