A Letter from Bishop Martin Shaw
Dear Friends, I am writing to you at Epiphany. Western Christianity celebrates today as ‘The Showing’; the ‘Manifestation of Christ to the World’. Eastern Christianity celebrates today as Christmas. One of the reasons for the calculation of the date of the Winter Solstice. So, using both festivals, the 12 days of Christmas mark the days […]
Virtual birthday celebrations for our boarders!
Our Housemaster, Monsiuer Baurance, is missing his second family of boarders but they have managed to celebrate some birthdays online this week. He even put together a virtual birthday card for each of them! Whilst our boarders are away, Monsiuer Baurance and our wonderful overseas Gap Student, Miss Pyman, will be honing their skills on […]
Merry Christmas from FECS
We may not have been able to host our usual FECS Christmas Fair but there was no stopping Father Christmas this year. We organised for Father Christmas to visit Hall House as usual on 4 December to spread some socially-distanced festive cheer and give each child a small gift. Though he wasn’t able to visit […]
This week in the Boarding House
What a fantastic last week of term it has been for our wonderful boarders! This week, instead of having our usual Star Boarder of the week, we had two Star Boarders, and I would like to call them our Star Boarders of Michaelmas Term. Both Margot CM and Ellenna C (Year 6) have been fantastic […]
Mother and son work together to publish a book! Introducing ‘Tiggs and the Midnight Choir’
Brave boy challenges baldness and lockdown by illustrating a book James, age 12, suffering with alopecia, uses lockdown to finish over 140 drawings to illustrate a book – a contemporary ghost story based on his own life. If you lost your hair, would you want to bury your head? James, age 12, could have done […]
A Christmas Letter from Bishop Martin
Dear ECS Friends, The photograph is of my wife Elspeth’s Advent Wreath. A candle is lit every Sunday. The colours are significant of the mysteries of Advent, but this is not the place to go into them. If you would like to know more about the mysteries, then just drop me an email. For […]
ECS Learning@Home
Year 4 have enjoyed a trip to the Roman Baths and made their own musical instruments this week! They took a 3D tour of the Roman Baths and then produced fact-files, drawings and posters. They learned about the Tepidarium, Caldarium and Frigidariums and even found out that they had food and drink stalls and entertainment there […]
This week in the Boarding House
Isaac W (6P) is this week’s Star Boarder. One might say it can be quite challenging to be awarded Star Boarder when you only board once a week because you have less time to show how good you are. Throughout the term, even though he only boards on Thursday night, Isaac has showed fantastic behaviour […]
Superhero Sport!
What a week, I am just catching my breath! It has been filled with so much energy and excitement, you can tell the end of term is within touching distance. We kick started the week with multi sports club for Year 5 and 6. Each week they try a new sport and this week we […]
Sport: ECS School Games!
In absence of our weekly fixture list, we decided that the pupils should have some competition to test out their new skills. We hosted our very own ECS SCHOOL GAMES. In year group bubbles we mixed the girls and boys and enjoyed a tag rugby festival. The matches were fun, fast and very enjoyable. There was some tenacious […]
