Staff update

We are pleased to announce that we will be welcoming three new members of staff to our school in the New Year. Mrs Katherine Wilson will be joining our school. Mrs Wilson will job-share with Mrs Kennaugh as Year 2 Foxes’ class teacher in the mornings (Thursdays and Fridays) and as the Year 2 teacher […]

ECS takes part in Children in Need with a wide range of activities

Activities took place across all year groups this morning to support Children in Need. Here is a snapshot of what we all got up to… Year 1 and 2 had a golden assembly, all about Children in Need.  Pupils participated in a quiz and at the end, Mrs Pennington asked if a child would like […]

ECS Sport Update

This week has probably been one of the most rewarding weeks in the sports department. That may sound strange in a time where very little seems to be as it was, or the way we used to do things. Let me tell you why. We seem to have more sport going on than ever before. […]

Year 4 commemorate Remembrance day by writing poetry

On Wednesday 4K spent the morning writing some beautiful and thoughtful acrostic poems with the theme of remembrance. Children wrote about what Remembrance day meant to them and the lessons they thought we should learn from our past. Well done 4K for creating these beautiful poems!    

This week in the boarding house

Josh T (Year 8) is our Star Boarder of the Week this week. Josh currently boards twice a week and always displays fantastic behaviour around the Boarding House. Josh is also enthusiastic and committed to his music practice sessions. The Boarding Team were especially impressed with his practice on Thursday evening. Josh is a great […]

ECS Remembers: Pupils perform lines from the famous war poem ‘For the Fallen’

Fourteen pupils perform lines from Laurence Binyon’s ‘The Fallen’, as part of our Remembrance commemorations. “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.” Thank you to: Freddy […]

Sport under the rainbow

Winter is fast approaching, and we’ve had our first chills at Games this week. The pupils have embraced the fresh crisp air and we have remained thankful for enjoying outdoor space and being back at the University hockey AstroTurf pitches, even if it is for a limited time. The boys continue to get muddy and […]

Staff News

We are happy to announce that three new members of staff have joined our community! Mrs Ella Prior joins as our Marketing and Communications Officer – you’ll be likely to see her around School with her camera! Ella studied English and Drama at Exeter University and recently worked at Regen, as the Membership and Communications […]

Year 7 Science experiments!

Yr 7 combined imagination and artistic flair with Scientific research last half term.  They selected an individual cell from a plant or animal of their choice and found out about its function and structure.  After three weeks of preparation, they each gave a speech about their cell and revealed a 3-d model of it, indicating […]

This week in the boarding house

What a pleasure it was to welcome our lovely boarders back to the Boarding House this week after a two week break. For this first week of the second half of Michaelmas, our Star Boarder is Henry C (Year 6). Henry came back with a lot of motivation to do well in his violin exam […]