Pre-Prep Reflections Week 31 May 2025

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.

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Upper Two Production – The Wizard of Oz

Upper Two would like to invite you to Oz: a magical and eccentric world full of music where the characters try to find a brain, a heart, some courage, and the way home.

We will meet at 6.15pm for drinks on the Prefects’ Lawn with the play starting at 7pm sharp in the Drama Studio. Please be aware that the doors enter straight into the performance space, so once the play begins they will be shut.

Ticket Prices: Adult £6.50 / Child £3.50

The performances will take place on the following evenings:

U2E – Tuesday 17 June

U2C – Wednesday 18 June

U2T – Thursday 19 June

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Please contact the Box Office if you have any special access requirements (01392) 458934

Diary Dates

Monday 26 to Friday 30 May – May half term (school closed)

Monday 2 June – Staff INSET day (school closed)

Wednesday 4 June – Whole school theatre trip

Tuesday 24 June – Year 2 trip to Paignton Zoo

Thursday 26 June – Year 1 trip to Middlemoor Fire Station

Monday 30 June – End of year reports issued

Tuesday 1 July – Transition Day

Friday 4 July 1.30pm – Sports Day

Monday 7 July 3pm – Informal parent drop-in afternoon

Tuesday 8 July 2.30pm – Summer showcase

Wednesday 9 July – Term ends at 3.30pm

Term dates for 2024-25 and 2025-26 are available to download from the school website.

Spotlight on Reception

This week in Reception we have been concluding our topic work on fairy tales. Our focus text has been Little Red Riding Hood and, in literacy, the children have enjoyed retelling the story in their writing and orally answering comprehension questions. In phonics, we have been learning all about adjacent consonants, which the children have been doing brilliantly with. We have practised this further during shared reading sessions, where the children collaboratively read a text and answered questions together. In mathematics, we have been consolidating our knowledge of ‘one more’ and ‘one less’ of numbers to 20. It has been wonderful to see how well the children are progressing and growing in confidence in their swimming lessons with Mr Ross. It was also lovely to take part in the fairy tale ball with Nursery today. The children dressed up in their party clothes, had a picnic, danced to music and read their favourite stories. We hope you all have a wonderful half term.

Mrs Rickard, Mrs Smyth and Miss Adams

Sweetie bags

The Exeter School summer fete, organised by the Family Society, is fast approaching! We would like to show our support by supplying a sweetie bag tombola stall on the day. Each pre-prep child has been given a white paper bag today. Please could they decorate the bag at home however they wish – they can draw, paint, collage, be as creative as they like – as long as the bag remains intact. We would then like you to fill the decorated bag with wrapped sweets/confectionery (no nuts or chilled items, please).

Please could the bags be returned to school after half term, by Wednesday 4 June at the latest. The winning designs will be awarded prizes in assembly on Friday 6 June and then all of the sweetie bags will be taken to the fete on Saturday 7 June. I spoke to the children in assembly about this today. So if you’re going shopping over half term, remember to stock up on sweets! Many thanks in advance for your support.

Mr Ayling

Whole school theatre trip

Continuing our annual tradition of a whole school theatre trip, this year we have booked to see The Koala Who Could at The Palace Theatre, Paignton. The trip will take place on the morning of Wednesday 4 June 2025. We will be travelling by coach and school minibus, leaving at 9am and returning to school by lunchtime.

The Koala Who Could is a brand-new musical stage adaptation of the best-selling picture book by Rachel Bright and Jim Field. It is an empowering and humorous story about taking a chance and embracing change, set in the Australian Outback. The performance will begin at 10:30am and lasts for 55 minutes.

A letter containing full details of the trip was emailed separately to all parents last Friday. If you have not already done so, please complete the e-consent form here as soon as possible so that we can confirm final numbers with the theatre.

Mr Ayling

Parent Social

Max in Reception’s mum, Leigh Farmer, is organising a night out for Exeter School parents. If you would like to join, you can find out more and book tickets here.