News
Dec 6, 2018
Students Campaign for Equality at Devon County Council Chambers
Today members of our Student Council visited Devon County Council Chambers to present their campaign for BSL interpretation on BBC Spotlight and ITV News West Country, in order to make important TV news broadcasts accessible to all deaf people. The students explained why delayed and often misspelled subtitles are not always helpful, especially when English is not the first language […]
Nov 30, 2018
Heidi’s Hairdressing Training
Hair @The Academy is a training salon housed here at Exeter Deaf Academy, which offers hair and beauty qualifications and traineeships to young people. This year, 18-year-old deaf college student Heidi has been coming to the salon to build up her confidence and learn new hairdressing skills. Hair @The Academy founder Mary says: ‘We are […]
Nov 27, 2018
Princesshay Annual Christmas Tree competition
Have you ever seen a more colourful Christmas tree? Congratulations to Deaf Instructor Nikki James and her group of students who won the RUNNER UP prize in the Princesshay Exeter Charity Christmas Tree awards! Decorating our charity Christmas tree is an annual tradition we look forward to each year! The Deaf Academy Christmas tree is one of […]
Nov 16, 2018
Elliott’s Building Up His Work Experience!
College student Elliott has started a weekly work experience placement with our Maintenance Team. Today, he has been helping Paul and Wayne with the playground construction works. So far, Elliott has learnt important skills in Health & Safety, Building Site Etiquette, Team Working and Communicating Signals. Construction work is a physical outdoor job but Elliott […]
Oct 27, 2018
Helping Hands
Our Facilities Manager, Sophie has been working her socks off today with volunteers from Michelmores Solicitors. Sophie says: “Saturday was all about volunteering and helping hands Our fabulous volunteers, Helen Bray, Becca Coulson and Laura Escott from Michelmores have made the college garden ‘light up’ by planting lots of bulbs ready to spring into bloom next year. They […]
Oct 25, 2018
Extreme Imagination at Exeter RAMM
Today, our BSL Teacher Matt with Interpreter Clare led a brilliant BSL storytelling workshop at Exeter RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum). It was an event open to all as part of Extreme Imagination, Exeter’s festival of writing and stories. Leia, age 6 was one of the children who went to the workshop. She said, “I really […]
Sep 20, 2018
Bell Boats at Exeter Quay
Some of our students visited Exeter Quay this week, with the Residential team’s Sports Club. Our Residential students take part in lots of activites and clubs in their free time, and Sports Club is always a popular choice! As well as the usual sports like football and swimming, students get to try out lots of new […]
Sep 19, 2018
Fingerspelling With BBC Spotlight
Breaking down communication barriers between deaf and hearing people is at the heart of our vision for our New Deaf Academy in Exmouth. So, to mark the third day of Exmouth Deaf Awareness Week, our students headed to Exmouth town centre to offer fingerspelling and BSL lessons to shoppers and passersby. Our vision is to […]
Sep 10, 2018
Gavin’s Skydive For The New Deaf Academy
Congratulations to Academy Learning Leader Gavin, who did his skydive to raise money for us – and raised an amazing £542.50! On 25 July Gavin headed to Dunkeswell Airfield near Honiton bright and early, to prepare for his jump. He would be jumping 15,000 feet – the highest possible skydive without oxygen – to raise […]