Education

A primary school teacher and Plymouth University graduate has created a new app designed to improve children’s reading skills through interactive gaming.

Fonics, created by Sophie Cooper, is designed for three to six-year-olds and uses games as a means to teach basic language skills.

She believes it can be a valuable resource for teachers and students, but also enable parents...

National Learn To Play Day is back for its fifth successive year on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th March 2016. It will be bigger and better, with more FREE taster lesson and more music venues, schools, shops, celebrities, musicians and local dignitaries than ever before across the UK.

Organised by Music for All, the charity of the UK musical instrument industry, in partnership with the...

Work will get underway this year on two new classrooms at Cann Bridge School on the Tor Bridge Site in Estover, to help cope with the increased demand for school places with pupils with Autisim.

The funding totalling £630,000 will come from the Council’s Capital Investment Programme.

Cann Bridge school was originally built to accommodate 72 pupils but currently has 83 (63 under...

Don’t leave it till the last minute to apply for a school place if your child is due to start primary school for the first time this year.

Families whose children are due to start at primary school for the first time or junior school (having completed Year 2 in an infant school) in September 2016 have just 12 days left to tell the Council which three schools are their top choices....