This week in the Boarding House…
What a pleasure it has been to welcome back all our boarders this week, including flexi boarders who had not been able to board for quite a while. This week has been full of fun and excitement in the Boarding House and the beautiful weather and late nights have given us more opportunities to spend […]
ECS Wellbeing: Bishop Martin’s Awareness Practice- Week 1
Welcome back to my little attempts to provide you with practical and, I hope, accessible approaches to meditation and prayer. Obviously, I come from a Christian perspective, which after all lies at the heart of ECS life. However, please see that perspective as inclusive and expansive. To remind you, I’m assuming you will have ‘a go’ at these […]
ECS Wellbeing: Bishop Martin on ‘The Resurrection of the Body’
“…Who takes thee by the hand that thou likewise with him mayst rise!” George Herbert For some years, before his long illness and death, I exchanged letters with Jonathan Miller, that acerbic polymath: well-read and indeed immersed in so many aspects of intellectual matters, from science and medicine, through to Shakespeare and Opera. He was […]
ECS Wellbeing: Bishop Martin’s Awareness Practice (An Easter Story)
An Easter Story: ‘The Dead Tree This story of the dead tree is for your imagination. I enjoy telling stories and the ones I write I like to think of them being read out loud. Here’s one for you! You can either read it to your family at home, or ask someone else at home […]
ECS pupils take part in the Poetry By Heart competition
Children in years 3 – 8 have been working really hard all term to learn at least one, and in the vast majority of cases, two poems off by heart for the school round of the Poetry by Heart competition – and what a fabulous job they made of it! After class recitals, teachers selected […]
The narrative’s all wrong: there’s nothing ‘lost’ about this generation
Lots of people: Children must catch up. This is a lost generation; they have fallen behind. Me: I disagree. Lots of people: Why? Me: The upskilling in the nation’s young learners has been rapid and it’s been intensive. Never before has a generation of school children had to become so proficient so quickly with technology […]
ECS Shortlisted for Prep School of the Year
Exeter Cathedral School has been shortlisted as Prep School of the Year. The prominent Times Educational Supplement Independent School Awards 2021 recognise and celebrate the most outstanding institutions and those making remarkable contributions in the sector. The Headmaster, James Featherstone said: “We are very proud to have been shortlisted as Prep School of the Year, […]
This week in the Boarding House…
For our final week in the Boarding House before the Easter Holiday, the Boarding Team decided that Henry C (Year 6) would be our Star Boarder of the Week. Henry has worked really hard at keeping his dorm tidy and being organised. Every day, he has been practising his piano and his violin diligently. On […]
Record-breaking success for ECS pupils
Exeter Cathedral School is once again celebrating the success of its Year 8 pupils, all of whom have been awarded places to leading senior schools, with 84% of pupils achieving at least one award. Pupils have been offered a range of awards and places including some with double or triple scholarships. Reflecting the breadth of […]
The power of funny – turning laughs into lasting change
A smile is a powerful thing; a tool to spread joy, share delight and join others in amusement. It may seem a little tactless however, to start this blog with Spike Milligan’s poem about smiling, given the current COVID-19 pandemic. But the premise stands, and I hope you will forgive me for still including the […]
