Excitement has greeted the news that two district primary schools are to work together from September.

Governors at St Michael's C of E, Kingsteignton, and St Catherine's C of E, Heathfield, have agreed to form a management partnership with St Michael's head, Martin Harding, at the helm.

Mr Harding was last month named south west headteacher of the year and will find out in October if he has won the national title.

One of his senior staff, Adrian Clements, is to become head of learning at St Catherine's where headteacher Gill Murch is leaving to get married.

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