Students with families

Penryn Campus Nursery

On the Penryn Campus, our 54-space purpose-built ‘Little Wonders Nursery’ caters for children between 0 to 5 years in three age group rooms: 6 months to 2 year olds, 2 to 3 year olds and 3 to 5 year olds. Each room has access to a secure, large, outdoor ecofriendly play and learning area.

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday, 8.30am –5.30pm

Email: nurserypenryn@ fxplus.ac.uk

Tel: + 44 (0) 1326 370408

Find out more at fxplus.ac.uk/ facilities-services/littlewonders-nursery

Schools

If your children are between five and 16 years old, the Local Education Authority (LEA) has a duty to provide a place for them in a local school.

You can apply for a school place before coming to the UK, and you are encouraged to do so, but any decision will not be made until you have evidence of a right of abode either through nationality or a valid visa.

Schools terms in the UK start at the beginning of September. You may be arriving later than that. The LEA will still provide you with a school place.

Some schools may have a school uniform; others may have a liberal dress code. Discipline is maintained through an agreed behaviour code within the individual school and there is no corporal punishment in state schools. To help your child settle into the school, it would be helpful if you brought a recent teacher’s report and some samples of work. You might also like to bring some reading books in your language and a dual dictionary (eg Korean/English) suitable for your child to use in school. Please be aware that schools in the South West have few specially trained language assistants.

You might need to contact the local authority for where you live to apply for a school place as you will be applying outside of the standard admissions time.

For Devon visit devon.gov.uk/ educationandfamilies/schoolinformation/apply-for-aschool-place

For Cornwall visit cornwall.gov. uk/schools-and-education/ schools-and-colleges/schooladmissions

Accommodation for families and couples

There are very limited places in university accommodation on or near our Exeter campus for students with partners and so we are unable to guarantee accommodation or accept any responsibility for housing couples. Our student accommodation is not suitable for us to be able to house students with children which means that any student bringing partners and dependants will need to seek private accommodation.

We have more information at exeter.ac.uk/accommodation/ residences/familyand couplesaccommodation including links to our private accommodation pages.