FECS Letter 8th June
Welcome back everyone, I hope you all had a good half term break. It was lovely to see some of you at today’s coffee morning in Hall House. Aside from today’s event, the FECS team have been extremely busy as it’s only one week to go until our biggest event of the year. We have […]
Headmaster’s Blog
‘Exams’ is a word that has been doing the rounds in the Prep School this week. Unsurprising, really: our internal exam week (for Years 5-7) began on Monday, and the Year 8s are making the most of their final few lessons before their Common Entrance tests begin after half term. French listening, French orals and […]
FECS Letter 25th May
Our annual auction and wine tasting was a great success last week. The wine tasting was hosted by local sommelier Iain from Smith’s wine shop in St Leonard’s with the auction being run by the fantastic Christopher Hampton. It was a fabulous evening of enjoying good food and wine whilst raising money for the new […]
This Week at ECS
Exeter Cathedral School Calendar Trinity Term Calendar: Half Term and Week Commencing 4th June 2018
Sports News
Running, jumping, throwing, hitting and catching all features in this week’s Sports News! As seems to be the case quite often with the Sports News, I will start this week’s newsletter by casting my mind back to last week! Last Friday, 26 students from Year 3 to Year 8 travelled to Blundell’s to participate in […]
Medieval Mayhem!
Year 1 galloped back in time yesterday for a spot of jousting, dancing and crafting on their very own Medieval Day. Everyone got into the spirit, arriving in an array of impressive costumes and, not to be outdone, the teachers also dressed for the occasion! The children got in some target practice with their foam lances and rehearsed […]
A Letter from the Queen
Year 3 received some very exciting post this week. As part of our History topic on royalty through the ages we had looked at our modern royal family and thought of some questions we would like to ask the Queen. We used our English lessons to hone our letter writing skills, posted our letters off […]
Art News
This week some of our Year 5 and 6’s have been busy completing a John Lewis Innovation Challenge called ‘Skills for Life’. The challenge set by their Sustainability Managers was ‘How would you reinvent a school blazer to give it a new life?’ We have 4 teams and they have all come up with some original and inventive ideas and […]
Artists of the Week
Some excellent clay work again this week. Well done to: Xanthe S Year 5 Freddie W Year 5 Maddy R Year 6 Hannah G Year 6 Felicity P & Oscar G Year 7 Mrs Zoe Reavill Head of Art and Design
Headmaster’s Blog
Who doesn’t love a Royal wedding? Monarchist or no, the pageantry and sense of excitement that builds up across the county as Prince gets set to marry (soon-to-be) Princess lends us all an uplifting sense of celebration and a sort of bunting-based camaraderie. Actually, though, in Morning Worship this week (from the Cathedral Quire – […]
