Junior Reflections Week 11 2023
Dear parents,
I am officially ready to say that the festive period has started, and it is lovely to drive in in the mornings with many lights already up. On Thursday there was a buzz of excitement as a few flakes of snow started to fall. We are steam rolling ahead to the end of term and, as always, the week has been a hive of business, learning and fun all thrown together.
Friendship
Friendship was the theme for the week and the pupils showed their knowledge of Disney friends in assembly and shared with each other what makes a good friend. We discussed that friends should make us happy and be loyal – great advice for us all. Good friends should make you smile, make you laugh and make every day worthwhile.
Open morning
Our Upper Two pupils were on form on Tuesday with an abundance of volunteers to show our prospective parents around the school for our open morning event. As always, our visitors were blown away by our wonderful school site and facilities (thank you Estates team). But, more importantly, they were impressed with how articulate and proud the pupils were to show off the school and all that they do here. I know that I have said this before, but the pupils really do make me a very proud head and you, as parents, should also be very proud.
Robot making
Lower Two enjoyed a robot morning today, with some help from our wonderful sixth formers who were on hand to share their knowledge in coding. A lot of fun was had and I was extremely impressed with the collaboration that took place between the pupils in the groups and the thought process and questioning between each other was amazing to see… curious minds being challenged.
Autism information sessions
Following last year’s successful autumn sessions with Lisa McCullagh from Southwest Autism, we are pleased to offer more parent sessions this year. The sessions are designed to support parents of children with a diagnosis of autism / Autistic Spectrum Condition, or on the ASC pathway. Equally, parents who would like to find out more should find the sessions informative. The first session, focusing on the challenges of the festive season, will take place on Wednesday 13 December, at 5:30pm in the Andrews Hall. There will be two more sessions next term, on 3 and 24 February from 10am – 12pm. Some parents will have already received notification of these sessions and have signed up. If you would also like to attend some or all of the sessions, please email Ali Dunning here.
Diary dates
As we head into the last couple of weeks of the autumn term I thought it would be useful to remind you of the up and coming events;
- Tuesday 5 December – All year groups out on their history trips – no activities/clubs
- Tuesday 5 December – Water Aid concert at Exeter Cathedral 7:30pm
- Friday 8 December – junior school disco night: lower school 5pm – 6pm and upper school 6:30pm – 7:30pm in the main hall – if possible, please can all lower school pupils attending the disco be picked up at 3:40pm
- Tuesday 12 December – school carol concert 2:15pm in the main hall
- Wednesday 13 December – Christmas jumper/hat day
- Friday 15 December – last day of term pick up is at 12pm (all buses go at 12.15pm)
