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Sergeant Sally Kingdon and Teresa Berridge paid a special visit to Exeter Deaf Academy College students to talk about how to contact the police and hate crime. They explained you can call the police on 999 and 101 for non-emergencies, but you can also text the police on 999 and 67101 for non-emergencies. They also […]

Christmas has truly arrived at Exeter Deaf Academy with staff and students taking part in a range of fun activities to celebrate the festive season. One of the highlights was a concert held with Exeter Big Noise Chorus at Southernhay URC Church on Thursday 3rd December. The concert was all about making the festive season […]

This half term students have been making puppets in Forest School. The first step was to make a small picture of their design on clay. This was done so that the students would be able to learn the process involved with making puppets, designing in clay, creating the mould and filing this with latex. Now […]

This year, the Exeter Big Noise Chorus annual Christmas Concert, on Thursday 3rd December, will raise deaf awareness by teaching audience members to sign popular Christmas songs alongside their usual toe-tapping musical score. Big Noise Chorus believe everyone should be able to enjoy Christmas to the fullest and have taken this view with their forthcoming […]

For the third year Exeter Deaf Academy has been invited to decorate a Christmas tree in Princesshay shopping centre, Exeter. Students from School have been busy over the course of November creating a range of decorations on a Victorian theme. This included swaying Father Christmases, silhouettes of students made out of maps to demonstrate our […]

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, […]

We’re pleased to announce Exeter Deaf Academy has been nominated for Charity of the Year in this year’s Pride of Exeter Awards. Last year our BSL tutor, Matt Jenkins, won Teacher of the Year in the same awards. Our nomination was given in secret, but we would like to thank the person or people who […]

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 […]