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Study Smarter at Home: Practical Tips for Online Lessons

Home can be a calm, effective classroom with a few simple tweaks. This guide shares practical tips that parents and students can use with confidence. We’ll cover space, routines, and study habits that make learning stick. It’s written with busy families in mind. Keep it simple, keep it steady,...

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Successful pilot of Maths and English for Employment Course

Employment programmes should involve more than just job searching but focus more on improving potential employees’ skills, according to speakers at a recent “Association of Employment and Learning Providers” National Conference.

In particular, evidence shows that low English and Maths skills really hamper the likelihood of a person finding the kind of job they really want, succeeding...

More Than Just School!

Local training and education providers are running an event in Plymouth’s City Centre on Saturday 19 July to provide free impartial advice and guidance to young people and their parents.

City College Plymouth, UTC Plymouth, Achievement Training and Plymouth College of Art are joining forces to help spread the word that ‘there’s more to life than school’. The event has been organised in...

Schoolchildren train as coaches to offer helping hand to younger pupils

A primary school headteacher says an innovative form of coaching is transforming the self-confidence of pupils who are shy or under-achieving. The coaching programme at Woodlands Park Primary School in Ivybridge, Devon is the brainchild of the senior teaching assistant and Liz Scott Coaching and Training. Final year pupils are trained as coaches so that they can work with younger children at...

Students create Burrator Alive with History book

City College Plymouth’s, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students have been creating a book as part of an innovative social enterprise project.

‘Burrator Alive with History’, which launched on Wednesday 2 July, is a 60-page booklet created by the students. Together with their lecturer, Sarah Waters, they have researched, illustrated and taken photographs of sites found...

Interactive learning day proves a success

A visit to Flashpoint - a life skills centre based in Cornwall - proved an enjoyable and educational day for a group from Plymouth with learning disabilities. Flashpoint Lifeskills Centre is an interactive learning centre providing courses dedicated to accident and injury prevention, crime and disorder reduction as well as health and safety messages.

The day was set up by Dave Evans...

Devon primary school children graduate

Primary school children from across the county were invited to Plymouth University last week as part of a special graduation ceremony to celebrate their learning achievements.

Around 70 students from the Devon Children’s University received their ‘degree’ certificates from Professor Iain Stewart after completing their out-of-school programmes.

Iain, Chancellor of the Devon...

City College Plymouth honours its students

City College Plymouth hosted its Student of the Year event, to celebrate some of the amazing achievements of its students, on Monday 23 June.

The Student of the Year event publically recognises and rewards students who are making a positive contribution to their course, the College or the local community, and celebrates this with their course tutors, family and friends.

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Taking the classroom to the beach

Teachers from across the South West of England have been getting hands-on Teach on the Beach learning in a brand new initiative supported by the Ecover Blue Mile in partnership with Plymouth University-based Natural Connections.

The Teach on the Beach sessions are taking place at locations in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Bristol throughout this summer and are delivered by a number of...

Prospective students invited UTC Plymouth open day

As the end of the first academic year nears at one of Plymouth’s newest schools, students entering years 10 or 12 in September are invited to attend UTC Plymouth’s open evening this week to find out what the college could offer them next year.

On Wednesday 25th June the college will open its doors to prospective students who are moving into year 10 or 12 in September. Starting at 5:...

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New approach to writing changes policy and practice

A decade of research into the development of writing in school-aged children at the University of Exeter has shaped classroom practice in the teaching of writing and informed national and international policy.

This has resulted in measurable improvements to children’s writing abilities and has changed ways of thinking about writing.

The research is being celebrated by the...

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