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Ridgeway School rowing success

A student from Ridgeway School has won a silver medal in the National Rowing Championships.

14 year old Phoebe Lansley was part of the Plymouth team who came second in the 2KM team race. Fellow student Tillie Buxton also competed at the event held in London.

“It really was a wakeup call saying to me, you are capable of doing something if you believe in yourself no matter how...

Ridgeway School hosts multi skills day

Ridgeway School hosted its annual Key Stage 1 Multi Skills Festival for primary schools across Plympton recently.

The event was hosted by 22 young leaders from The Leadership Academy at Ridgeway School. Teams from Boringdon, Chaddlewood, Glen Park, Plympton St Maurice, St Marys and Yealmpstone Farm all came along to take part in a number of different events and activities.

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Basketball competiton at Ridgeway School

Competition was fierce at a recent Plymouth School Sports Partnership primary basketball competition held at Ridgeway School.

Seven schools from across Plymouth played against each other in a round robin competition. Three points were awarded for a win, two for a draw and one for a loss. The event was refereed by young leaders from Ridgeway School.

“Our young referees were...

Ridgeway principal nominated for Splash competition

The principal of Ridgeway School in Plympton has been nominated for The Herald’s Splash competition.

Lisa Boorman now needs as many votes as possible before March 12 to join the competition.

Nominees who get enough votes will train with Tom Daley’s coach, Andy Banks and be in the Plymouth version of the successful ITV show, Splash. The contest will involve school teachers...

Star gazing at Ridgeway School

GCSE astronomy students from Ridgeway School took advantage of the dark winter evenings recently.

The Year 10 and 11 students stayed on at school for a star party. This is where they look at the stars and then complete their constellation drawing controlled assessment.

The controlled assessment requires them to draw three constellations and compare the brightness of the major...

Plympton pupils take part in International Safer Internet Day

Students from Ridgeway School have taken part in a day to promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology.

The International Safer Internet Day is celebrated in more than 100 countries and is in its thirteenth year. This year’s theme was ‘play your part for a better internet’.

Running up to the day students got involved in a number of activities to help to...

Plympton teachers set themselves a resilience challenge

Juggling, running a marathon, unicycling and competing in the world’s biggest obstacle course, are just some of the challenges teachers and staff at a Plympton school have set themselves this year,

The adventurous group from Ridgeway School want to inspire their students to be resilient and so have decided to lead from the front.

The idea for the resilience challenge started...

Ridgeway School Ofsted: It's officially good to be there!

STAFF and students have started 2016 on a high after Ofsted inspectors commended Ridgeway School’s continuing improvement.

Ridgeway School has been awarded a ‘Good’ by the Government education watchdog, Ofsted in a report published today.

Inspectors have praised the new principal of the Plympton academy for providing 'dynamic leadership'.

The academy has also...

Support needed for astro pitch planning application

Plympton residents are being urged by a local school to support their planning application for a 3G football pitch.

Ridgeway School on Moorland Road has submitted its planning proposal for the state of the art astro pitch. There now follows a period where the general public can comment on the application.

At a recent public consultation there was a very positive response to the...

Ridgeway School calls on local school children to design logo

Ridgeway School in Plympton is calling on the talents of local school children to design its new logo.

From September 2016 the Moorland Road school will be known as Plympton Academy and the school will have a new uniform and logo to reflect this.

Lisa Boorman, principal at the school said; “We need a logo that reflects our new name and gives our school a sense of place....

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