Devon Hospitals' Short Stay School
@devonhospsch.bsky.social
Our school provides education for children in hospital in Exeter and Barnstaple alongside an outreach service - https://devonhospitalschool.org.uk
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🎭 Little Terror at Exeter Library 🗣️
We're so excited for the English Touring Opera's Little Terror later this month! Here's a few snaps from rehearsals. Enjoy an adventure-filled family opera, made with and for Learning Disabled audiences!
📅 Sun Nov 23 - 3-4pm
📍 Exeter Library
We're so excited for the English Touring Opera's Little Terror later this month! Here's a few snaps from rehearsals. Enjoy an adventure-filled family opera, made with and for Learning Disabled audiences!
📅 Sun Nov 23 - 3-4pm
📍 Exeter Library
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🎭 Little Terror at Exeter Library 🗣️
We're so excited for the English Touring Opera's Little Terror later this month! Here's a few snaps from rehearsals. Enjoy an adventure-filled family opera, made with and for Learning Disabled audiences!
📅 Sun Nov 23 - 3-4pm
📍 Exeter Library
We're so excited for the English Touring Opera's Little Terror later this month! Here's a few snaps from rehearsals. Enjoy an adventure-filled family opera, made with and for Learning Disabled audiences!
📅 Sun Nov 23 - 3-4pm
📍 Exeter Library
Thank you @readforgood.bsky.social for another amazing book delivery to our Bramble Ward school room - so many good choices, our young people will be spoilt for choice!
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Thank you @readforgood.bsky.social for another amazing book delivery to our Bramble Ward school room - so many good choices, our young people will be spoilt for choice!
Welcome back from half term to all of our young people and their families 🤩
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Welcome back from half term to all of our young people and their families 🤩
Lovely. We know just how magical @readforgood.bsky.social storytellers are - thank you!
Our short film The Magic of Stories shows how our Storytellers bring the joy of books to seriously ill children in hospital. It captures the magic of stories, even in the most challenging times.
Link in bio! Thanks @mediatrust.bsky.social Royal Manchester Children's Hospital & The Mercers' Company
Link in bio! Thanks @mediatrust.bsky.social Royal Manchester Children's Hospital & The Mercers' Company
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Lovely. We know just how magical @readforgood.bsky.social storytellers are - thank you!
We had some special visitors to our Bramble Ward schoolroom this week as part of Play in Healthcare Week - not a new uniform we are thinking of adopting any time soon!
October 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We had some special visitors to our Bramble Ward schoolroom this week as part of Play in Healthcare Week - not a new uniform we are thinking of adopting any time soon!
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🚨 All of the ticketed events for StoryFest have ALREADY sold out!
But don’t worry — there’s still loads of FREE drop-in fun happening this Oct Half Term👇
✨ Interactive AR Trail (from 18 Oct)
✨ Crafty family drop-in session
✨ Wallace & Gromit Movie Marathon
More info: linktr.ee/exeterlibr...
But don’t worry — there’s still loads of FREE drop-in fun happening this Oct Half Term👇
✨ Interactive AR Trail (from 18 Oct)
✨ Crafty family drop-in session
✨ Wallace & Gromit Movie Marathon
More info: linktr.ee/exeterlibr...
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨 All of the ticketed events for StoryFest have ALREADY sold out!
But don’t worry — there’s still loads of FREE drop-in fun happening this Oct Half Term👇
✨ Interactive AR Trail (from 18 Oct)
✨ Crafty family drop-in session
✨ Wallace & Gromit Movie Marathon
More info: linktr.ee/exeterlibr...
But don’t worry — there’s still loads of FREE drop-in fun happening this Oct Half Term👇
✨ Interactive AR Trail (from 18 Oct)
✨ Crafty family drop-in session
✨ Wallace & Gromit Movie Marathon
More info: linktr.ee/exeterlibr...
A special visitor to our Outreach Centre today on #WorldMentalHealthDay to help us enjoy more time outside - welcome, Welly!
October 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A special visitor to our Outreach Centre today on #WorldMentalHealthDay to help us enjoy more time outside - welcome, Welly!
