In what was probably the final Ofsted inspection of a school before lockdown, school inspectors have confirmed that Colyton Grammar School has maintained its ‘Outstanding’ rating while praising its students, staff and wider school community.
Colyton Grammar School is a state school with 954 students who come from across Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
The school was inspected following a decision by the Department for Education to revisit all schools with an ‘Outstanding’ rating. A previous ruling had deemed that ‘Outstanding’ schools need not be inspected which meant that...
Two teams from Colyton Grammar School, a state selective secondary school in Devon, have come top in the national Student Investor Challenge competition, beating 9,369 teams from schools around the country.
This is the first time that a school has had two teams in the final and taken the top two spots. The winning team from the school – RIJJED, comprising Year 10 students – is the youngest ever team to win the overall competition.
The Student Investor Challenge, which is run by financial education body The London Institute of Banking & Finance, seeks to engage young...
From local sparkling wine to nursery plants, crafts and gifts to locally-produced delicious food, floral workshops and expert panels, together with a newly revamped Children’s Area, the Garden and Food Festival run by the Colyton Grammar School PA is a great day out for all the family.
The Festival returns to Colyton Grammar School on Saturday 11th May between 10.00am and 4.00pm and there is no charge for attendance.
In its 16th year, the 2019 Festival will have more than 60 local gardening, food and craft stalls. Taking place throughout the Colyton Grammar School campus in...
Colyton Grammar School in Devon is one of 16 selective grammar schools in the country to secure a share of a £50 million fund from the Department of Education to support better access for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school has received £490,000 to which it has added its own funds, and money from other external sources of funding, to create a total pot of almost £612,000. The investment will be used to develop its already ambitious and successful initiatives designed to encourage entry for able students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Work by the school over the past two...
Latest figures from the Department for Education (DfE) show that Colyton Grammar School is the best performing co-educational secondary school in England, and the highest scoring school in the South West - Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset. It achieved a Progress 8 score of 1.00, a rating described by the DfE league table as ‘well above average’. Only 14% of 6,530 secondary schools in the country achieved this rating. The Progress 8 benchmark is an accountability measure introduced in 2016 and used by the United Kingdom government to measure the effectiveness of secondary schools in...
Students, parents and staff at Colyton Grammar School are celebrating outstanding GCSE results, which have seen the school outperform the national average by some considerable margin.
In all, 87% of students who sat GCSEs this year achieved the top three grades of 9 to 7. 99% achieved grades 9 to 5, and 40% achieved a grade 9, ten times the national average of 4%.
Some 21 students achieved the coveted eight or more subjects with grade 9, around 18% of this year’s GCSEs cohort. This compares to the national predicted result for this achievement of 0.2%.
Ashwoods Electric Motors, the UK’s largest IPM motor manufacturing facility, have sponsored one of Colyton Grammar School’s VEX Robotics teams, to support STEM in schools and encourage the engineers of the future.
Ashwoods Electric Motors (AEM) design and manufacture bespoke, high-performance electric motors with an international reach. They are based in Exeter, with a new manufacturing facility currently being built just outside the city.
The team that AEM are sponsoring has recently competed in the VEX Robotics Competition. This brings STEM (science, technology,...
Colyton Grammar School's first, Big Art Show is a two day fund raising event featuring artworks by a selection of the finest artists, jewellers, ceramicists and glassmakers from across the region.
Internationally acclaimed Artist Charlie O'Sullivan is our enthusiastic Patron and esteemed Artist Alan Cotton is supporting and exhibiting in the Show. Marine House at Beer and the Steam Gallery have a range of their best selling Artists exhibiting work together with many other professional artists from around the SW. Examples of the artworks can be seen and purchased 6 weeks prior to...
