Pre-Prep Reflections Week 24 March 2025
Dear parents,
It was lovely to be back in school this week and to receive lots of hugs from the children on my return! The IAPS conference for pre-prep heads up in Leicester was excellent, with a wide range of speakers and seminars, focused on best practice and innovation in Early Years and Key Stage 1.
Miss Moore
Our lunchtime assistant, Miss Moore, is recovering well at home after her recent operation. However, it is unlikely that she will be able to return to work before the end of term. In the meantime, Ms AJ is helping Mr Heath with the daily lunch service, and will therefore not be in the school office between 11.30am and 1pm. Please bear with us if you are trying to telephone at this time.
School visits
On Wednesday morning, I drove down to Teignmouth to visit Trinity School, in a beautiful setting by the sea. I enjoyed meeting the Headmaster and Head of Prep for a tour. It is always good to see how other schools do things and to share ideas. We have leaders from other schools booked in to visit Exeter Pre-Prep next term and look forward to showing them around. Next Wednesday, we have the Chair of Governors, Gillian Hodgetts, spending the morning in school with us.
Red Nose Day
The children and staff looked fabulous today in a vast array of colourful outfits for our non-uniform day, along with a good number of red noses. Thank you for your generous donations which currently total £111.79 for the Comic Relief charity. We also welcomed Alice Holohan, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, over for lunch with the children today, and Ms Simpson popped in this afternoon to say hello to everyone.
Parent Drop-in
It was great to see many of you at this week’s parents’ evening. We hope you found the meetings with teachers useful and came away with a clear idea of your child’s next steps. Don’t forget that next Wednesday is another chance to come and have a look at some of your child’s work with them at our informal parent drop-in afternoon. Please head directly to your child’s class from 3pm if you are able to join us.
Next week
I will be helping with interviews for a new Head of HR over at Exeter School on Monday afternoon, and on Friday we will be holding interviews for Mrs Lawrence-Jones’s maternity cover in school. I am pleased to say that we have had an excellent field of applications for this role and we look set to make a strong appointment. Ms Richards will be out of school next Tuesday afternoon, so Mrs Goodwill will be covering in Year 2. I will be out of school all day on Thursday to attend a strategy day with the Exeter School leadership team and governors.
Have a lovely weekend and let’s hope the nice weather continues.
