A regular round up of events...
Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a lovely Christmas break. This is just a quick reminder for any parents of KS3 children who want to attend the school trip next Monday 13th January to the cathedral and St Nicholas Priory, a Tudor house in the centre of Exeter. Key Stage 3 will be learning all about what life was ...
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The autumn term ended with a Christmas assembly, a great opportunity for everyone in our little community to get together before the holidays. KS2 performed a nativity organised by Mrs Dooley and accompanied on the piano by Mrs Bastone. There was a brief moment when it looked like baby Jesus might not be there for his ...
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This week seven children were selected to represent the Magdalen Court School U13's futsal team (five playing at any one time and two in reserve). Mr Blackmore ordered a new kit and everyone was excited as they boarded the mini bus and headed out to St Luke's C of E High School. The newly formed team played four short ...
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Autumn is such a great time of year to get creative and everyone has been busy doing just this. KS4 have started rehearsals for their abridged performance of Philip Pullman's adaptation of Frankenstein in Drama lessons. We can't wait to see the end result. Lots of hard work and enthusiasm is going into it! Mr Cotter ha...
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Half term is already a blur as we whizzed into the first week back at school. School reopened with a larger classroom for Miss Dooley which now has its own kitchen area and toilet. This is an amazing learning space for the children into which they are settling well. If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet do pop your...
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The whole school is currently engaged in the additional activity of willow making! All pupils have contributed this autumn term to making the most delightful, three-dimensional deer sculptures which can be seen grazing outdoors in the front raised bed and will be a semi-permanent feature. The weaving is being led by p...
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We are extremely lucky as a school to have the support of one of our pupil’s uncles, who owns a farm with an extensive orchard.Throughout the year the children have made several trips to the farm to watch the apples grow from blossom to form buds and find out more about the different varieties, the growing cycle, and h...
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This term, the children have begun looking at coding with Mr Bolton, our new IT teacher. Students across the key stages have been exploring block-based coding in Scratch. The aim is that by half term they will be confident enough to begin to develop simple games or animations. Scratch is used in many schools as a tool ...
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This week the school corridors rang with Spanish as we welcomed fifteen language students to the school and the children continued their wild swimming with the sea being the theme for the week. Mr Cotter's drama classes got off to a flying start, with children who previously thought drama was not for them thoroughly en...
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The Department of Adventure started its new run of monthly camps this week, giving students the opportunity to spend a night under canvas, wild camping, once a month throughout the year.Students and staff leave school on a Thursday evening, drive in the minibus and backpack to an ideal spot where they set up camp, eat ...
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