BBC Springwatch presenter Maya Plass is the latest recruit to the Ecover Blue Mile team. Maya, who lives in the South Hams, has joined the Plymouth-based organisation as ambassador for the three-day Ecover Schools Blue Mile event taking place at the National Marine Aquarium on 17-19 June.
Maya, 35, was snapped up by BBC Springwatch when they spotted the marine work she was doing with...
Approximately 400 teams from across the South West will undertake the annual Ten Tors challenge on Dartmoor this weekend.
The teams of young people who are drawn from schools, colleges, cadet squadrons, scout and guide groups and independent organisations across the region, have been training hard for the challenge. They will be arriving today (Friday 10 May) ahead of the start of the...
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is campaigning to inform, educate and promote the installation of sprinkler systems in both domestic and non-domestic premises.
According to the fire service, there is clear evidence that sprinklers can be effective in rapidly controlling and stopping the spread of fires. Sprinklers play a positive role in protecting life, property and reduce...
A group of young-looking lumber jacks have been getting to grips with logging as they help design the playground of their dreams for Honicknowle’s Rothesay Gardens.
Youngsters at three schools will be building bridges, log stripping and helping to build log play equipment during a series of sessions this week with play contractors, Earthwrights.
Teachers in schools across the globe are turning to a new philosophy to help improve the behaviour and well-being of students.
Mindfulness, a form of meditation, has been shown to help with a wide range of mental health conditions and improve well-being in adults. However, few trials have evaluated its effectiveness in children.
Professor Willem Kuyken from the Mood Disorders...
The number of young people being accepted into their first choice of secondary school has increased this year, as thousands of primary pupils in Plymouth will today learn which school they will be going to this September.
Plymouth City Council confirmed that 95.36 per cent of young people received their first choice of school, 3.62 per cent their second and 0.77 per cent their third...
Staff and pupils at a Newton Abbot primary are beginning the New Year with a double celebration after education inspectors judged that every aspect of school life was good or better.
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary was judged satisfactory by education inspectors in 2009. But now every aspect of life at the 120-pupil school is good or better. That improvement has come at a time when school...
