Headmaster’s Blog
It’s been an action-packed week, this one, with huge numbers of sports teams taking to the fields and enormous numbers of musicians working hard in some high-profile performance opportunities, namely in Exeter University’s Great Hall and at this evening’s Charity Concert in the Cathedral. On that music front, I am delighted to share with you […]
Year 2 ‘Pirate Day’
“Walk the plank!” The Year 2 pirate day started as enthusiastically as it finished, although thankfully no one was made to actually walk the plank! We started off on a treasure hunt, deciphering a special pirate alphabet to work out clues which took us all around Hall House. Then we went over to the FT room […]
Specialist Senior Awards Announced
I am pleased to announce that the following pupils have been offered a Specialist Senior Award from September 2018: Academic M Rayner S Phillips A Wickham Music M Rayner Sport E Jury B Willis Visual/Performing Arts F Brook C Clark T Coldrick P Ellisson G Payne All-Rounder S Bradley Well done to everyone. The standard […]
ECS Pi Day Activities
Who knew that one of Maths most famous numbers could be calculated with sweets? Using only skittles, the students in Yr 8 recreated the discovery of the magic ratio Pi. Esme even managed to get her skittles to yield the exact result! Mrs Lake-Johns and Mrs Stallard Maths Department
Library News – Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Medal Books Shadowing Group
The Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Medal shortlisted books have been announced this week and I would like to invite pupils in Years 3-8 to come along and join one of our Shadowing Groups. Pupils read the shortlisted books and discuss with group members what they like or dislike about the texts before posting reviews on […]
Heads Together – supporting pupils’ mental health and wellbeing at ECS
We are delighted to be supporting an exciting and important new initiative to promote the mental health of children in schools. The Duchess of Cambridge has launched ‘Mentally Healthy Schools’ this week with the aim to provide schools with practical resources, knowledge and confidence in promoting and supporting pupils’ mental health. As a School, we […]
Nursery Visit to Paignton Zoo
The nursery children enjoyed their trip to Paignton Zoo. The monkey performed tricks, the gibbon danced, the giraffe posed for photos and the gorilla pulled faces at us through the glass. The rain came in the afternoon, so we spent some lovely time in the reptile house, trying to find the camouflaged chameleons, watching the birds […]
Go Local Food Competition!
On Monday 19th March we are doing a ‘Go Local’ Food Competition in our School Kitchen with judges from Wellington School coming to assess the dishes we make. A selection of dishes will be on offer for lunch that day including: Guess the Soup of the Day Exeter Squab Pie Exeter Vegetarian Squab Pie Minted […]
Pre-Prep Yoga Club
Our Pre-Prep Yoga Club has been creating some wonderful yoga poses. There have been some wonderful names for these new poses, including Pearl Mermaid Flower pose, Lion Pyramid, Flipover Tower and Flying Angels. Well done to all of our Yoga Club pupils! Mrs Hockings Pre-Prep Yoga Club
Boarding House News
Hello from the boarding house. All is well and busy here in Eyre House. It has been a busy month for birthdays. We have had a belated 13th birthday party for a snow bound boarder. It seems impossible that it was only two weeks ago we had such extreme weather. Monday night saw a fun […]
