Parents whose children are due to start Year 7 at secondary school or Year 10 at a Key Stage 4 institution in September 2016 have just a few days left to tell the Council which three schools they would like their child to attend.
The deadline for secondary school and key stage 4 institutions admission preferences is 31 October 2015 and Plymouth City Council is urging parents not to...
Teams of budding business leaders have been put through their paces in a competition created by the Plymouth Business School and Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at Plymouth University.
Pupils from secondary schools across Devon were challenged to prepare a business presentation, with six teams then taking part in a workshop at the University and talking about their project in front of...
Pupils at 12 schools across England are busy making the final preparations for a competition that could see them crowned as the country’s top young mathematicians and statisticians.
Schools from Devon to Lincolnshire and Kent to Merseyside are in the running to be named the champions of WinAtSchool 2015.
The online competition is organised by the International Centre for...
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?
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...
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...
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...
Schools in the South West are being invited to donate books to schools in rural parts of South Africa, as part of a competition to learn about farming in the country.
The 2015 Help a South African School competition asks children in years one through to 11 to learn about fruit farming and the difference it makes to the lives of families in South Africa, and to produce a collage of...
The number of young people being accepted into their first choice of secondary school has increased this year, as thousands of primary pupils in Plymouth will today find out which school they will be going to this September.
Plymouth City Council confirmed that 94.86 per cent of young people received their first choice of school, 3.78 per cent their second and 1.09 per cent their third...
Plymouth City Council is asking academies and non-maintained schools to follow its example by ensuring all employees are paid a living wage.
The Council has committed that all staff in Council maintained schools will be paid a minimum hourly rate that ensures they have enough to meet the basic cost of living.
The commitment to pay a living wage set nationally particularly helps...
