AROUND THE TOWN
THE Royal Navy is now an official employment partner with South Devon University Technical College in Newton Abbot, an arrangement that includes special challenge projects and work experience opportunities to guarantee that students are prepared for placements when they complete Year 13. The ‘Senior Service’ joins a host of regional employers shaping the UTC curriculum including Centrax, South West Water, Teignbridge Council, Galliford Try, Linden Homes, Water Aid and the environment agency. RN Captain David Joyce is
driven miniature drag racing F1 vehicles using 3D design software and a special track in the college challenge area for the races. In tandem each team had to create a business plan and budget and raise
pictured with UTC principal Ian Crews and students at the charter launch last November. South West schools joined
the regional finals of a Formula One car building challenge at the UTC in January. Students from 11-19 were charged with designing, constructing and racing the fastest air compressed cylinder
sponsorship. Regional winners were Colyton Grammar School.
The same month Lord Baker of Dorking – formerly Kenneth Baker, a minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Government and a founder of university technical colleges – was a special guest of the UTC. In a two-hour stop- over he saw a post-16 ready- for-work day involving 15 local and national employers.
ENGLISH Teachers at Newton Abbot College adopted a murder-mystery approach through characters of the popular board game Cluedo to help Year 11 students with article writing techniques for GCSE exams. Students were charged with solving the murder by watching video testimonies, sifting the evidence and writing a newspaper report. Pictured are teachers Alice Manhire (Col Mustard), Hannah Le Couilliard (Prof Plum), Rebecca Knibb (Rev Green), Gareth Davies (Mr Scarlet), Danielle Chambers (Mrs Peacock) and Lucie Clarke (Mrs White).
PURPLE was the featured colour for a celebration of International Women’s Day at Newton Abbot’s customarily red-based fire station at Balls Corner in March. Lady recruits Poppy Rothwell (left) and Laura Hutchings are pictured with six-year-old Heidi Long and her friend Lily who were told about the tasks they could face as members of a key emergency service.
NEWTON Abbot Court Leet Portreeve Janet Parrott, 70, a ‘foot soldier’ for the Conservative Party and its South West deputy chairman of membership and finance, received an MBE in the New Year Honours List for her voluntary political service.
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DISTRICT councillor and retired building project manager Reg Winsor has become a ‘pothole paramedic’, taking on the challenge of single-handedly fixing more than 200 of those dangerous banes for motorists in Teignbridge using his own tarmac and at his own expense. If needed for a pothole fix-up job, he can be emailed at
regiwins@gmail.com.
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