A study commissioned by Devon County Council has looked into the reasons why some children miss school due to anxiety.
The findings are helping the Council provide practical advice and information to schools in order that they can better support students, enabling them to keep up their attendance.
Educational Psychologists conducted the study as part of a wider exploration of ‘anxiety based school avoidance’ across Devon.
Their report acknowledges that students miss school, or find it hard to attend, for various reasons such as following a period of illness or...
Learn how to cut grass and weeds without the need of a noisy fossil fuel burning lawnmower or strimmer
This practical day course will cover how to use and maintain a scythe (a traditional mowing tool) and provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to mow anything from a small lawn to a meadow.
During the course we'll make hay the traditional way to encourage wild flowers in the meadow.
Tea and cake provided, participants must be 12+.
Concessions available for EDDC tenants, please contact the Countryside team.
A primary school teacher from Devon has launched an app 'Fonics' designed to help 3-6 year olds learn how to read more effectively. The app is free and is available to download now across all major app stores.
Sophie Cooper “Learning to read is the most important skill we teach children when they first start school, it is a skill they will use every day for the rest of their lives. Those who get left behind will find themselves at a constant disadvantage.”
Fonics is a new type of educational resource that can be used by 3-6 year olds both at school and at home to help them...
Dates 27th Feb – 2nd Mar 2016 Open 10am – 3pm Daily Cost Free Public Admission
This exhibition features the work of 19 photographers who have been moved by our beautiful world enough to document it in all its glory. Some have chosen to focus on the physical landscape, some on the animal world, others have taken nature as their inspiration, whilst some have chosen the beauty of people. What they all have in common is a unique and touching interpretation of the beauty they perceive in the world.
A BEAUTIFUL WORLD is a touring photographic exhibition created and supported by...
A primary school teacher from Devon has launched a new app, 'Fonics' designed to help 3-6 year olds learn to read more efficiently.
With backing from the Government and Virgin start-up, 25-year-old Sophie Cooper who lives in Exeter has got an exciting 2016 ahead of her.
Sophie Cooper: “The way we learn in schools is changing. Digitalisation and e-learning tools are becoming major players in the classroom. Tools that can instantly track and record a student’s progress allow teachers to review their classes work at the end of the each day and tailor tomorrow’s lessons...
To celebrate Global Entrepreneurship week (16th -24th November), Exeter’s students and business professionals were invited to an inspiring development evening of Young Enterprise.
This business development event was held on the 18th November at St James School in Exeter, with delicious food for the networking afterwards sponsored by FRESHA.
The audience were treated to presentations from three of Exeter’s most inspiring, innovative and enterprising business professionals, featuring Wayne Pearce Centre Director of Princesshay, Student Entrepreneur Konstantin Deslov and Polar...
An Exeter secondary school has been ‘transformed’ in just two years and is now a good school with many outstanding qualities, according to independent education inspectors.
And St Peter’s Church of England School is set to get even better, they say.
Just two years ago, inspectors from the schools’ standards agency, Ofsted, said St Peter’s required improvement.
Now they say the overall effectiveness of the school, the quality of teaching and learning, the leadership and management and the personal development, behaviour, welfare and outcomes for pupils are all good...
Our Viewpoint exhibition showcases images from photographers that illustrate the range of effects that can be generated by selecting an ideal vantage point.
These images convey energy in many forms, such as, the power and tension of modernist cityscapes, the visual appeal of landscapes as well as complex patterns of light and shadow.
VIEWPOINT is a touring photographic exhibition created and supported by The Photographic Angle.
Please check website prior to attendance for latest information as dates may be...
Alison Gagg, Education Department Manager at Buckfast Abbey , is celebrating the news that she has been shortlisted for a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC). Initially appointed as part of a one-year project to set up an education service for the Benedictine monks who reside at Buckfast Abbey, 30 years on and Alison is still there, heading up a renowned learning centre that offers an extensive range of programmes and events for children and young people.
The awards are decided by online public vote through the Council...
