Junior Reflections Week 30 May 2025

Dear parents,

Terrific support

Monday was kicked off with house assemblies whereby the whole school community met with other pupils across the year groups and shared all the things that they had to look forward to. House captains did a fantastic job of leading each assembly on the theme of teamwork, as part of mental health awareness week. There were some brilliant discussions from each of the houses about the ways they can support and encourage each other.

Creativity abound

Upper One have been particularly busy this week writing suspense-filled stories, they created their own detective, along with a nemesis, a sidekick, a special gadget, and an extraordinary vehicle for them to travel around in. Alongside this in DT they have been planning and making pizzas. Huge excitement and delicious smells have been wafting down the corridors with the highlight of choosing their toppings and making their own dough. Lower Two classes have been busy painting their clay gargoyles in art, always a highlight and I still have my child’s gargoyle proudly displayed at home. Not only did they have fun creating their own, but they also enjoyed finding out all about gargoyles and are looking forward to their walk into Exeter where they will observe the gargoyles at the cathedral. As always, a hive of activity in our classrooms.

Sports

The weather was kind for all our sports fixtures this week with the lower school travelling across county to West Buckland and having a super afternoon of cricket – both girls and boys enjoyed a set of entertaining matches. Good luck to the upper school this afternoon, and to the athletics team who are taking part in their first meet of the season over at Blundell’s.

Summer fete

We have our summer fete coming up in a couple of weeks, Saturday 7 June, 1-4pm. I do hope to see many of you there. It is going to be a lot of fun with food and drink stalls as well. There will be a bottle tombola which is being organised by the junior school parents – if you are able to donate a bottle of some description for this stall it would be much appreciated. Bottles can be dropped off at the bursary.

Inset day reminder

A reminder that there is a staff inset day on the first Monday after half term with the first day of school being on Tuesday 3 June.

Enjoy the weekend and if you are visiting the Devon County Show on Saturday do pop in to our stand and say hello we would love to see you – we can be found on Stand 29, Avenue A.

Mrs Saskia van Schalkwyk

Jazz Supper

On Thursday 3 July at 6.30pm, the main hall will be transformed into an atmospheric jazz club where the audience can enjoy a light meal with wine and the relaxed atmosphere of the end of the school year. The concert will feature Swunk, Jazz Bank 1, Jazz Band 2, Swunkette, and more……

Ticket Prices Adult £12 / Child £8

This price includes a light supper and two drinks – please pre-book your place by Thursday 19 June.

Click here to book your ticket

Exeter Music Holiday School

Exeter Music Holiday School will be open over May half term and running workshops for pupils age 5-16, at Countess Wear Community School, with classes in music, drama, musical theatre, song and lyric writing, arts & crafts and forest school among others.

For more information and to book, please click here.

Junior school concert

The video recording of last term’s junior school concert is now available on Planet e-Stream. Apologies if this link did not work for you last week.

Click here to view the video

Playground people of the week

Agnes C L2P

Henry M U1W

Junior School News

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The sunshine is giving us flashbacks to sports day two weeks ago.   What an awesome effort from everyone in senior school 👏   Head over to Flickr for more photos of the days events!  #sportsday #exeterschools #independentschoolsuk #devonschools #exeterdevon #schoolofgreatcharacter

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Farewell Ms Simpson! Thank you for all that you have done for Exeter School and good luck for your next steps.   #schoolofgreatcharacter

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Too much effort and too many pupils to include in a 90 sec reel but here are some highlights from today's house dance competition. And the winners were Goff!

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