Education

Staff and students at Plympton Academy are celebrating receiving an award from the Woodland Trust. The environmental charity has recognised the school’s commitment to green issues by presenting them with a Bronze Award as a Green Tree School. Over the past two years, students have been involved in a number of projects including tree planting, making bat, bird and bug boxes, planting...

A group of enterprising students from Plympton Academy are learning business skills as part of the Tenner Challenge.

Selected students from Year 7 and 8 have been given a ten pound note which they can use to start a mini business to generate a profit.

The Tenner Challenge is a charity raising awareness of young enterprise and they have donated the ten pound notes to the school...

Students at Brook Green Centre for Learning, Plymouth, will soon be taught about money and personal finance, after it was announced that the ‘Outstanding’ Special School for ages 11 – 16, has been chosen to join the Centre of Excellence programme in financial education.

The news comes as part of a ground-breaking partnership between the UK’s leading financial education charity, Young...

Students and staff from Plympton Academy have raised £950 for Comic Relief when they took part in Red Nose Day.

Students donated £1 to wear non-uniform for the day and the cakes, made by students, parents and staff, sold out in record time! The highlight of the day for many students and staff was the highly anticipated result of the ‘gunge a teacher’ vote.

For the past two...