Yearly Communication Archives: 2025
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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EXPIRED 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
EXPIRED 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
EXPIRED Consultation: Holsworthy C of E Primary School – proposal to extend the age range
Holsworthy Church of England Primary School’s Governing Body is consulting on a proposal to extend the age range of the school from 3-11 to 0-11 years of age. If approved, the legal age range of the school would change to 0-11 from 1 August 2025 to enable the transfer of the former Children’s Centre building Continue reading →
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24 June 2025Purpose
Pupils in Okehampton to lead a Roundtable Discussion in Westminster
Eight students from Okehampton College* in Devon will travel to London for a special parliamentary event in July. Along with pupils from two schools in Cumbria, they will be leading a Roundtable Discussion on matters of religion and belief. The event will be held in the House of Lords and will be attended by parliamentarians, Continue reading →
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20 June 2025Purpose
EXPIRED Consultation: Marpool Primary School – proposal to extend the age range
Marpool Primary School Cornerstone Academy Trust is consulting on extending the age range of Marpool Primary School from 3-11 to 0-11 years of age. The former children’s centre building, that is adjacent to the school, has been offered by Devon County Council to Cornerstone Academy Trust to enable a dedicated nursery for 0, 1 and Continue reading →
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20 June 2025Purpose
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