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Ofsted Accreditation for Camp Cornwall Provider Porthpean Outdoor
11+ hour, 55+ min ago (171+ words) The headline for most families is financial. Now that Camp Cornwall holds Ofsted accreditation, parents can put childcare vouchers and tax-free childcare payments towards their bookings. Based on the south coast of Cornwall, Porthpean Outdoor runs activities for children aged…...
Spiral UK Featured in Enginuity Apprenticeship Film
5+ hour, 56+ min ago (333+ words) A national skills body went looking for some of the best apprenticeship training in the country, and one of the places it stopped was a factory in Helston. Spiral UK, the engineering and manufacturing business based in the town, has…...
Launceston College Year 7s Take On North Devon Residential
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (311+ words) Image: Google Street View Most school trips end with a coach full of tired pupils and a lost jumper or two. This one ended with marshmallows, a campfire and a load of Year 7s who had spent the week throwing themselves…...
Exeter University Partners With Cornwall College on St Austell A Levels
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (437+ words) Pupils in mid Cornwall who want to study A Levels closer to home are about to get a fresh option, and one of the South West's biggest universities has put its name behind it. A Levels are due to launch…...
Hall for Cornwall to Lead Music Education for Young People
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (511+ words) A child in a Cornish classroom picking up an instrument for the first time is about to have a new organisation standing behind them. Hall for Cornwall has been appointed by Arts Council England to lead the Music Hub for…...
Three South East Cornwall Schools Get Government Funding for Repairs
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (506+ words) Failing boilers, leaking roofs and dated wiring are exactly the sort of thing a new pot of government money is meant to fix. And three schools in South East Cornwall are in line for a share of it. Harrowbarrow Primary…...
Bodmin Jail Opens Its Cells for Home Education Days
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (192+ words) A real Victorian prison might not be the first place you'd picture for a school day, but Bodmin Jail Attraction is betting it beats the classroom. The attraction is running a two-day Home Education event on the 15th and 16th of June,…...
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Recruiting Control Operator at Tolvaddon
1+ week, 1+ day ago (360+ words) Picture a 3am call from someone trapped inside a burning building. Could you stay calm, work out where they are, mobilise the right crews and keep talking the caller through it until firefighters reach the door? That is the kind of…...
Saltash Pupils Decorate Lighthouse for St Luke's Guiding Lights Trail
1+ week, 3+ day ago (322+ words) Pupils at a Saltash school have just finished decorating a lighthouse sculpture that will cross the Tamar this summer. Look closely at the design and you'll find the name of a man the Town Council wanted to remember. Brunel Primary…...
Cornwall SEND services praised but waiting times too long, says Ofsted
1+ week, 6+ day ago (672+ words) Families across Cornwall have been waiting to hear how the county's services for children with special educational needs measure up. Now they know, and the verdict is mixed. Inspectors from Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have recognised both strengths…...