Exminster Hospital Project

Welcome to Exminster Community Primary School

Thank you for your interest in our school. The children, staff, parents and governors have created our Rainbow Values at Exminster Community Primary School.

The EPICentre of Learning.

Enjoyment

We want every child to enjoy coming to school, to feel secure in their friendships and to be happy to learn.

Potential

We aim to help every child reach and exceed their full potential through providing a rich and varied range of learning opportunities within a broad and balanced curriculum. Learning is planned in every class to meet all needs. We aim to find children’s strengths and use these within school to develop children’s confidence and love of learning. ‘Be the best that we can be’.

Inclusion

We pride ourselves in being a highly inclusive school. Inclusion is about adapting for the needs of our learners – however minor or major their needs may be. This has benefits for all learners, learning to celebrate our differences and individuality.

Community

Exminster Community Primary School plays an integral part in life of our village. We maintain a strong family village school ethos. We feel it is essential that children develop an understanding of our school family, our local family, our national family and our international family. Diversity and respect are a golden thread within all that we do.

We had a very interesting afternoon working with two visiting artists Nicci and Tat. They have been sharing stories and information about Exminster Hospital with us. We listened to the story of 'Laura' and 'Sophie May'. Both were patients at the hospital, one in the 1940s and the other in the 1960s. Nicci and Tat showed us a role play of 'Laura' and her doctor. It was interesting to discuss Laura's illness and how she was feeling. We then wrote letters in role as if we were 'Sophie'. She was a patient suffering from ' extreme melancholia' who had been told off for picking flowers from the hospital grounds. Eva said ' This made me feel really sad because her brother has to hope that she is OK and rely on the hospital to take good care of her.' Hayden said, ' Sophie's story made me feel very sad for her. I wanted to know what happened to her.' We are all looking forward to our next workshop. Thank you Nicci and Tat.

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