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Exeter MP supports biodiversity improvements in schools

Exeter MP, Steve Race, visited Bowhill Primary School on Friday 27th March 2026 to show his support for Little Green Change's Biodiversity in Schools Project, which provides free environmental education and biodiversity improvements to state-funded primary and secondary schools in Devon, Dorset...

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Five local courses to enhance your career in Plymouth

The Office for National Statistics has verified that UK employment has hit yet another record high in the first quarter of 2019. Simultaneously, just 4% of UK resident remain on the search for a job, which is the lowest unemployment rate since 1975. In fact, the South West has the lowest unemployment rates across the whole of the UK – meaning Plymouth residents are even less likely to be...

Why you should consider economics, and how to master it

It is one of the most important, yet most often misunderstood, industries out there, so let's break down the mystery of economics, and explain why you should study it

You might be forgiven for assuming that economics is simply the study of how to make money, but in fact, it is the study of how our society works. Our society runs on money, with all our goods and services depending on it...

Easter concert at Plympton Academy

Music students from Plympton Academy are putting on a musical extravaganza this Easter.

The theme of the concert, being held on Thursday April 4th in the schools Morpurgo Studios, is Festival, as it showcases different performers in a positive and energetic way.

The event is being organised by the Year 12 music class as part of their course, and will feature bands and choirs...

Plympton Academy welcomes overseas visitors

Staff and students at Plympton Academy welcomed some overseas guests into school recently. The USS Gravely, currently in Devonport Naval Base and their Chaplain, Lieutenant Michael Taulbee, brought 12 sailors to visit the school and work with the students. The ship is from Norfolk, Virginia and left the USA in December as part of a NATO deployment. The USS Gravely is named in honour of Samuel...

Plympton Academy swimmers win relay races

Youngsters from the Plympton Academy swim academy are celebrating after winning two events at the recent Plymouth Schools Gala. The event, organised by Devonport Royal Swimming Association, saw more than 300 students from Plymouth primary and secondary schools compete in relay races. Swimmers from the Plympton Academy swim academy won the 11-14 year olds mixed relay and 15-18 year olds relay....

Plympton Academy students learn about Lent

Students from Plympton Academy welcomed Reverend Andy Day from Ridgeway Methodist Church into school recently. The Minister was in to explain the meaning of Shrove Tuesday, Lent and Easter. The students had pancakes with him and thought about how they could challenge themselves as part of Lent. The students’ own suggestions included eating fewer sweets and spending less time on computer games...

Plympton Academy poetry competition

Students at Plympton Academy have been busy reading poetry and writing their own, as part of a school wide poetry competition. Everyone was first asked to read Charles Causley’s famous poem ‘Devonport’ and then to imagine how the story might continue, before putting pen to paper. “As all the poems were about the sea and travel we thought it would be apt for someone from the Naval Base to...

Staff at Plympton Academy celebrate World Book Day

Staff at Plympton Academy celebrated World Book Day this week by dressing up as their favourite literary characters and sharing the stories with their pupils. Jim Strachan, Head of Year 10, is photographed as Mad-Eye Moody from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Claire Worth, Year 7 pastoral mentor, who is dressed as Hermione Grainger. Other Plympton Academy staff dressed as their...

New battery recycling scheme launched at Plympton Academy

A new battery recycling scheme has been launched at Plympton Academy.

It’s hoped students, parents and staff will recycle their batteries at the school and not put them in the bin.

When batteries begin to rot away in landfill sites the chemicals leak into the ground, which can cause soil and water pollution. When chemicals contaminate soil and water, animals, humans and the...

Plympton Academy students study the stars

Students at Plympton Academy have been supporting the Campaign for Rural England’s (CPRE) light pollution survey.

Stephen Heighway (12), Lewis White and Ben Bacon who are both 13 years old, recorded the number of stars they could see in Orion, and the results were submitted to the British Astronomical Association in London.

Light pollution means many people can’t see the stars...

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