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Ambitious plans to transform education in Somerset
Ambitious plans to transform education and drive improvements in Somerset schools have been unveiled. Somerset County Council’s new five-year education strategy was shared with professionals from across schools, local authorities, Ofsted and the Department for Education at the Somerset Education for Life event, held at Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton yesterday (21 March) The […]
Somerset County Council gets to work on play at packed Bridgwater conference
A conference exploring the way different environments can help children play has been hosted in Bridgwater, bringing together teachers, childminders, and education professionals specialising in children’s early years. Hosted by Somerset County Council’s Early Years team, the ‘Environments – Make a Difference’ conference took place at Canalside Conference Centre and attracted 140 professionals from across […]
Know your Numbers – Heart Health Day
Following on from the successful ‘Know Your Numbers’ Week in September (5-11 September), Yeovil Library will be hosting encouraging residents to ‘know their numbers’ and will be running a Heart Health Day in their Wellbeing Zone. The event, which will be held on Tuesday December 13from 9.30am to 12.30pm, will encourage the public to check […]
Yeovil Literary Festival – inspiring artists and authors for 10 years
The public will be spoilt for choice this year at the Yeovil Literary Festival with over fifty well-known literary figures, comedians, celebrities, and exciting new writers to choose from. Yeovil Literary Festival takes place between Thursday 20 October to Monday 24th October, with events at The Octagon Theatre, Westlands Entertainment Venue and Yeovil Library. The […]
Wells Cathedral service to celebrate Lord Lieutenant
Wells Cathedral is to host a special service to give thanks for and celebrate the work of Somerset’s Lord-Lieutenant Annie Maw CVO, who retires at the end of October. To mark the occasion, people are being invited to Evensong in the Cathedral Nave on October 9th at 3pm. Today the Dean of Wells, the Very […]
‘Walk for a Life’ to highlight suicide prevention in Somerset
Suicide can affect anybody, and there isn’t a community in Somerset which hasn’t been touched. Somerset County Council, together with partners, are helping to raise awareness of suicide at a Walk For A Life’ event taking place Saturday 8 October. Walk For A Life’ will start at Stragglers Coffee House at Somerset County Cricket Ground at […]
Insight and collaboration at Somerset Climate Business Summit 2022
More than 60 local businesses joined the Somerset Business Climate Summit 2022 held at Queens College in Taunton on Wednesday 21 September. The event opened with a surprise flash mob choir performance from Year 4 & 5 students from Queen’s College, who performed an inspiring and poignant rendition of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’. […]
Local author will charm guests at Yeovil Library
Somerset author, Caroline Newark will be giving a talk, “A Murder in the West Country – Love and Loss in the War of the Roses”, at Yeovil Library this Thursday (22 September). The event will take place at the King George Street library from 10.30 until 11.30 am and will focus on Caroline’s latest book: […]
Her Majesty The Queen: Somerset County Council update
Funeral The state funeral of Her Majesty The Queen, Elizabeth ll, will take place on Monday 19 September at Westminster Abbey at 11am. It will be a day of National Mourning and a Bank Holiday. The service will be televised. Whilst critical Somerset County Council services such as social care will continue, most buildings and […]
Sparks fly this summer at Somerset Libraries
Somerset libraries are calling for children to sign up to read six books this summer as part of Gadgeteers, Summer Reading Challenge 2022. Nearly 7,000 children have already signed up to the Summer Reading Challenge, which runs across all Somerset libraries, asks 4–11-year-olds to borrow and read any six library books over the summer. The […]
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