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After great success at the National Deaf Schools Track and Field Day in summer, students have continued their success in the recent Devon Autumn Ability Games Competition in Barnstaple. Eleven students attended the Games, on Wednesday 11th November, and competed in cycling, rowing and archery. Our biggest success was in rowing where Molly won gold, […]

This year’s Children in Need was organised by School’s Student Council and was a huge success. This year’s theme was superheroes and many students took this in their stride dressing as Batman, Superman and even Pudsey himself. The Council had made posters which they put up around the Deaf Academy to tell everyone of the […]

A police Community Officer visited Exeter Deaf Academy on Monday 9th November to give students a special talk about staying safe on the internet. Topics covered included how to change your Facebook settings to maximum privacy, how your images and information appear on Google and the consequences that can happen from placing personal information on […]

As part of CN groups’ Horticulture qualification they have been learning about growing apples and have also been apple picking. On Wednesday 21st October they combined their work with apples with their Food Preparation unit and ran an ‘All Things Apple’ cake sale. There was a variety of products to buy which students had processed […]

Exeter Deaf Academy students who are training at Hair@theAcademy E2E (Education to Employment) have been making fantastic progress on their courses. Joel G and Benjamin are currently enrolled on the VTCT Level 2 Diploma in Women’s and Men’s Hairdressing. This qualification aims to give student’s the knowledge, understanding and skills to prepare for employment as […]

On 13th October Year 7 had the chance to get hands on with agriculture at Devon’s annual FarmWise event. The event was held at Westpoint Arena, Exeter. Our students joined hundreds more from across Devon to learn more about where their food comes from and the importance of farming in Devon. The day was split […]

This year we are doing expressive arts in Key Stage 3. We are learning; exploring film genre, making a magazine and drawing and painting portraits. After half-term, November 3rd, we are making a play with Paddleboat Theatre Company. In February we are performing a play at the Phoenix Theatre. In the summer term we will […]

At Exeter Deaf Academy we believe in experiential learning. As part of the Key Stage 4 science curriculum students learn about how energy and electricity is generated and how generators and turbines work. Staff decided what better way to learn about this than to see electricity production in action, so a trip to Hinkley Point […]

[https://youtu.be/UStZMDOq9s0,50%,300,right]Primary started a new topic on animation at the start of the new term. For this the students have been using the ‘I Can Animate’ app on the iPads. At the start it was all about showing the students the process of animation, having them build a car out of Lego and then getting them […]