Read below to find out more about some of the different activities we have been getting up to; from sporting and musical activities, to visitors and 'wow' days. We are looking forward to helping our children 'explore and grow' further in 2025-26.

• Wildflower Meadows

  Sun 15 Jun 2014
  We have all really enjoyed learning the songs for Wildflower Meadows; the piece of music commissioned by Arts for Rutland for the primary schools of Rutland to sing at the Mobilisation event at Kendrew Barracks.
  
  We were all able to join in singing with some other schools in Rutland in the preceding week at Oakham Chapel, ably conducted by Mr Davis.
  
  Some of us then joined with other children to give up the end of our Sunday Afternoon for the World Premiere performance. The sound was amazing, and it was a great experience.

• Foeg's meeting

  Tue 10 Jun 2014
  The next FOEG's meeting is taking place in the community room at 2.30pm on Tuesday 10th June - all welcome.

• Kingswood update

  Thu 22 May 2014
  The children had a good night's sleep. Everyone is fine, behaving and having lots of fun. Yesterday's activities included: zip wire, swimming, low ropes, crate stacking, team tech and tam challenge. Some did abseiling and our evening entertainment was Mini Olympics, which was pure entertainment! The weather has been fantastic. We did have heavy rain over night, but it's now dry, though a bit chilly. We have just eaten breakfast and we are prepping for our first activity.

• Rutland Primary School Swimming Gala

  Thu 01 May 2014
  Congratulations to all the children who took part in the Swimming Gala this week. After some initial heats against local schools, we were represented in four races at semi-final level and Jacob made it through to the final in both his races. Congratulations to Andrew for 5th place in his heat for the front crawl, narrowly missing out on a place in the semi-final. Elijah made it through to the Year 6 semi-finals for butterfly and breast stroke, eventually coming 8th in the county for butterfly and 12th for breast stroke. Congratulations. Jacob competed in the finals for back crawl and front crawl. He came 6th in the county for front crawl, and narrowly missed out on a medal position, coming 4th, for back crawl. Not only were the boys excellent in the water, but they were a pleasure to be with on the side of the pool.

• We're 'feeling good'!

  Sun 27 Apr 2014
  We're delighted that Exton and Greetham CE Primary School has maintained its "good" ranking and garnered many positive comments following its latest visit from the education watchdog. Inspectors found "The school prepares pupils well as they move through the Early Years, Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2". Inspectors particularly commended "the warm and welcoming atmosphere that values all pupils. Attractive displays, an emphasis on the arts and good use of resources all add to the good teaching observed." 
  
  Because the school is small, the children, aged from 4 to 11, learn to mix socially and academically with students outside of their own year group. Indeed the report comments on the youngest children making "good progress in their personal, social and emotional development and learn well from being in a class with pupils from year 1 and 2" and praised the "deeply caring environment and thorough understanding that all adults have of individual children's needs." 
  
  We are proud of all the achievements and the work that the children do within the school community and beyond. The report notes, "The school seeks to work with the wider community and is involved in raising funds for the local church and different charities. The school is proud of being the only recipient in Rutland of a national singing award." 
  
  We are delighted that Ofsted recognised the many wonderful things that happen at our school. We are a small village school who pride ourselves on our family ethos. The school has been recognised as a good school with well-behaved, hardworking children and supportive staff and governors. As a small school national test results can be affected by individual children, and it is great that the inspectors recognised how we work with every individual to ensure that the all reach their personal potential.

• Easter Celebrations

  Thu 03 Apr 2014
   Our Easter Day started with our Easter Service in Greetham Church. This told the story through the Easter alphabet. Key Stage 2 children led us through the story with clear reading and diction and shared some wonderful art work. Key Stage 1 joined in for some hearty singing. After lunch we had our traditional egg rolling. Congratulations to our winning egg rollers. It was nice that 4 of the 6 winning eggs were 'home laid'; and particularly good that 2 of those were from chicks hatched at school last year! The staff rolled crème eggs. It should be noted that these roll fairly consistently, all credit to the manufacturers! Egg and spoon races followed the egg rolling, and this was followed by our Crème Egg Hunt on the school field. There was some excellent team work with older children helping the younger children. Then there was just enough time to enjoy our Crème Eggs in the sunshine before hometime. One of our school values is 'honesty'. Today has shown what honest children we have. The children also search for Starburst sweets during the Crème Egg Hunt. There were 3 each this year, but we failed to find 5. (These children were topped up from a bag of spares!) During the playtime 3 children each found one of the missing Starburst sweets, and instead of eating their find, brought them to the teachers for safe keeping. Well done.

• Spotlight Dance

  Thu 27 Mar 2014
  Most of our KS2 children took part in our Spotlight Dance this year. 'Kung Fu Fighting' was the theme this year, and we are very grateful for the loan of our costumes. The children really looked the part in their martial arts tops, and Elijah even volunteered to dress up as Kung Fu Panda! The Spotlight Show this year was split into three shorter shows, and we were in the second performance each night. The children danced brilliantly and their behaviour backstage was exemplary. We may have been the only school where some children asked to listen to their teacher reading them a story while waiting for their turn to dance! Many thanks to all those parents who made the effort to transport their children over to Uppingham Theatre for both nights.

• Recorders Through the Ages

  Tue 25 Mar 2014
  It is always a delight to welcome members of the community into the school. Today we were visited by Clare and Peter Hitchcox, who brought some of their recorders to share with us. The children listened beautifully and enjoyed listening to the sounds the different recorders made, as well as how the music written for recorder has changed over the centuries. We only have 4 notes at present in our recorder playing - but maybe one day one of us will be in our local primary school demonstrating our skill! Many thanks to Clare and Peter for giving up their time.

• Sports Relief

  Fri 21 Mar 2014

  Wow! At current counting, we have raised over £250 for Sports Relief. Mrs Davis set us a target of £100 and we surpassed all her expectations! Every child took part in our 'lap challenge' of the field. Everyone completed at least 10 laps. Our highest lap count was over 50; well done Ben! What a great selection of pyjamas and onesies you have as well!

   

• Life Education Van Visit

  Mon 17 Mar 2014
  It was lovely to have the Life Education Van visit us here at Exton. All the children had the opportunity to visit the van and take part in some activities looking at keeping ourselves healthy and well.