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Over the Easter break, our TA Sarah and her 14 year old daughter Meghan worked their socks off to inject colour and light into our school corridor and common room. Their work included painting lots of woodwork, creating bright new multi-coloured lockers, and crafting beautiful quotes for the windows.  Until we move into our new […]

We had a busy day at the Exeter Deaf Academy stand at City Lit Deaf Day 2018! Assistant Principal Mark Stocks and OT Sarah Ankers attended, and met lots people at our stand including former students Rebecca Hunt and Alex Miller. Alex is now studying art at college and volunteering. Former student Ahmed Ali also […]

On 8 March we celebrate International Women’s Day around the world! Here at the Deaf Academy, we’re also celebrating deaf women who inspire us today. Here’s a list of 5 deaf women we admire – there are so many inspirational deaf women we could name, so let us know in our Facebook comments who you are celebrating today. […]

We’re incredibly proud of all our students for their performances at our recent Exeter Phoenix show. Together with PaddleBoat Theatre Company, they have been working on a secret play over the past week, which staff and parents were finally able to watch this afternoon! The play was fully acted in BSL by our students, and interpreted […]

On 6 February some of our School students were up bright and early to travel up to Derby’s Powerleague Soccerdrome for the National Deaf Schools 5-a-side competition. Our boys team (Alex, Matthew, Jonathan and Tom) made the semi-finals playing as a 4-a-side team, and Alex was the highest goal scorer of the competition with 6 […]

During the first weekend of February the National Deaf Children’s Society welcomed the new Young People’s Advisory Board to their first residential weekend. The aim of the board is to empower Deaf young people to influence and challenge for change. Our secondary school student Molly is part of the group and travelled up to London to spend […]

On Wednesday 7 February, Carmen Croxall from The Prop Factory came to deliver a talk to our students. The Prop Factory is an Exeter-based prop hire company, which designs and makes its own props and then rents them out for a range of uses, from weddings to film sets. Carmen came to talk to School and College students […]

On 27-28 January we hosted our first Family Sign Weekend of 2018. These sessions are a fantastic opportunity for families, friends and professionals to learn about communicating with Deaf children. The weekend was run by Deaf BSL teacher Nikki, along with School teacher Karma. Nikki and Karma taught the group essential communication tools, tips and […]

On Tuesday 6 February the final demolition was carried out at the Rolle College site in Exmouth, where we are building our new Academy. It won’t be long before our building crew start construction of our new home! This is last building to be demolished which will make way for the new student residential accommodation […]