Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Decorated classroom doors

  Sun 08 Mar 2026

  Each class also decorated their door based on a book.

  

• World Book Day

  Fri 06 Mar 2026

  We had a wonderful World Book Day on Thursday. Everyone looked amazing and the school was filled with colour, creativity and characters from all our favourite stories. Thank you to everyone who joined in and helped make the day so special. Throughout the day, children had the opportunity to listen to stories in mixed-age groups and there were a wide variety of activities taking place in classrooms, creating a literary buzz throughout the school.

  

• House Captains KS2 sports competition

  Thu 12 Feb 2026

  Thursday was the House Captains tag rugby festival. Again, 2 children per house for each class were chosen to take part.

  "We started with a warm up and worked on their agillity skills. We got the children passing the ball round the large circle then went into mini tournaments. They showed fast skills, good resilience and good sportsmanship and friendship when they weren't winning." 

  

• House captains KS1 sports competition

  Wed 11 Feb 2026

  The House captains organised their first sports competition for EYFS & KS1. Their focus was multiskills and tag rugby. They randomly chose 8 children from each class, 2 per house, to participate. The House Captains were so impressed with how the children didn't give up and all participated well. They were calm and behaved well in such a small space (dining room). The House Captains really enjoyed it and are looking forward to tomorrow's KS2 tag rugby.

   

  

• Library Van visit

  Mon 09 Feb 2026

  We were very lucky to have Sue from the School library service bring the library van to our school. Each child from Reception to year 4 had the opportunity to visit the van and choose a book for their classroom library. Further books were chosen to update our library stock. Year 5 and 6 had previously had a visit from Ali, from the school library service, who delivered their Reading Roundabout sessions and left 100 new books for them to enjoy. 

  

• Number Day

  Fri 06 Feb 2026

  Thank you so much to all the children who dressed up, and for the adults at home who helped with the amazing costumes. We had calculators, number puzzles, colourful number decorated T-shirts, a Numbots robot and of course "6 7" made several appearances. We all came together for assembly so we could see all the classes’ outfits, then had a number quiz - hopefully the children will remember some of the facts I shared.

  Each class got involved with different Maths activities being creative, cooking and working on tessellation and design

  

• Y5 and 6 netball matches

  Wed 04 Feb 2026

  Well done to the Y5 & 6 Netball team for representing the school in a match against Shebbear Prep school. It was a close game with lots of goals from both schools. The children all behaved excellently and were a credit to the school. It's so great to be able to play a proper match with a bit of competitiveness! Well done and a big thank you to the parent drivers who without we wouldn't be able to take the children to these matches!

  Mrs Powlesland & Mrs Rice

• Family reading

  Wed 04 Feb 2026

  Thank you to everyone who joined us for Family Reading on Wednesday - it was wonderful to see such a fantastic turnout and to share some lovely reading time together. We’re looking forward to the next Family Reading session on Thursday 26th March at 2.45pm, where there will also be a tasty Easter treat for everyone to enjoy. We hope to see you there

  

• Panto Trip

  Thu 04 Dec 2025

  Whole school trip to see Jack and the Beanstalk at Exeter Northcott Theatre was a truly magical event. This was organised and paid for by the PTFA and was enjoyed by all those who attended - children, staff and volunteers.  This experience was a first for many but hopefully not the last! THANK YOU 😁 (we even had snow....)

   

  

• Autumn Term 1 2025

  Fri 24 Oct 2025

  What an incredible first half term we have had! Over the Summer Cladco built new steps and ramp up to year 1 classroom, this has made it so much safer for everyone going into Hawthorns' class. We have come together as a whole school for several occasions; our annual whole school walk and the Harvest festival. We all celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight too. On top of all our wonderful experiences in the classroom year 4 went off on their residential to Hooke Court and Year 2 have enjoyed their Victorian day. We have been joined by many of our parents too with our Meet the Teacher meetings, Class Maths Workshops and more recently our first Family Read session. Several Clubs have been running after school including Art Club, Dance Club, Gardening Club, Maths Club and Running Club. We have started well with sporting events too. Year 6 represented school brilliantly and won the football tournament. 

  How will we match this next half term.