Welcome to Axminster Community Primary Academy

Oct 23, 2025

We are looking forward to our first learning showcase of the year on Monday 3rd November at 3pm. Please come to the main school doors and sign in to go and visit your child's classroom and celebrate their learning.

Oct 23, 2025

We are all embracing the autumnal changes. Look at this incredible independent writing at home from one of our Year 2s today!

Oct 23, 2025

During the art lessons, the children in Eagles and Hawks have been focusing on producing detailed sketches of something from nature, before making their 2D wire structures. Once the children had created their 2D pieces, they then re-evaluated their designs before planning their 3D ideas. Making the wire sculptures tested some of the children's resilience and adult support was needed on occasion but these pieces look fabulous. We cannot wait for the finished 3D sculptures after half term!

Oct 22, 2025

We came into school on Monday to an autumnal scene of pumpkins, leaves, facts and stories. We have been pumpkin detectives and have written a non-chronological report about them and the season. In Maths, we have used Numicon and tens frame to help us practise our bonds to 10.

Oct 22, 2025

🌋🎶 Science in Action! 🎶🌋 This week, our classrooms were buzzing with creativity and curiosity! 🪨 Year 3 explored how rocks are formed by using modelling clay to represent different layers. They pressed together colourful “sediments” to create their own rock formations — a brilliant hands-on way to see the science of sedimentary rocks come to life! 🎵 Year 4/5 wrapped up their learning on sound with an amazing musical instrument project using recycled materials. From pots and boxes turned into drums, to guitars made from tubes, boxes and rubber bands, and even flutes crafted from straws — the classroom was alive with rhythm and imagination! Well done to all our budding scientists and inventors for their fantastic teamwork and creativity! 👏💡 #PrimaryScience #CreativeLearning #STEM #EcoFriendly #HandsOnLearning

Oct 21, 2025

As our first half term comes to an end, the Robins and Starlings classes have been busy continuing with their learning about seasons and autumn. This week we are reading ‘Leaf Man’ and have been having lots of fun and being incredibly creative, making our own characters using natural resources. Both Reception and Year 1 have been enjoying this, and the Year 1s have been using this as inspiration for their upcoming independent writing later this week 🍁 We have all been busy this week again, developing our fine motor skills by practising our mark making and cutting skills through a range of activities. The children have been showing off their creativity through observational drawings of pumpkins 🎃 Year 1 this week are using their learning about part-whole models to form addition number sentences to represent the parts and wholes - they’re doing extremely well. This half term we have been blown away by how well the receptions have settled into big school and how hard they have been working and progressing! And we’re also incredibly proud of our Year 1s who have come back to school with a fantastic can-do attitude and have adapted brilliantly to the new way of learning! Well done everyone ⭐️ #EYFS #YearOne #learnthroughplay

Oct 21, 2025

🎃👻 It’s been a spook-tacular week in nursery! The children have been busy getting into the Halloween spirit—making their very own spiders, spinning spooky spider webs, and even mixing up some magical potions in the garden! 🕷🕸🧪 As we wrap up our first half term, it’s been wonderful to see how well all the children have settled in and how much they’re enjoying the activities. Next up, we’re diving into our new topic: ‘Once Upon a Rhyme’! We'll be singing nursery rhymes and exploring fairy tale fun with themed tuff tray adventures each week.

Oct 19, 2025

Does your child enjoy being creative? The Minster Church have a bookmark workshop on 1st November - please book with them if you are interested.

Oct 18, 2025

Does your child start Reception in September 2026? We would love to show you our warm, welcoming school with incredible grounds and caring staff on Wednesday afternoon at 4pm. If this time isn't convenient to you, please contact the office to organise an individual tour on 01297 33005 or office@axminster-primary.devon.sch.uk

Oct 18, 2025

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Oct 16, 2025

Thank you to everyone who commented to help us win daffodil bulbs from Otter Nurseries - we are delighted to have won these and the children will love planting them and watching them grow each Spring. Huge thanks to Otter Garden Centres for their very kind donation!

Oct 16, 2025

Look at how super fit our children are in Eagles and Hawks classes! A carousel of activities were set for the children to test their stamina, upper body strength and coordination. The photos show that they were thoroughly enjoying the session - especially the timekeeper!

Oct 16, 2025

This week Year 1 & 2 have started to design their own buildings so they can create a print. They looked carefully at the shapes on Christopher Wren's buildings and then used these to design their own buildings - we have been architects. In English, we have created our own bird characters so that we can write a story in the style of the well known book "Owl Babies" We used comparative adjectives - using the suffix -er to compare the different birds.

Oct 16, 2025

🎵 Future Musicians in the Making! 🎵 Our talented Foxes, Badgers and Otters students have been busy preparing for their upcoming production this November, and we couldn’t be prouder of their progress! 🎶 The Foxes have been mastering melodies on the recorders, 🎶 The Badgers have been creating harmony with the glockenspiels, and 🎶 The Otters have been bringing the rhythm to life using boomwhackers. It’s been wonderful to see their confidence grow and their musical skills shine. Keep up the fantastic work, Future Musicians — we can’t wait to see (and hear!) your hard work come together! 🌟👏

Oct 14, 2025

In Robins and Starlings class we’ve been extremely busy and excited about our learning this week so far. We are reading the book ‘Tree’ and continuing with our learning about seasons and seasonal changes. The children have been loving telling their own autumnal stories in the tuff tray, painting their own autumn trees and creating their own nature themed faces! 🍁🍂 We have been busy in maths with our number recognition and counting skills, reading numbers to 10 and counting conkers to represent an amount. Alongside of this, the children have been working hard in phonics with their sounds and letter formation and we’re seeing so much progress already when it comes to their independent writing/letter formation - it’s wonderful seeing how enthusiastic the children are about their learning! Our Year 1s have also been extremely busy over the past couple of days in art, we’ve been practising the skill of printing and we have been experimenting creating different prints and patterns. And in science we built and tested different materials for a house for the 3 little pigs! 🐷 It has been a real joy seeing how well the children have settled over the last 6 weeks and already how much they’re progressing in their learning! #EYFS #KS1 #learnthroughplay #continuousprovision #understandingtheworld

Oct 13, 2025

Our focus in Nursery has been maths and numbers. The children have had lots of counting practice and are learning to match objects to number. Well done Little Acorns!

Oct 10, 2025

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Oct 9, 2025

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Oct 9, 2025

Year 5&6 are studying 'Living Things and their Habitats' in Science. In Year 5 we've been learning about conservation so we've made posters about endangered species and the efforts made to save them. In Year 6 we've been describing unusual creatures based on their characteristics. Can you spot the different animals in each picture?

Oct 9, 2025

We are looking forward to Hello Yellow day tomorrow. Children can come to school in school uniform adding yellow accessories.

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