From School Kitchens to Helping Hands: Exeter Cathedral School’s Community Fights Food Poverty alongside St Petrock’s
Exeter Cathedral School’s catering providers, Thomas Franks Ltd, have a remarkable initiative: Feeding Communities. The mission? Prepare and deliver hot and cold meals to the UK and Europe’s most vulnerable. To date they’ve delivered more than 1,000,000 meals, and the school is proud to have helped meet this incredible milestone by offering specially-prepared meals each week to their friends and […]
Signing with Success: Exeter Cathedral School Celebrates Deaf Awareness Week
This week, Exeter Cathedral School buzzed with a different kind of communication as we celebrated Deaf Awareness Week! It was a chance to learn, celebrate, and promote the richness and vibrancy of Deaf culture. Did you know that estimates suggest the total number of BSL users in the UK are around 150,000, including those who […]
Exeter Cathedral School Leads the Way in Online Safety for Families
This evening, we held our Online Safety Webinar for parents & guardians at Exeter Cathedral School. It was a success, with many parents in the webinar chat thanking the school for educating them on this vital matter. One parent said “I just wanted to thank you for organising the webinar on Wednesday evening. It has […]
Exeter Cathedral School is becoming a THRIVE school ☀️
Using the Thrive Approach I’m excited to let you know that ECS is in the process of becoming a Thrive school. The Thrive Approach is a way of working so that we improve the mental health and wellbeing of our children alongside their academic development. In January all staff had introductory training on the Thrive […]
Charity Concert 2024 – A Huge Musical & Fundraising Success for Charity, The Wave Project
A highlight of this week was indeed our spectacular annual Charity Concert! A huge well done to everyone in the ECS community who contributed to the success of Thursday’s concert – it was such a joy for us all to experience the culmination of many hours of hard work. Thank you, too, to all who donated to […]
International Women’s Day – ECS Pupils Give Inspiring Assembly
Happy International Women’s Day! This morning, Maisie, Tanya and Molly organised and delivered a superb assembly on Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Frida Kahlo, touching on the incredible impact they have each had. Super job! We are grateful to every female staff, parent and pupil for what they each uniquely give to our school community. […]
Exeter University’s Scientific Research Team inspire ECS pupils with a special visit
Earlier today, ECS pupils were given a unique opportunity thanks to the generosity of the scientific research team at the University of Exeter. Experts in their fields of study hosted a workshop here in our school grounds, combining engaging activities and scientific tools that pupils could interact with to showcase their research and, most importantly, […]
ECS Futures Week 2024: Inspiring our Future Leaders
A huge thank-you to all of the speakers of this year’s Futures Week, who gave their time to share the stories and lessons learnt from their careers to date, and to Mr Meeke, for coordinating the event. We heard from experts in the NHS, the sciences, economics, the army, veterinary medicine, building surveying + more. […]
Diversity assembly: ‘Migration and how it benefits society’
This week, Mr Davies led an insightful assembly on the theme of migration, and how it benefits society. We began by exploring Steve Jobs being a migrant’s son and the impact he went on to have, after which we looked at UK-specific examples of Mo Farah, Rita Ora and Michael Marks. We also looked at […]
Pupils Celebrate Express Yourself Day for Children’s Mental Health Week
Today we celebrated ‘Express Yourself Day’, as part of Children’s Mental Health Week. It has been a wonderful week of learning how to look after our and others’ mental health.