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Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
Just a flavour of some of the brilliant curriculum work in our classroom on Bramble Ward this morning
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Just a flavour of some of the brilliant curriculum work in our classroom on Bramble Ward this morning
Yes please to joining you!
24.10.25 Live author event!
Join Lisa Williamson as she shares her new book, Selfie Queen, the latest in the brilliant Bigg School series, which tells the stories of different children in Year 7 navigating the ups and downs of growing up. @guppybooks
readforgood.org/lisa-william...
Join Lisa Williamson as she shares her new book, Selfie Queen, the latest in the brilliant Bigg School series, which tells the stories of different children in Year 7 navigating the ups and downs of growing up. @guppybooks
readforgood.org/lisa-william...
Lisa Williamson Live Online Event: Friday 24 October 2025 - Read for Good
Join Read for Good's free virtual author event with Lisa Williamson as she shares her new book, Selfie Queen, on Friday 24 October 2025 at 10am.
readforgood.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Yes please to joining you!
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📣 Workshop: Supporting a Child with ADHD
Parents & carers - join this friendly, practical online workshop from FACE Family Advice to gain tools, strategies & confidence to support children with ADHD at home & school.
👉 Book via facefamilyadvice.co.uk
#ADHDSupport #ParentWorkshop #TorlandsCommunity
Parents & carers - join this friendly, practical online workshop from FACE Family Advice to gain tools, strategies & confidence to support children with ADHD at home & school.
👉 Book via facefamilyadvice.co.uk
#ADHDSupport #ParentWorkshop #TorlandsCommunity
October 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣 Workshop: Supporting a Child with ADHD
Parents & carers - join this friendly, practical online workshop from FACE Family Advice to gain tools, strategies & confidence to support children with ADHD at home & school.
👉 Book via facefamilyadvice.co.uk
#ADHDSupport #ParentWorkshop #TorlandsCommunity
Parents & carers - join this friendly, practical online workshop from FACE Family Advice to gain tools, strategies & confidence to support children with ADHD at home & school.
👉 Book via facefamilyadvice.co.uk
#ADHDSupport #ParentWorkshop #TorlandsCommunity
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🐑 Shawn the Sheep + Wallace & Gromit are coming to Exeter Library! 🧍♂️🐕
This Oct half term there's going to be a week of family fun including:
- Live with Shaun the Sheep 25th
- Wallace & Gromit film marathon 26th
- Creative writing kids 27th
- Aardman clay & animation workshops 29th
+ more!
This Oct half term there's going to be a week of family fun including:
- Live with Shaun the Sheep 25th
- Wallace & Gromit film marathon 26th
- Creative writing kids 27th
- Aardman clay & animation workshops 29th
+ more!
October 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🐑 Shawn the Sheep + Wallace & Gromit are coming to Exeter Library! 🧍♂️🐕
This Oct half term there's going to be a week of family fun including:
- Live with Shaun the Sheep 25th
- Wallace & Gromit film marathon 26th
- Creative writing kids 27th
- Aardman clay & animation workshops 29th
+ more!
This Oct half term there's going to be a week of family fun including:
- Live with Shaun the Sheep 25th
- Wallace & Gromit film marathon 26th
- Creative writing kids 27th
- Aardman clay & animation workshops 29th
+ more!
Our amazing storyteller from @readforgood.bsky.social had to contend with a closed M5 yesterday but he still managed to create some fantastic tales with the young people on Bramble Ward at RDUH Exeter - thank you, Michael!
October 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our amazing storyteller from @readforgood.bsky.social had to contend with a closed M5 yesterday but he still managed to create some fantastic tales with the young people on Bramble Ward at RDUH Exeter - thank you, Michael!
We are very short on space at out city centre Outreach Centre but Project Pond is now nearly complete - just waiting for the frogs to find us now...
September 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We are very short on space at out city centre Outreach Centre but Project Pond is now nearly complete - just waiting for the frogs to find us now...
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@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @theprsd.bsky.social , @mrjohnharvey.bsky.social @literatureworks.bsky.social @exeterviews.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This month we are focusing on the joy of learning languages at DHSSS 🌍 - have a read of our updates below!
September 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This month we are focusing on the joy of learning languages at DHSSS 🌍 - have a read of our updates below!
What better way to start September than with a delivery of brand new books - thank you @readforgood.bsky.social for this fab-u-lous selection!
