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Plymouth College students celebrate outstanding GCSE results

An emotional day at Plymouth College, with students receiving their impressive results. Students have much to celebrate with 43% of all GCSE results graded at A* or A. Plymouth College has an enviable reputation for academic excellence, and this year’s performance consolidates that position.

The school is proud of all the achievements of all of its pupils.

Top performers this...

Local Choir raises £12,000 for CLIC Sargent

On Friday 9th December 2016, La La Choirs held their second annual ‘CLIC for Christmas’ concert at Exeter Cathedral. Performing to a sold-out audience, they started the festive season off with a bang with a selection of Christmas favourites such as the Perry Como classic, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’ and the Louis Armstrong hit ‘Wonderful World’.

The concert was their...

Child starting school in 2017? Act now!

September 2017 may seem ages away but if your child is due to start school you need to start the application process now.

From Monday 5 September the City Council is taking applications from families whose children:

are due to start at primary school for the first time junior school (having completed Year 2 in an infant school) in September 2017 are due to start secondary...

Drake Circus gears up for back to school rush

Schools in Plymouth may have to stock up on extra spare PE kits this term as one in four parents in the city say it’s the back to school essential they’re most likely to forget.

With most schools due to reopen on 1st September, Drake Circus is expecting a last minute rush this weekend as parents get ready for the new term.

In a survey of local parents, Drake Circus found that...

Plymouth teacher selected for prestigious digital education event in Chicago

A Plymouth primary school teacher will be flying to Chicago this summer, after being recognised for her work as a digital pioneer in the classroom.

Claire Trebilcock, ICT Co-ordinator at Boringdon Primary School, has been selected to attend the Discovery Education Summer Institute, an exclusive professional development and networking event taking place in North America this July....

Schools combine for Ten Tors event

Better together – Ridgeway School and Devonport High School for Girls combine for the Ten Tors event in 2016. Once again the combined Ten Tors training group from Ridgeway School and Devonport High School for Girls have entered a strong set of teams at every distance for this year’s event. It is now thirteen years since former Ridgeway School Headteacher John Didymus introduced the Ten Tors event...

SW parents worry their children are not ready to start school

Over half (55%) of South West parents are worried their child will not be ready to start school at the age of five, according to a poll from Action for Children.

The survey of over 1000 parents across the UK also found that of these worried parents from the South West, 63% were concerned that if their child started school behind their peers, they would remain behind – which can...

Have you seen Exeter's Blind Spot?

WESC Foundation (WESC) launches The ‘Exeter’s Blind Spot’ campaign.

Since the charity’s rebrand many people know WESC as the blind school and not by their official name, WESC Foundation. This campaign is aiming to increase awareness and strengthen the association between WESC and the ‘blind school’ that it is so often referred as.

WESC wants to encourage the general public to...

Ridgeway School achieves crowdfunding target

Ridgeway School has achieved its Crowdfunding target of £10,000 thanks to the local community.

The Crowdfunder.co.uk campaign has raised £10,250 towards the cost of installing a 3G football pitch on the school site that will provide a much needed all year round playing surface.

“This innovative approach to fundraising was a part of the Devon Football campaign and it was...

Ridgeway School awarded £2m for building improvements

Ridgeway School has been awarded £2 million for building improvements.

The money has come from two Capital Improvement bids that were submitted to the Education Funding Agency earlier this year.

The first project will be to provide a two storey extension that will house a state-of-the art Performing Arts Centre. This new building will have music classrooms, practice rooms,...

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