Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (24-27 August):
THEATRE
Playback Youth Theatre presents: Shandytown Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter What is home? What is the line between legality and morality? How do we keep a community alive? http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Strictly Murder Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth April 1939. An English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far away, it seems from the rumblings of the coming war. Their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discovers she has been...
A soldier of the First World War who was born and brought up in Exeter, will be remembered at a public event taking place in the Higher Cemetery of the city on Saturday 15th September, 100 years after he was killed in action.
Walter Hooper grew up at 97 Portland Street before he emigrated with his uncle to America in 1914, the First World War began just a few weeks later.
When United States joined the war in 1917 Walter enlisted with the American Expeditionary Force and served in France as a Private. He was killed in July 1918 aged 21 and was buried in France.
Environmental issues will undoubtedly continue to be the subject of ongoing debate but this year has seen a significant increase in many businesses actually taking action and reviewing current practices. A simple matter of which cup should the staff and/or customers use when drinking tea, coffee or any other beverage, seems to have raised the profile of this important matter.
The media frenzy surrounding the use of non-recyclable or plastic cups has created a positive reaction and realisation that the protection of our world is essential. Devon continues to be at the forefront of...
With an estimated three million children at risk of being hungry during the school holidays in the UK this summer, and as food bank usage is reportedly hitting record highs, Broadclyst Community Garden has joined a nationwide initiative to grow and donate fresh fruit and vegetables to those in need. The charitable initiative sees gardening brand Miracle-Gro connect with FoodCycle projects across the country, including Exeter, to support those at risk of food poverty and social isolation. With the long-term aim to alleviate the nation’s food poverty crisis, the partnership hopes to kick-...
Teignbridge District Council’ childcare play scheme Teignstars is celebrating a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating.
Newton Abbot Leisure Centre has been working hard to achieve good grades with the help of the childcare team led by Childcare Officers Karen Bush and Lindsey Thorne.
Teignstars achieved a ‘good’ rating across the board for effectiveness of the leadership and management, quality of teaching, learning and assessment, personal development, and behaviour and welfare.
The Ofsted report commented that ‘children are happy and settle quickly. They benefit from enjoyable...
Members of the public can get an exclusive insight into hospital life at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital this September at its open day.
From 10am–3pm on Saturday 22nd September, visitors to the hospital’s Wonford site in Barrack Road, Exeter, will have the chance to see our state-of-the-art surgical robot and take guided tours of areas normally off-limits including operating theatres, laboratories, medical imaging, paediatrics, our huge laundry and more.
There will also be fun for all the family with live music, face painting, dancing and delicious street food at the...
After the success of last week’s A-Level results, The Maynard School is thrilled to have achieved another outstanding set of results at GCSE level. In a year of uncertainty and change with the well-publicised reforms to the Year 11 examination system, our students have performed superbly to triple the national average of the top grades of 7, 8 and 9.
There were some remarkable results across the academic departments; of the girls taking Physics, an enormous 90% achieved grades 7-9, the equivalent of an A or A* (and 43% gaining the top scoring grade 9). In fact, across all three...
Exeter School, the city's largest independent school, is celebrating another excellent set of GCSE results.
Almost three-quarters of all grades - 74.5% - were A* or A/9-7, compared to the national average of 20.5%.
Of the 110 pupils in Year 11, 66 achieved 8 or more A* or A/9-7 grades in the year the school celebrates its 20th anniversary of co-education.
Leading achievers Luke Donegan, Josh Grier and Sam Mullan, who all come from Exeter, each scored 11 top grades - Luke and Josh both gained one A^, six A* and four 9 grades and Sam attained eight A* and three 9...
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%.
Overnight closures will be needed at the Alphington junction of the A30 next month (September) while essential resurfacing work is carried out.
The roundabout will be partially closed for four nights from Tuesday 4 September to Friday 7 September.
The westbound on and off-slips will be closed from 7pm on Tuesday 4 September, until 6am the following day. The closure will switch to the eastbound on and off-slips on the evenings of Wednesday 5 September and Thursday 6 September. The final overnight closure, on Friday 7 September, will again close the westbound on and off-slips...
