Boarding House News
What a magical Big Boarding Sleepover we had, with 38 pupils enjoying the Harry Potter themed evening. The boarding house and the dining room were decorated to look like Hogwarts. The boys’ floor was called the ‘Wizards’ Floor’ and the girls’ floor the ‘Witches’ Floor’. We even had the cupboard under the stairs! Downstairs in the […]
Art News
The ECS Remembrance Display is starting to take shape in the Radford Room with a background of letters from World War 1. The children’s poppies are all brilliant and I can’t wait to start putting them up! Just a reminder that we would absolutely love poppies from all parents or grandparents or siblings of ECS children please, […]
Artists of the Week
Artists of the Week – Artists Mannequins drawn in fine liner or biro. Our Artists of the Week are: Josie C Year 6 Joshua T Year 6 Ruari Q Year 6 Kersten P Year 6 Millie C Year 5 Charlotte J Year 4 Mrs Zoe Reavill Head of Art and Design
FECS Letter 12th October
So the FECS Barn Dance is taking place this evening after weeks of preparation, and the committee is very excited to welcome those of you that can make it. We’ve sold in excess of 80 tickets and with some great entertainment, good food and drink we’re sure it’s set to be a fantastic night! The […]
Headmaster’s Blog
We’ve been doing a fair amount to open up the School to parents and guardians lately, and to make it as easy as possible for families to engage with life at ECS both within and outside of the classroom. It’s been terrific to welcome parents and guardians to our recent information and curriculum evenings; to […]
Boarding House News
Star Boarder of the Week The Star Boarder of the Week (SBW) is a pupil who represents the school values and habits on a daily basis around the boarding house – they work hard, they look after other people and they also look after the boarding house. Each week, the boarding staff vote for a pupil […]
Sport News
Fresh news from boys U8 at the Tag rugby festival at Blundells. All the boys had a brilliant time, played some excellent rugby and scored some great tries! Another promising display from our Under 13 girls hockey, well done to all involved. Also congratulations to Isabella P-J, Olivia T and Emily J for their successful selection […]
Cracking the Code at Sherborne School
A group of Year 7 pupils attended a cracking day at Sherborne school for boys and girls. They took part in 4 exciting activities. In Maths they applied their knowledge of geometry and integers to decode some puzzles, in science extracting DNA from Kiwi Fruit was interspersed with finding as many different words as possible […]
Nursery Weather Forecast
The nursery children have been looking at different weathers. We have celebrated the sunshine and encouraged it to stay around for a little longer by making sunshine mobiles and displays. This week we have been looking at the rain and talking about how important the rain is for our food, for the growing plants and […]
New Staff – Mrs Kennaugh
The Hall House family keeps growing! Mrs Caroline Kennaugh has joined our Reception Frogs class in September, teaching alongside Mrs Bowles. We asked Mrs Kennaugh for a quick bio, and here it is: I have been a Teacher for 25 years mostly within the Early Years. My most recent post was at Taunton School where I […]