September 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
What better way to start September than with a delivery of brand new books - thank you @readforgood.bsky.social for this fab-u-lous selection!
Last day of term treats at the DHSSS - amazing Pierogi made by Year 7 students! Check out all our news in this term's newsletter at devonhospitalschool.org.uk
July 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Last day of term treats at the DHSSS - amazing Pierogi made by Year 7 students! Check out all our news in this term's newsletter at devonhospitalschool.org.uk
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✨The Imagination Station- Story Making Workshops for ages 6-11✨
Across 4 weeks at Exeter Library, Above Bounds Theatre will work with children to invent their own stories, through games, drama exercises & creative tasks.
Mon: 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August
11am-12pm
Free. Booking needed
Across 4 weeks at Exeter Library, Above Bounds Theatre will work with children to invent their own stories, through games, drama exercises & creative tasks.
Mon: 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August
11am-12pm
Free. Booking needed
July 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
✨The Imagination Station- Story Making Workshops for ages 6-11✨
Across 4 weeks at Exeter Library, Above Bounds Theatre will work with children to invent their own stories, through games, drama exercises & creative tasks.
Mon: 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August
11am-12pm
Free. Booking needed
Across 4 weeks at Exeter Library, Above Bounds Theatre will work with children to invent their own stories, through games, drama exercises & creative tasks.
Mon: 28 July, 4 August, 11 August, 18 August
11am-12pm
Free. Booking needed
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Owl Babies definitely deserving of a front row position on the @readforgood.bsky.social book trolley!
A huge 'thank you' to the wonderful @readforgood.bsky.social for our final delivery of books of 24/25 - so many treasures here to bring some joy over the summer break. Can you spot any old favourites? So pleased to see Owl Babies still going strong!🦉
July 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Owl Babies definitely deserving of a front row position on the @readforgood.bsky.social book trolley!
A huge 'thank you' to the wonderful @readforgood.bsky.social for our final delivery of books of 24/25 - so many treasures here to bring some joy over the summer break. Can you spot any old favourites? So pleased to see Owl Babies still going strong!🦉
July 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A huge 'thank you' to the wonderful @readforgood.bsky.social for our final delivery of books of 24/25 - so many treasures here to bring some joy over the summer break. Can you spot any old favourites? So pleased to see Owl Babies still going strong!🦉
We have been trying to increase biodiversity in our small garden recently, including fat balls and bug hotels made by our students. Next up, project pond begins!
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We have been trying to increase biodiversity in our small garden recently, including fat balls and bug hotels made by our students. Next up, project pond begins!
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🐟 The Girl With the Gills: Author Talk & Storytelling Workshop
A magical event with Becca Rogers, where young readers can invent their own underwater creatures & worlds! Ages 8–12 (with colouring for young siblings).
📍 Exeter Library
📅 Mon 11 AUG
🕧 12:30–1:30pm
🎫 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
A magical event with Becca Rogers, where young readers can invent their own underwater creatures & worlds! Ages 8–12 (with colouring for young siblings).
📍 Exeter Library
📅 Mon 11 AUG
🕧 12:30–1:30pm
🎫 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
July 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🐟 The Girl With the Gills: Author Talk & Storytelling Workshop
A magical event with Becca Rogers, where young readers can invent their own underwater creatures & worlds! Ages 8–12 (with colouring for young siblings).
📍 Exeter Library
📅 Mon 11 AUG
🕧 12:30–1:30pm
🎫 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
A magical event with Becca Rogers, where young readers can invent their own underwater creatures & worlds! Ages 8–12 (with colouring for young siblings).
📍 Exeter Library
📅 Mon 11 AUG
🕧 12:30–1:30pm
🎫 Free: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
We might be rattling towards the end of term but there's still plenty going on at DHSSS - take a look at our latest updates!
July 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We might be rattling towards the end of term but there's still plenty going on at DHSSS - take a look at our latest updates!
Fantastic foraging by our Year 7 students this morning in Art - they found a complete colour wheel within about 100m of our Outreach Centre!
July 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Fantastic foraging by our Year 7 students this morning in Art - they found a complete colour wheel within about 100m of our Outreach Centre!