School Types: All LA Schools - LA Special Schools
Week of: 14 July 2025 - 20 July 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
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
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