Education

Drake Primary Pupils Learn About Food at Eden Project Visit

Pupils at Drake Primary Academy, part of the Reach South Academy Trust, visited the Eden Project to learn more about where food comes from and how it reaches our plates.

Before entering the biomes, pupils planned their best packed lunch, thinking about the ingredients needed to create a balanced meal.

During a guided tour, pupils identified the ingredients and learned where...

Ilfracombe Academy Students Shine with Award-Winning Hedgehog Business

Budding entrepreneurs from The Ilfracombe Academy , part of Athena Learning Trust, have made a strong impression at their first Young Enterprise trade fair in Exeter.

Under their business name, The Wild Workshop , the Year 12 team designs and sells homemade hedgehog houses focused on sustainability and conservation. They received positive feedback from the judges and won the award...

Pupils at Cranbrook Education Campus have been putting their problem-solving skills to the test in the international Bebras Challenge.

Pupils at Cranbrook Education Campus have been putting their problem-solving skills to the test in the international Bebras Challenge.

Scores of pupils from years 5–10 took part, gaining a real taste of computational thinking in action.

The Bebras Challenge introduces computational thinking to students across the globe. In 2025, over 2.5 million students from 85 countries...

Teign School Announces New Programme of Parent and Community Workshops

Teign School, part of Education South West, is pleased to announce a new programme of parent and community workshops designed to promote wellbeing, resilience, and learning for all.

Following the launch of The Nest last term — a support hub created to help students experiencing emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) — Teign School is now extending its focus to the wider community...

Kingsbridge Students Gear Up for Safer Driving

Students at Kingsbridge Community College (KCC), part of Education South West , have taken part in a road safety workshop this month run by Learn2Live, an organisation which works to highlight the dangers young drivers face.

Representatives from Learn2Live came along to the college to give a presentation. The talk included expert speakers from Local Authority Road Safety Teams, Devon...

Don't let the winter holiday freeze your brain: Top tips on getting the most out of the festive season

It's the start of the Christmas holidays and many students will be looking forward to staying up late, switching the alarm clock off and having a lie in.

But is doing nothing a good idea or will it just make it harder when term starts again.

Here’s Devon based Lisa Boorman, leader of Queen’s Online School, top tips on how to get the most out of the festive break.

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Sidmouth Scouts Selected for 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland

Two Sidmouth College students have been selected to represent Devon Scouts at the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Gdańsk, Poland.

Grace and Lucy completed a challenging selection weekend at Watcombe over half term and have earned a place in the UK contingent. The pair will join a unit of 36 Scouts from across the county and begin training together in preparation for the international...

City College Plymouth and West College Scotland Strengthen Defence Skills Collaboration

City College Plymouth and West College Scotland are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen collaboration in response to the UK Government’s Defence Industrial Strategy. This partnership will support the development of a skilled workforce for the defence sector and contribute to national priorities for technical excellence.

The agreement...

South Devon College encourage more engineering and manufacturing companies to take on apprentices

21-year-old Jack Faulkner says he spent his childhood taking electronic items apart and then not being able to put them back together again.

Fast forward a few years and Jack says he’s now working in the perfect place surrounded by electronics.

Jack is an engineering technician degree apprentice at Bay Photonics, a high-tech engineering company in Paignton. In his fourth year...

University Centre South Devon opens its own School of Counselling and inspires former students

A united passion for making a difference in people’s lives has brought together three University Centre South Devon graduates.

Dani Tabb, Hannah Garner and Monika Lewis, all met while they were studying the FdSc Psychology with Counselling Skills and the BSc Social and Therapeutic Interventions courses and decided to set up their own counselling service.

“Having worked closely...

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