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'St Gudula' stands by the River Swincombe on Dartmoor

Ancient Holy Well Forms Centrepiece for New Dartmoor Community Pageant

The spirit of a medieval saint will be evoked in a new community ritual for Dartmoor, which aims to reconnect people with water and the land. St Gudula’s Well in Ashburton, an ancient holy well, will be the focus of the ceremony, which will honour water as the source of all life, and also...

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Council committed to helping children improve their reading and writing

Plymouth City Council will now be working more closely with schools to help more 11 year olds to reach the standard of literacy they’ll need to be successful learners.

In May 2014 the Council's Cabinet set out 50 new pledges all aimed at making Plymouth a better place to live. One of those pledges was to increase the number of children leaving school with the ability to read and write...

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Do parents lack faith in the British education system?

Nearly a quarter of state school pupils in England and Wales, aged 11 – 16, have regular private tuition. Further findings from the Sutton Trust show there is almost a 20% increase on the figures from 2005.

So, is it just good parenting to get your child a tutor? Or does it represent a lack of faith in the British education system?

Many would claim the rise of the private...

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Don't miss the biggest first aid lesson ever

Almost 100 schools in the South West – including 16 in Devon – have signed up to St John Ambulance's Big First Aid Lesson, with less than a month to go until it is broadcast.

The free, one-hour, online first aid session ( www.sja.org.uk/bigfirstaidlesson ) hosted by television presenter Claudia Winkleman will be streamed into classrooms on Friday 12 June.

And St John...

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Ivybridge mum praises exchange programme

THE MOTHER who sent her children to France and Spain for six months respectively aged 13 and 12 said it was much harder for her to let them go and praised the benefits to their education and confidence.

Anna West from Ivybridge, Devon, sent her son Paddy to Vannes in France to live with a French family and their children and daughter India to Pamplona in Spain to do the same.

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Plymouth University climbs in world rankings

Plymouth University is now ranked inside the top 40 global modern universities according to the most comprehensive league table of its kind, released today.

In the Times Higher Education ‘100 Under 50’, Plymouth is placed at 37 – up five places from 2014 – and fourth in terms of UK institutions under the age of 50. The publication’s Editor-at-Large, Phil Baty, described it as a “...

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Skills Aid Plymouth students celebrate

The first group of young people from three city schools celebrated completing the Skills Aid Plymouth (SAP) course at an award ceremony yeseterday afternoo(17 April) in front of their parents, teachers and mentors and the business that have taken part in the project.

The SAP scheme, the first of its kind in Plymouth, is a joint project between the City Council and Plymouth’s Rotary...

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Nearly 90 per cent of children receive first choice of primary school

Thousands of Plymouth primary children will find out today which school they will be going to in September.

The latest figures show that 88.12 per cent of city children received their first choice of school this year. 5.96 per cent of children received their second choice and 2.08 per cent their third choice.

Just 3.84 per cent of children did not receive any of the schools...

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Pupils get the chance to be SoCool for Science

As part of British Science Week Year 9 pupils from 12 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 Plymouth Science Park. Pupils met with research students and...

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Exciting weekend of events at Plymouth Uni

Plymouth University’s world class facilities and place at the heart of the community are to be showcased to the public as never before.

From open-air cultural events to laboratory tours, exhibitions of student work to pioneering partnerships, the city centre campus will be thrown open for The Big Festival Weekend on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June.

Two days of events will aim to...

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Plymouth committed to creating schools for the future

As the City Council continues to drive forward growth in the city a huge amount of investment has been going on to make sure Plymouth’s schools are fit for the future.

Just under £53 million has now been invested in improving the quality of Plymouth’s schools to to keep up with the growing population, the investment in schools has not only been able to improve them, it has also created...

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