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.

• 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.

• Recorder Celebration Day

  Thu 13 Mar 2014
  250 primary school recorder players playing together have to be heard to be believed! We joined up with 8 other primary schools in Rutland to play together. Last year we were a pilot recorder school for the Rutland Music Hub. We now all learn recorder at KS2 and we were delighted to join with other schools to meet Sarah Watts, who wrote the book we learn from, and to play some of her pieces together with her conducting. We were able to play with a live band, including a sousaphone! As ever, the children were a credit to the school and were a delight to be with. Their singing and playing was fantastic too!

• Tag Rugby

  Wed 12 Mar 2014

  A fantastic day was had by all in the sunshine at the tag rugby competition. See the pictures in the gallery section.

   

• Community Lunch

  Thu 13 Feb 2014
  The local community joined us to enjoy another delicious community lunch prepared by Lizzie. After enjoying roast beef followed by peach melba cheese cake our visitors were entertained by the children singing topically themed rain based songs and rhymes, as well as showing off our part singing! 
  
  The next community lunch is on Thursday 20th March at 1.30pm, and will be a Lenten lunch with soup as the main course.

• 'Wow' Day

  Mon 10 Feb 2014
  A great time was had by all, and some superb constructions were made! See the clubs and wow day page under 'class pages' for further information and pictures.

• County Cross Country

  Sat 08 Feb 2014
  Nearly half of our KS2 children took part in the County Cross Country Competition on Saturday. In bitter winds and very cold and wet conditions, they all did very well. A particular congratulations to Ben, who has been selected to represent Rutland for Year 6. 
  
  Many thanks to all the parents, family and friends who turned out to support, and in particular to our Chair of Governors, Alan Chalkley,  who acted as a marshall and to Mrs KK who was the team leader. Thanks must also go to John and Penny Richardson who came to school each week to help with the training.
  
  There are lots of pictures of our participants in the gallery in the children's section of the website.

• African Drumming Workshop

  Fri 07 Feb 2014
  Wow! What a fantastic set of workshops we had this morning. Keba was amazing and taught us all sorts of African Drumming patterns as well as playing games and teaching us pieces. Thank you to Rutland Music Hub for organising his visit. We will definitely be borrowing the County set of drums to try some more on our own!

  

• Basketball

  Wed 05 Feb 2014
  Congratulations to our fantastic team of year 5/6 pupils who came second in their section of the basketball competition! The team one two games and only lost the last by one basket. It was really close! Mrs KK and Mr Chalkley said that you were all a credit to the school in your playing, your sportsmanship and your behaviour!
  
  Onwards and upwards - a slight change of skills is now needed ready for the netball competition in March!