Yearly Communication Archives: 2025
#MyBiosphere Photo Competition – A Creative Holiday Activity for Students!
The North Devon UNESCO Biosphere, in partnership with Exeter Science Centre, has launched the #MyBiosphere Photo Competition, open to everyone living or working within the Biosphere area. We’re inviting entries that respond to the question: “What does the North Devon UNESCO Biosphere mean to you?” Students can take a photo of anything that reflects their Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
Date for your diary! StoryFest 2025
Libraries Unlimited is partnering with Aardman to host StoryFest, a week-long reading festival, in Devon and Torbay during October half-term. We’d love it if you were able to promote this to your parents when the new school year starts! There will be live events featuring the Vegetable Orchestra, Shaun Dares Ewe, and special appearances by Shaun Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
Free school meals opt-out auto-award – information sessions
Devon County Council is working on a project to ensure all children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM) receive them, without families needing to apply. This also helps schools access more Pupil Premium funding. Once we’ve identified eligible pupils, we’ll let you know. We’re asking schools to contact families using a provided letter template that Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
Historic Commitment to Primary School Libraries Announced by Chancellor London, July 10, 2025
📚✨ Exciting News! ✨📚 Yesterday evening, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Rachel Reeves, committed to ensuring every primary school in the country will have a library by the end of this Parliament! 🎉 This marks a huge milestone for the Libraries for Primaries campaign, co-founded with Penguin in 2021. We believe Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
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Autism and Us – Autumn term 2025
Support for parents and carers of primary or secondary aged children (5-16), who are either on the neurodiversity assessment waiting list or have received a diagnosis of autism. Children must be resident within the DCC (Devon County Council) footprint. Our ‘Autism & Us’ programme and associated themed and topic based workshops have now been adopted Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
Parents Childcare Survey 2025
Every year we send out a Parent’s Childcare Survey to parents living in Devon to find out information about their use of childcare. If you are a parent of a child or young person we’d really appreciate if you could complete this. We’d also appreciate if you could also share it with the families attending Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
Approved: Proposal to increase places at Ilfracombe C of E Junior School’s Resource Base
Following consultation, the Governing Body of Ilfracombe C of E Junior School has now considered the outcome of the consultation and has approved the proposal to increase the number of registered places in their SEMH Resource Base from 8 to 10 with effect from September 2025. For background information, please see: Ilfracombe Church of England Continue reading →
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14 July 2025Purpose
Climate action plans for schools survey
Devon County Council are surveying all schools and education settings in Devon to find out about awareness around the need to write a Climate Action Plan (CAP) for your school this year. This is following the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy, requiring all schools to have a plan in place, and a Continue reading →
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7 July 2025Purpose
Preparing for adulthood webinar – Money Management
Budgeting, saving and planning advice for young people preparing for adulthood The next session in our preparing for adulthood series takes place on Tuesday 8 July. We’d appreciate any help sharing the details of this with KS4 aged learners and their families. This session is all about money management, including practical advice on budgeting, saving, Continue reading →
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1 July 2025Purpose
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The Grove School, Totnes
The Governing Body of The Grove School, following consultation, has approved the proposal to extend the age range of the school from 4-11 to 3-11 years of age from September 2025. For background information, please see: The Grove School, Totnes: Proposal to change the age range – Have your say
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1 July 2025Purpose
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