SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Serving up the Great Yeovil Menu!
Posted: 19th June 2015
A GROUP of top hospitality students has launched the new high-tech Yeovil College training kitchens with a Great Yeovil Menu lunch - served to invited VIPs and local business leaders. The new kitchens offer high quality training stations for 11 students on the college’s professional cookery courses. They have been specifically designed to incorporate multimedia…
SCHOOLS: Budding authors to get work published
Posted: 17th June 2015
SWANMEAD Community School in Ilminster has congratulated Year Five pupils Molly Conway and Lara Summerscales on their creative writing skills. The two girls submitted their mini-sagas as part of a national writing competition called Once Upon a Time. Following the hundreds of entries from all over the country, both Molly and Lara received letters to tell them that their…
SCHOOLS: New classroom for South Petherton Juniors
Posted: 16th June 2015
WORK to bring a brand new classroom to staff and pupils at South Petherton Junior School will begin this week. Somerset County Council is building a single-storey extension at the school, to include an additional classroom, taking the capacity of the school to 150 pupil places. Regulation Committee members gave the green light for the £317,000 project in April 2015. Once…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Invitation for all former Westfield students
Posted: 8th June 2015
WESTFIELD Academy in Yeovil is to hold a special Open Event next month in order to commemorate the school’s 170th anniversary. Westfield can trace its roots back to 1845. Now former students of Yeovil School, Yeovil High School for Girls, Summerleaze Park and Westfield Community School are invited to an Open Event at the school on Thursday, July 9, 2015, at 7pm. The…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Holyrood Sixth-Formers get together before exams
Posted: 4th June 2015
SIXTH-FORM students at Holyrood Academy in Chard held a leaving get-together at Hornsbury Mill ahead of their crucial exams. The largest number ever from Holyrood’s Sixth Form enjoyed their farewell lunch and presentations before their final exams and subsequent departures for pastures new. Students were awarded with a Tutor Statement to include in their CVs as well as…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Centre for Social Justice director returns to Westfield Academy
Posted: 25th May 2015
FORMER Westfield Academy student, Christian Guy, who is now the director of the Centre for Social Justice, went back to the school in Yeovil to talk about his inspiring career path. In the wake of the recent fascinating General Election, Westfield was really pleased to welcome back one of their Old Boys, who has an influential role at the heart of the political system…
SCHOOL AND COLLEGES: Springwatch comes to Bruton
Posted: 23rd May 2015
STUDENTS at Bruton School for Girls can now take part in their very own Springwatch - thanks to the generosity of the school’s Parent Staff Association. The old railway cutting which runs through the school’s site in Sunny Hill in Bruton has been used as a nature area for some time but now it has been converted so that it is fully Wi-Fi enabled, has a tented classroom…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Preston says goodbye to Pat
Posted: 22nd May 2015
PRESTON School in Yeovil has said goodbye to a long-standing member of staff who has retired. Pat Quinton has dedicated nearly 30 years of her time to working at the school in various different roles including science technician, lunchtime supervisor and exam invigilator. A school spokesman said: “Everyone in our school community would like to thank Pat for her support…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Official opening for fabulous new autism base at Preston School
Posted: 21st May 2015
A NEW specialist unit at Preston School in Yeovil will be of huge benefit to students with autism and help them to thrive and shine as young people. A lot of improvements have been made over the past few years into autism in raising awareness and providing crucial support for those children with the disorder. But the introduction of specialist Autistic Spectrum Disorder…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Silver medal for Yeovil team
Posted: 20th May 2015
THE men’s football team at Yeovil College has won a silver medal at the Association of Colleges championships following triumph in the regional league. The national Association of Colleges (AOC) championships represent the highlight of the sporting calendar for many colleges and sixth forms. The event brings together 1,800 elite student sportsmen and women from across…
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