Pre-Prep Reflections Week 19 February 2025
Dear parents,
Please note that our phone lines and internet have been down today and are unlikely to be up and running again until later on Monday. Calls are being redirected to a mobile device. Please bear with us if we are unable to answer calls or reply to emails as promptly as usual.
Children’s Mental Health Week
This week we have been doing all sorts of exciting things to mark Children’s Mental Health Week. From special assemblies and daily story sessions to positive affirmations and whole school wellbeing walks after lunch, we hope the children have expanded their awareness of mental health and understanding of this year’s theme of ‘know yourself, grow yourself’. Thanks to Mrs Lawrence-Jones, our head of pastoral care, for leading the week’s events.
Poetry by Heart
This morning I had the pleasure of helping to judge the Poetry by Heart competition over at the junior school. It was wonderful to see the courage, enthusiasm and talent shining out of each and every performer, and a real treat to see so many former pre-prep children taking part. I was extremely proud of all of them and it was very difficult to choose just four entries to put through to the ‘freestyle’ final.
Next week
Next week, we look forward to welcoming prospective families along to our ‘school in action’ open morning on Tuesday. I will also be teaching the Year 1 and Year 2 children about Safer Internet Day in the afternoon. On Friday, we will be off timetable for the whole day as we celebrate International Day. The children will be grouped in their houses for a fun day of immersive workshops (and a few Valentine’s Day treats) before we pause for half term.
Strategic planning and parental forum next week
Thank you to the large number of parents who completed the Exeter School strategy survey online this week. This has now closed. It is not, however, too late to sign up for the parental forum to look at strategy on Tuesday 11 February at 6pm. If you are interested in coming along to look at the data from the survey and to workshop the ideas with us, to feed into the governors’ strategy review, we would love to see you. Please email me if you would like to attend and I will pass your name on.
Have a lovely weekend.
