The Chorister family 🤍 📸: Emma Solley

Our bread making masterclass for our Nursery pupils helped them develop their: 🍞 Hand-eye coordination 🍞 Finger dexterity 🍞 Sensory Skills 🍞 Sequencing 🍞 Problem-solving 🍞 Patience

We're taking a moment to thank our amazing Teaching Assistants! What do you appreciate about these wonderful members of staff? Every comment on this post is going to be passed on to them, so let's start sharing our gratitude 🙌 🎉

#SkernLodge2024 – three days of adventure and team-building for Year 7! Thank you to the amazing team at Skern Lodge 💙

Isca Dumnoniorum (the Roman name for modern-day Exeter) stood strong against a surprise Celtic attack (Year 3) last week! Skills developed: ✅ Historical inquiry ✅ Perspective-taking ✅ Story-telling

This is set to be a wonderful concert, featuring ECS parents, choristers and Governors – do book your tickets! 📷

JOY in the classroom 🎨 #LifeatExeterCathedralSchool

FUN in the classroom! 👩‍🔬 #LifeatExeterCathedralSchool 📸: Emma Solley

Building Bonds for Life 🤝 Did you know that our Nursery and Pre-Prep pupils regularly interact with our Prep School children? This offers them 4 key benefits: 🌱 Social skills 🌱 Confidence boost 🌱 Language development 🌱 Inspiring role models

A big congratulations to ECS pupil Eliza who represented Exeter Cathedral School at the NSEA Show-jumping competition on Sunday – Eliza rode in two classes on two different ponies, called Frog and Parsnip, and came 5th in the higher class in a very competitive group!

Bumblebees (our Nursery pupils) are buzzing with creativity 🐝🎨 They had a blast drawing portraits of their friends and teachers on Tuesday! Skills developed: 🌱 Observation skills 🌱 Fine motor skills 🌱 Creativity and self-expression

Sign language is a beautiful and powerful form of communication 💙 Our Prep pupils learned a few signs this week with Mrs Ross during their assembly and loved it! We always strive to be an inclusive community, and so we create lots of opportunities to learn sign language.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

Today in Pre-Prep we have been finding out about Remembrance Day. We gathered together to watch the BBC's remembrance film – a beautiful and evocative animation that sees war as experienced by animals. We are very proud of the respect the pupils showed this morning.

O D D S O C K S D A Y 🧦 Activities this week will help to… Raise awareness about bullying Empower children to speak up Encourage empathy Teach conflict resolution skills Continue building a supportive community Create a lasting impact on children's well-being

Last month, ECS pupils took part in a drawing challenge called 'Inktober', creating 31 drawings in 31 days. With a prompt for each day, staff and pupils dipped into various days and completed a month of beautiful, clever and interesting pen drawings reflecting their chosen word.

All the best to Year 6 for their performance tonight of Macbeth! Here a few behind-the-scenes photos 👀 And many thanks to Miss Cooper for this stunning, bespoke backdrop created for the performance! A true creative inspiration for our pupils.

Last week, Pre-Prep enjoyed a very interesting assembly with ECS Parent, Dr Mehta, all about Diwali, including learning that Diwali is short for the festival’s full name, 'Deepawali'.

We are very excited to be taking part in this year's CyberFirst Competition which starts on 18th November. Pupils will get the chance to explore their passion for tech, computing science & learn more about the world of cyber security. #stretchandchallenge #ECSFuturesCareers #ICT

Year 6 had the opportunity this week to visit Budleigh Beach to experience and compare different micro climates, from city to coast 🌊☀️