Community Interest Company, Beach Schools South West won the accolade of Best Rural Educational Business at the prestigious finals event held by the Rural Business Awards at Bath Racecourse.
Company Directors Tess Stuber and Alexis Bowater represented the Beach Schools South West team as they attended the event, being one of five businesses in their category to reach the finals.
Beach Schools South West make it no secret that they are proud to teach on the beach. Their full-time practitioner travels around the beaches of the South West to take children out of the classroom...
More than 200 schools are closed across Devon today and an amber weather warning in place as snow blanketed much of the county.
Heavier wintry showers and strong winds are forecast later this afternoon posing even more tricky conditions for drivers.
The Met Office has issued RED warning for the county with the risk of up to 20cm of snow countywide, with the possibility of 50cm on high ground of Dartmoor and Exmoor.
Snowfall is expected to spread north throughout the course of the day. Conditions could become more disruptive to travel as the day progresses.
Primary schools in Devon have joined thousands of UK children to take part in a whale sized schools project throughout October.
ORCA, a leading UK marine conservation charity, is launching its first ever Whale Education Month to coincide with World Animal Day on the October 4th. The new marine conservation scheme aims to inspire pupils about the wonders of whales and dolphins, pointing out that a third of all whale and dolphin species can be found in European waters and many around the coast of Britain. The charity’s expert conservationists have produced free resources for teachers...
Schools across Devon stand to gain £7.5 million more from the Government's proposed new funding formula, it has been revealed.
Education Secretary Justine Greening announced the revised formula last Thursday and accountants at County Hall in Exeter have been number crunching the figures.
Their initial calculations show that schools across the county should share in an extra £7.5 million if the formula remains as announced.
Devon County Council leader John Hart said the initial formula announced by the Government would have left two thirds of the pupils in Devon's...
A group of students have been fined by a language school after they spray-painted graffiti on buildings in Exeter. The students were each fined £75 by the Globe English School in St David’s Hill, Exeter, after they defaced parts of the Quay.
Exeter City Council, who were called in to remove the graffiti, said the money - £1,125 in total – would go towards the cost of chemicals used to remove graffiti in the city. Cllr Stephen Brimble, Lead Councillor for Place, said he was delighted with the School’s initiative to fine 15 of their students.
While everybody in the UK is still wondering what the consequences the country´s path to Brexit will actually bring about, some schools like Offwell Primary from Honiton and Redhills Primary from Exeter as well as the ACE MAT from Devon have been successful in gaining Erasmus+ funding to participate in a pioneering Erasmus+ project with Spain, Italy and Latvia which is led by the English teacher, Enrique Ruiz Cano, from Andrés García Soler Primary in Spain.
This project, therefore, includes these two Primary schools from Devon, the ACE MAT, the Spanish school, Scuola Padre Pio from...
Twenty-two students from Blundell’s School took part in the annual Ten Tors event on Dartmoor over the weekend.
Despite gale force conditions in camp the night before the event, reducing sleep to just a couple of hours, all students made it to the start line at 7am and completed their respective distances in great spirits.
Conditions which improved as the weekend progressed served well to spur them on. Blundell’s fielded three teams; two 35 mile groups and a 45 mile group.
They were also fortunate to be offered places for four individuals with other teams, two with...
The full council meeting of Exeter City Council on 25th April passed a motion opposing central government education funding cuts and calling for revision of the proposed funding formula which otherwise would together result in an average cut of £420 per annum for Exeter students.
Councillor Hannah Packham moved the motion arguing that: “When leaders in our local schools, the Devon Association of Secondary Heads, and the Devon Association of Primary Heads, describe the current funding situation in Devon schools as reaching “a real crisis point in the immediate future” we need to...
Visit Exeter - a new brand for the city - is being launched today (29 March).
Exeter City Council’s tourism team will launch its new identity at the iconic Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
Formerly marketed as part of the Heart of Devon Tourism Partnership, a new brand has been developed for Exeter, celebrating the diversity of experiences on offer here, and helping Exeter on its journey as one of the South West’s best love cities. The launch will focus on eight fantastic experiences, celebrating not only the tradition and heritage the city is often best known for, but also...
Pupils from Westcountry schools used genetic processes commonly seen in TV crime dramas to help solve the mystery of who is sabotaging Devon’s very own Bake Off.
Year 9s from Devon, Dorset and Somerset got hands-on with scientists in University of Exeter Medical School laboratories in British Science Week, when they used state-of-the-art microbiology and DNA analysis techniques to unravel a scandal which had erupted in the “Great Bideford Bake Off”.
The scenario involved an outcry as the Westcountry’s most talented bread makers ended up with soggy bottoms as their loaves...
