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.

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Fossil Hunting at Charmouth

Year 3 enjoyed a fantastic day at Charmouth Coast Heritage Centre!

We learnt all about the prehistoric sea-life that once inhabited the ocean covering large parts of Devon. Our guides showed us how these amazing creatures became fossilised, before gradually becoming exposed by erosion. We got to see some authentic fossils up close- very exciting!

After a short safety briefing, it was time to fossil hunt for ourselves. Our guides led us to a secluded spot on Charmouth beach well known for fossil abundance and so it proved- every single person found something amazing; be it a belemnite (ancient squid remains), ammonite (in fools gold or beef rock variety) or a crinoid (relative of starfish and sea cucumbers, also called sea lilys). A couple found superb crystal geodes and one child was even lucky enough to find a 50 million year old fossilised sea urchin- something our guides had never seen before!

We got incredibly lucky with the weather, not only because the sun made a rare appearance but also because the recent extreme weather had exposed so many treasures. Thank you to the children; who  did our school proud with their enjoyment and engagement; to the parent helpers and to the wonderful guides at the heritage centre. They run regular fossil walks out of Charmouth Coast Heritage Centre and we would thoroughly recommend it as a fun educational activity for families! 


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