Pre-Prep Reflections Week 5 October 2024

Diary Dates

Saturday 5 October – Exeter School open morning

Thursday 10 October – Year 2 taster day at Exeter School

Monday 14 October 8.50am – Class Reps meeting

Friday 18 October 3pm – Harvest assembly for parents

21 October to 1 November – Half term (2 weeks)

Wednesday 20 November 2.15pm – 7+ assessment parent information meeting

Wednesday 27 November 4.00-7.30pm – Parents’ evening

Tuesday 10 December 3pm – Informal parent drop-in

Thursday 12 & Friday 13 December 2.30pm – Nativity performances

Monday 16 December – Christmas jumper day

Tuesday 17 December – Christmas pantomime

Wednesday 18 December – End of autumn term (12 noon)

A list of term dates for the academic year 2024-25 is available on the school website.

Spotlight on Nursery

The Nursery children have had a very busy week learning about all things autumn! In mathematics, we have been learning about 2D shapes, playing ‘guess the shape’ using descriptive language to identify the shape hidden in the bag. We have also been practising our scissor cutting skills while creating an autumn shape picture. In literacy, our book of the week has been The Colour Monster; through this we have been able to explore with colour and talk about expressing our feelings. The children enjoyed colour mixing and creating their own class monster. We have also been on an autumn hunt around the school grounds, using our senses, collecting different sized leaves and making leaf hedgehogs. We will be using some of the leaves to create headbands for the harvest assembly. The children are settling into Nursery beautifully and we are so proud of them all!

Mrs Dray and Mrs Wannell

Harvest Assembly

Parents are warmly invited to attend our harvest assembly on Friday 18 October from 3pm in the school hall. You do not need to reserve tickets. Nursery children who do not attend on Fridays are welcome to join parents in the audience.

We will once again be supporting our local food bank, the Westbank community larder, and would welcome non-perishable donations to be brought into school by the children from Monday next week. All donations are welcome but priority items listed by the charity are:

• Fruit squash and fruit juice (long life)
• Tinned meat, fish, vegetables, potatoes
• Tinned soup, tinned pies
• Biscuits
• Dry noodle snacks
• Pasta sauces
• Jams and spreads
• Custard
• Sponge pudding
• Coffee
• Household items (washing up liquid, laundry capsules, etc.)

We would appreciate it if items could be sent in carrier bags or small boxes to aid transportation. Every item will be used to help a local person or family in need. Thank you in advance for your support.

Mrs Wannell

Charities Co-ordinator

House point totals

The children have continued to do well in demonstrating our school character virtues of kindness, helpfulness, curiosity and teamwork. The tokens have been counted and here are the totals for the last two weeks:

Devonport (Red): 136

Brixham (Yellow): 132

Bridgwater (Green): 131

Bideford (Blue): 123

Congratulations to Devonport! We now have our smart new house shields on display in the hall. Every fortnight, these are hung in rank order in our celebration assembly. Thanks to the operations team for making these for us.

Mrs Lawrence-Jones

Head of Pastoral Care