Whole School Gymnastics Competition 

Over the next few weeks there is an opportunity to take part in a gymnastics competition for all children from Reception to Year 6. 

All the information can be found here.  

The aim is to choose the routine best suited to your ability and then record yourself completing the routine and then send it to me, with your name and class. Every entry will be awarded a certificate.  My aim is for every child to take part as part of our active school incentive. 

For those children in KS2 who wish to compete at Dawlish Community College.  Mr Pinnock and I will be selecting students from each year group and level to represent our school at Dawlish Community College in April. If you wish to be considered please make this clear when sending in your entry. 

Due to the data size of emails please send via the platform https://wetransfer.com/ (This is a very user friendly platform which is helpful for sending larger video files) 

Entries must be sent to 

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

The closing date is Wednesday 2nd March 2022.

Please ensure that you are supervised if watching the gymnastic videos on youtube. 

Enjoy:) 

Mrs Barr  

 

Reception KIRFs (PDF)

Year 1 KIRFs (PDF)

Year 2 KIRFs (PDF)

Year 3 KIRFs (PDF)

Year 4 KIRFs (PDF)

Year 5 KIRFs (PDF)

Year 6 KIRFs (PDF)

This week, Year 5 invited Year 3 to visit a Living Museum. Celebrating the end of our Magnificent Mayan research, we wanted to share our learning and make the most of our GOAL time. We chose an area of our learning to focus on. For example, the modern maya and we spent time teaching Year 3 all about it. We created mayan codes for them to crack, learnt how to weave hair like mayan women, designed posters about the stars and how the maya used them and even taught Year 3 how to weave placemat!

Sophie, Year 3 said: "My favourite part was learning to weave a placemat. I can't wait to finish it at home"

Scarlett, Year 5 said: " I loved having Year 3 up because we could tell them new things that they might not know yet"

Year 5 are now looking forward to sharing their Mayan learning in their class assemblies on 8th November (5N) and 10th November (5V).

Cassie Patten visited our school today, inspiring our pupils in sporting achievements and demonstrating our Rainbow Values.  Cassie is an Olympic Bronze medalist for 10k open water swimming.  She told pupils about her potential and realising that she had a talent in swimming even though there were other areas of learning she really struggled with.  She talked about her motivation and how she never gave up.  She showed us a short video clip of her achievement in the Olympics and even had her medal to show us.  The children loved hearing about her jellyfish story and how Cassie has achieved her sporting success.

A huge thank you to Cassie for inspiring us all and showing us how we can put our minds to something and succeed.

Thanks to Jess (Y5) for sending in the winning video clip and to the Dartmoor Schools' Partnership for this opportunity.

Last week we were kindly given some tomato plants and courgette plants from Rosie Grimwood's Granddad, so after a very sunny weekend they needed planting up at the allotment. The runner beans that the allotment club planted have grown so much that they needed to go into the pre-prepared bed where Jack and Thomas had built one of the bean frames. This, with a lot of watering and a little bit of weeding made for a very busy lunchtime!

This term we have many extra-curricular clubs on offer for children across every year group. Here is a list of the clubs that have been offered this term:

 

Teacher	Club & year group	Day, time and place
Mr Wilsher	Year 3/4 Football	Tuesday 12:00-12:35pm Meet in 4W. Shin-pads are essential in order for your child to take part in this club. They can bring full football kit to wear too. Max. 16 children.
Mr Mammola	KS2 Basketball Club	Tuesday 3:30-4:15pm Meet in 4M. Max. 16 children.
Mr Slingsby	Year 2 Tag Rugby	Wednesday 3:30-4:15 Meet in 1S Max. 14 children.
Mrs Pike	KS2 Allotment & Gardening	Thursday 3:30-5:00 Meet outside Year 4 Max. 10 children.
Mr Phillips	Year 5/6 Football	Tuesday 3:30-4:15 Meet in 6MN. Already selected – no spaces available.
Mr Moore	KS2 Maths Games Club	Monday 12:00-12:40 Meet in 3BM. This is a drop in club so children are not required to return a form.
Mrs Norris/Mrs Sydenham	KS2 Drama Club This club will start on Tuesday 3rd May.	Tuesday 3:30-4:15 Meet in 4W. Max. 20 children.
Mrs Miller	Reception & Year 1 Football This club will start on Friday 6th May	Friday 12:30-1:00 Meet in RLM. Max. 20
Mr Herring/Mr Preston	KS2 Cricket Club	Monday 12:00-12:35 Meet in 6HJ. Max. 18
Mrs Nowell	KS2 Girls Striking & Fielding Club	Friday 12:00-12:30 Meet in 6MN. Max 18
Mr Gould	Exe Schools’ Orchestra	Monday 4:30-5:30pm School Hall Please email Mr Gould directly or see Mrs MacDonald for more information about this club. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mrs Coville/Mrs Miller	KS1 Reading Club	Friday 12:20-12:45 Meet in 2CS. This is a drop in club so children are not required to return a form.
Mrs Badcott/Miss Vass	Reading Ambassador Club	Wednesday 12:20-12:50 Meet in the Library. Children already selected
Mrs Lewis	Drawing Club Any year group	Tuesday 12:30 – 12:55 Meet in RLM. This is a drop in club so children are not required to return a form. The club will be capped at 20 children for each week.
Mrs MacDonald	Year 6 Club (Runs until Half Term)	Monday 12:00 – 12:30 Meet in 6MN. This is a drop in club so children are not required to return a form.
Mrs MacDonald	School Radio Club	Tuesday 12:30 – 12:55 The Radio Team has already been selected for this club. However, if your child would like to share something on the school radio, please see somebody from the Radio Team.
Mrs Witcomb & Mrs Munslow	Knitting and  Crochet Club Any year group	Wednesday 12:30 – 12:55 Meet outside Year 4. This is a drop in club so children are not required to return a form.

We have followed some instructions to make a hat for when we celebrate the Queen's birthday this afternoon.

We have followed instructions on how to grow cress and wrote about what we needed.

On Wednesday 9th March, 12 children from Exminster School took part in a gymnastics competition at South Dartmoor Community College.

There were 6 children in a Year 3/4 team and 6 children in a Year 5/6 team.

 

The children had to perform a floor routine and a vault exercise, which they had been practising and learning over the last few weeks.

They all performed extremely well and should be extremely proud of their performances.

 

Both teams won their categories and were absolutely delighted with the result.

 

They have cartwheeled themselves into the regional finals to be held on Wednesday 16th March at Newton Abbot Gymnastics Club.

Congratulations and good luck to all of the team!

In addition to the clubs we run at school, Premier Sport come in to run a Gymnastics Club afterschool on a Monday, and a KS1 Football Club afterschool on a Thursday. If you'd like any more information regarding these clubs please follow the link:

https://www.premier-education.com/for-families/search-for-activities-near-you?location=exminster&activity=&hol=1&eve=1&exc=1

or alternatively call their office on: 07711 788525.

This term Year 3 were asked to create a presentation on Diversity to share with the rest of the class. The presentations were brilliant and there was such a range on show, from food tasting to dance videos. It was a great afternoon!

Read more: Year 3 Diversity

Coming Soon!