Education

Pupils and staff at The New School are enjoying new and improved facilities following an extensive refurbishment over the summer holidays.

The New School community returned for the autumn term to find the surroundings at the co-educational prep school for children aged 3-7 had been revitalised.

Three sections of the roof have been replaced and the storm water drainage system has been updated ensuring pupils and staff are warm and dry.

Onsite safety has been improved with a new fire alarm system, fire doors and emergency lighting.

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Twenty-three-year-old James Tetlow, a Mechanical Engineering student from the University of Exeter, has secured a place in the final of the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions innovation competition, which will be hosted by TV presenter Rob Bell at the Royal Academy of Engineering on 22 October 2021.

James has invented Zama Digital, a machine monitoring solution for the manufacturing industry, and will be pitching his innovation against nine other teams of student and graduate innovators in the national final. A sum of £15,000 is up for grabs, providing vital seed money...

QE is proud to announce the launch of its new Sixth Form Leadership Team.

Appointed at the end of last term, the team secured their places by having to embark on a serious of very rigorous of interviews with QE’s interviewers; Director of Post-16 and Head of English Jo Cherrett, Head of Sixth Form Vicky Evans, English Teacher Margaret Moran Mylett and PE Teacher Chloe Smith.

The interviewers all said they were extremely impressed with the maturity and confidence shown by the group, their passion for the school and QE’s values, ‘Respect, Reflection and Resilience’.

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Exeter School welcomed guest of honour, alumnus and executive recruiter, Ikenna Iroche, to its annual Speech Day.

Speech Day was held on 23 September, and during the day, Ikenna gave inspiring talks to individual year groups on turning your dreams into goals, and diversity and inclusion, using his own experiences of integrating into Exeter School in the 1990s from Nigeria.

For his main address in the evening, Ikenna gave an interesting presentation on the path that led him to Exeter School, the importance of accepting others and celebrating diversity to senior pupils,...