Last week, Pre-school were visited by Marie from Animals 2 U South West. Marie brought with her hissing cockroaches, a crested gecko, bearded dragon and two very friendly tortoises. The children enjoyed learning lots of new facts about these amazing animals and some were even brave enough to touch them!
The children enjoyed a special PE day of cricket last week with visiting coach Niall Leahy. Learning the skills of batting and fielding, each class had a session with Niall and can now build on this great introduction in PE lessons later in the term.
World Book Day this year is Thursday 7th March. We will be celebrating in school with special activities in classes, and the children will be given their World Book Day book token that can be spent in most bookshops, or at the Scholastic Book Fair that will be in school the following week. The book…
Our Razorbills had a great time working with Alistair creating some amazing artwork of the estuary birds our classes are named after. They took their work from 2D collage to 3D dioramas using some complex techniques and learning how to really make their work stand out! We would like to say a big thank you…
A team of Year 5 and 6 girls from Starcross took part in a football tournament at TCS last week. The girls represented our school brilliantly and came third in their pool – a fantastic result! With each team playing in at least five challenging games in a round robin style tournament, the girls showcased…
A fantastic SEND festival took place for the Teignmouth Learning Community. Hazeldown, Exminster, Starcross and Ellen Tinkham showed fantastic resilience, teamwork and enthusiasm to venture into each station. There were six stations: archery, boccia, target throwing, beach ball volleyball, springboard jumping and striking darts. All pupils had a go on each station developing a variety…