A final visit from St Margaret’s
St Margaret's School, Exeter. © Copyright Richard Dorrell An outing to Fairlynch Museum for children at St Margaret’s School in Exeter was one of the last visits organised by the school before it closed at the end of the summer term. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fifteen girls aged from11 to 13 took part in a trip with the aim of looking at geographical and geological features along the river Otter from Ottery St Mary to Budleigh Salterton. English teacher, Sue Diggins, explained that the pupils had been studying Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his poetry and Geography teacher, Di Forbes, used the field trip to consolidate the pupils’ knowledge. “In Ottery St Mary we looked at the effects of flooding on the river banks and the ...