Your Neighbourhood Police Teams are always looking at the best ways to engage with our residents.
After trying 'Have Your Say' meetings with limited success we're now going to hold a Community Meeting.
This meeting will be for all residents who live on the 'West Side' of the river including Alphington and Marsh Barton, Cowick and St Thomas and also Exwick.
You'll be able to meet all the Police Teams who manage these area as well as the local Councillors and other partner agency colleagues.
We're currently looking at the agenda to try and cover most topics...
Four Exeter primary schools are working more closely together to improve the education of their 1,270 pupils.
Bowhill, St Thomas, Alphington and Ide have this month formed the Exeter Learning Academy Trust.
All four schools are rated either good or outstanding by Ofsted but they say their closer working links will enable them to focus even more closely on improving their teaching and learning.
They say the governors, staff and members of the community have worked hard to make this happen and to develop a culture and ethos that reflects the four schools.
Parents and local Councillors are campaigning to save services at risk at West Exe Chldrens Centre.
West Exe Childrens Centre on Cowick Street in St Thomas is one of the city's most popular Children's Centres.
The Baby Cafe, which provides essential support for mothers breastfeeding, will be closing altogether, that one of the two (oversubscribed) Hey Let's Play sessions and one of the bi-monthly dad's Stay and Play groups will be cut.
Local mother Angela Grainger said "I moved to St Thomas just before my daughter was born and the Children's Centre was a lifeline...
A former head teacher of an Exeter Technology College, who was paid a salary three times more than the average head, will appear in front of a professional conduct hearing today.
The hearing by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) will consider if Steve Maddern, the former head of West Exe Technolgy College, is responsible for bringing the profession into disrepute.
Steve Maddern, who resigned as head teacher of West Exe Technology College in May 2012 received national attention after it emerged that he was being paid £152,000 per year, around £10,000...
A Secondary school in Exeter was evacuated this morning after a ‘suspicious’ building fire was discovered. Staff and Students were evacuated from West Exe Technology College in St. Thomas after a fire was discovered in the school’s toilets at around 11am this morning. Fire crews from Middle moor and Danes Castle were dispatched to the school following several calls from the public. On arrival, crews confirmed a small fire in the ground floor toilet block. Two of the crew wore breathing apparatus to gain access to the immediate area and ensured the fire was extinguished. Positive pressure...
West Exe College has received a “good” rating from education inspectors.
A team of inspectors from regulator Ofsted visited the school for two days in an announced inspection in mid-January in which they obsered lessons and met with students and staff.
In their report, inspectors praised the good progress made among all students including those with special educational needs or disabilities, commenting: “Individual students’ needs are very well understood and skilled support is quickly put in place when necessary.”
Headteacher Vicki Carah said, “This is a fantastic...
Pupils and staff at West Exe Technology College today showed off their ground-breaking new iPhone, iPad and Android app.The app, exclusively designed for West Exe by leading Exeter based software development agency Rokk Media, provides ‘real-time’ news and information for parents, students, and friends of the college. Vicki Carah, Acting Headteacher, said: "The new mobile app will make it easier than ever before for people to stay in touch with West Exe anywhere, anytime." Managing Director and owner of Rokk Media, and West Exe parent, Adam Stone said: “It has always been our policy to...
Parents at an Exeter school have been sent a letter which says an investigation into the former headteacher's pay has found that professional standards were compromised and the college's reputation was brought into disrepute. It follows the revelation that executive headteacher of West Exe Steve Maddern was earning £152,211 – almost £10,000 more than the Prime Minister. The full letter is below.
19th September 2012
Dear Parent/Carer
As you are aware, West Exe Technology College has been the subject of a Devon County Council audit investigation for some months. We...
Parents from West Exe Children’s Centre are organising a fundraising evening with a difference in aid of Carousel Toy Library, which provides a wide range of good quality toys for children to take home and play with for a week or two.
The toy library, part of the local Merry Go Round charity, faces closure after losing its main funding but families are determined to keep Carousel up and running as it provides a fantastic service for children across the west side of the city.
The event is called ‘Naked Ladies’ and is just for ladies; they can turn up in one...
