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Local schoolchildren help celebrate opening of Loretto Road and Foxhill play areas in Axminster

On Tuesday 28 January 2020 children from St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Axminster and councillors from East Devon District Council celebrated the opening of the newly refurbished Foxhill and Loretto Road play areas.

A total of £157,000 worth of modern and exciting play equipment – chosen by local youngsters and funded by East Devon - has been installed by the council at these...

Winners of the Rotary Club of Plymouth Young Artist of the Year competition 2019

Duru Tanir from Plymouth College and Ashlyn Watts and Isobel Battley from Devonport High School for Girls have each been awarded first prize for their respective age groups in a ceremony held at Plymouth College of Art for the Rotary Club of Plymouth’s Young Artist of the Year 2019 competition.

For the second year running, thanks goes to The Clemas Trust, as students from the Quay...

Devon schoolgirls triumph in countryside charity’s art and writing competitions

More primary school pupils than ever before entered this year's children's art and writing competitions run by the countryside charity CPRE Devon. Many schools took part for the first time, including several in Plymouth and Exeter.

After careful deliberation, the top individual prizes went to a five-year-old girl from Exeter and two ten-year-old girls from Tavistock.

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Plymouth and Barnstaple choirs triumph in Devon Schools Choir Competition

CLIC for Christmas 2016 - final lineup revealed

Schools from Barnstaple and Plymouth have won a chance to perform in a major fundraising concert in Exeter Cathedral.

The Park Community School and Devonport High School emerged victorious from the Devon Schools Choir Competition, run by La La Choirs at Southernhay URC on October 6.

The schools will now perform in Exeter’s...

CLIC for Christmas 2016

Following the phenomenal success of the concert last Christmas which raised nearly £10,000 for CLIC Sargent, on Friday 9th December, La La Choirs will again perform ‘CLIC for Christmas’ at Exeter Cathedral.

For the second year, the event includes running a Devon-wide secondary school choir competition with the winning school choir claiming a featured spot in the concert on the night....

WI petitions to make Asbestos in Schools a national campaign

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Sue Stephens, an ex teacher who retired to Crediton, recently lost her battle against mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Sue taught hundreds of children in her 30 years in the classroom and believed the cancer was caused by the job she loved.

Sue, who had launched a petition calling on the...

Plymouth: The time has come to prioritise the removal of all asbestos from our schools

Sue Stephens, was a primary school teacher in Buckinghamshire for almost 30 years. She was a wonderful teacher and incredibly committed to her job. She taught over 800 children and was loved by so many of them.

Tragically she passed away on 26 June 2016 from mesothelioma, a cancer that comes from exposure to asbestos. It has a very long latency, meaning that many victims are diagnosed...

Sporting extravaganza set to dazzle Devon

A loud, colourful Rio themed parade will kick off the Devon School Games which are coming to Exeter for the first time in their four year history this Wednesday 29th June.

The Devon Summer School Games will take place across 3 sites: Exeter Arena will host the RIO themed opening ceremony with St Luke’s Science and Sports College hosting all the Inclusion Sports and the Exeter Saracens...

SW schoolchildren to take part in My Money Week

Pupils at all schools across the South West are being given the opportunity to learn more about money and personal finance during the eighth annual My Money Week, run by the UK’s leading financial and enterprise education charity Young Enterprise, incorporating pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group). It is the highest profile, and most recognised personal finance education initiative in...

Hoax calls to Devon schools

A Plymouth school and two others in in the South West have received malicious calls, police have said this evening.

Although they were all hoaxes, officers are taking the incidents seriously.

A spokesman said: “We are aware that hoax calls have been made to a number of schools across the country today, and have been informed of malicious calls being made to three schools within...

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