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Year 6 pupils from Westcliff Primary Academy complete Torbay and Devon Civic Award 

A group of 19 students from Westcliff Primary Academy in Dawlish have successfully graduated from the 2025/26 Torbay and Devon Civic Award scheme this year.  

Gary Vine, Online Publicist and Business Admin from Torbay and Devon Civic Award, says, ‘Your students are a credit and an inspirational generation of the future supported by fantastic teachers like yourself. It was a privilege to witness the end result and celebrate what everyone achieved at the presentation evening held at ISCA Academy earlier this month where just over 100 pupils received their certificates from Councillor Rosie Dawson, Chair of Devon Council.’ 

The presentation evening was presented by Karen Thomson, Award Founder and Coordinator, who spoke to the children about the history and legacy of the award and about taking the values of the award into their secondary schools and their lives. 

Karen Thomson first introduced the Torbay Civic Award in 2004 as she believed that education should be broader and more future-driven, while offering transferable skills and helping children become well-rounded, confident, and caring individuals who strive to make a difference in their various communities. 

To achieve the award, pupils have to prove their participation in six main areas: 

  • Active Citizenship in their school community, for example, offering peer support or holding positions of trust and responsibility in school. 

  • Active Citizenship in their home communities. In the past, pupils have taken part in beach cleans, bulb planting, helping at Brownies /Cubs/sports clubs and looking after people in the community.  

  • A physical hobby(ies) and A non-physical hobby(ies): Children should spend about 30 minutes on average a week on their hobbies and one of them needs to be new to the child from the September of Year 6. 

  • Residential experience and adventure training: Sleeping away from home and family and taking part in outdoor challenges.  

  • Children need to adopt a cause or charity which they feel strongly about. They need to research it and find ways of supporting it. 

  • Children need to make a pledge to the planet, research ways to help save the environment, and take action on at least one issue. 

  • The children must also pass a rigorous assessment when they present this evidence to an external assessor. 

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