Plymouth City Council is asking academies and non-maintained schools to follow its example by ensuring all employees are paid a living wage.
The Council has committed that all staff in Council maintained schools will be paid a minimum hourly rate that ensures they have enough to meet the basic cost of living.
The commitment to pay a living wage set nationally particularly helps...
Labour have today launched plans to improve primary schools in Plymouth by capping class sizes, this follows a new report which shows that the number of infant pupils in large classes in Plymouth has jumped by 600% since the Conservatives took government.
In 2010 the Conservatives scrapped Labour’s policy to cap infant class sizes at 30 pupils. The proportion of class sizes bigger...
Two Plymouth primary schools are celebrating getting government recognition for their work with disadvantaged pupils.
Boringdon Primary school and High View School have both been congratulated by Schools Minister David laws after qualifying for the 2015 Pupil Premium Awards following key stage 2 results published last month.
Their results showed that they have made or continue...
Schools across Plymouth are being invited to take part in Plymouth’s Half Marathon Schools’ Challenge in 2015, to be staged alongside the popular South West running event on Sunday 19th April.
The 12 week programme will encourage pupils to complete the equivalent of a mile a week in the lead up to Plymouth’s Half Marathon. They will then complete their final mile on race day to make up...
Thousands of parents and children in Plymouth learned day whether they have been successful in receiving their first choice of infant and primary schools.
Plymouth City Council has confirmed that 89.42 per cent of city children received their first choice of school this year, a marginal decrease of 0.35 per cent on last year's figures.
As part of National Science and Engineering Week Year 9 pupils from schools in and around Plymouth had the chance to get hands on in the laboratory and see what it is like to be a scientist, when Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry opened up its research labs.
The SoCool for Science event took place at labs on the Tamar Science Park. Pupils met with...
Plymouth City Council is looking to protect school crossing patrols in the city from the impact of Government budget cuts by asking schools to take more responsibility for them.
The patrols are not under threat as the alarmist headline in today's Herald suggests.
The Council is facing a £65m shortfall over three years as Government funding continues to be reduced and demand for...
Schools in Plymouth have been issued with new guidance to help spot young people with eating disorders and support families coping with the condition.
Plymouth City Council recently distributed new guidance to help raise awareness of the issue of eating disorders and to detail what action teaching and support staff can take to help students.
Ofsted has published its first ever report reviewing education standards in the South West.
The Annual Report 2012/13 for the South West finds that the proportion of good or outstanding primary and secondary schools in the region has increased. As a result, over 48,000 more pupils now benefit from a good or outstanding education than was the case 12 months ago.
