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Welcome to Membury Primary Academy & Pre-School

We are a small school at the heart of our village community in rural East Devon where we create close, supportive relationships. We know all children and families individually and have high expectations of behaviour and attainment.

Heidi Wickens Head of School

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Dec 19, 2025

🎄We would like to wish all our children, families and local community a very happy Christmas.🎄 Our Christmassy week started with a very special visit from Father Christmas and his elves. We enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch with Christmas music, crackers and Christmas jumpers before our Carol Service in the church. Lovely singing and recorder playing from all. We also enjoyed a brilliant trip to #westlandsentertainmentvenue to see Beauty and the Beast. 🌟We thank you for all your support this past year and look forward to the new year. #smallschool #Membury #Christmas

Dec 12, 2025

🎄 What a fantastic #TeamWork effort today from our brilliant pupils at Membury! They joined forces to create beautiful ✨ Christingles ✨ for the village Christingle Service this Sunday at 3pm in the church. 🕯️ Everyone is welcome – come and celebrate! #Membury #smallschool #christingle

Dec 9, 2025

The deadline to apply for primary school is 15 January 2026. Call us at Membury Primary near Chard and Axminster to arrange a visit of this friendly, village school where we know families individually and can give your child the support they deserve. 01404 881491 or email office@membury-primary.devon.sch.uk.

Oct 1, 2025

🎨🔧 KS2 Designers at Work! 🛝✨ Our brilliant KS2 children have been busy in DT, designing and building their own playground structures! From swings and ziplines to imaginative slides, they've explored materials, stability, and creativity. 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ #STEMinAction #PrimaryDT #smallschool #firstfederationtrust #memburyprimary

Sep 30, 2025

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Sep 22, 2025

Last week, our Year 3 and 4 children got hands-on with their science learning, exploring the digestive system in a fun and interactive way. They learned about the different parts of the digestive system and how everything works together to help our bodies process food. There were brilliant questions, lots of curiosity, and a few giggles when things got a bit messy! #LearningThroughDoing #PrimaryScience #DigestiveSystem #firstfederation We have spaces in all year groups and would love to welcome you to look around our wonderful small school! Contact office@membury-primary.devon.sch.uk to organise your visit.

Sep 15, 2025

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Sep 10, 2025

We're really pleased to let everyone know our most recent Ofsted was Good in all areas! As a small school in a rural village, we're like a big family who can achieve great things. We have spaces available across all year groups so get in touch if you would like to arrange a visit, and share this post far and wide 😊 Call on 01404 881491 or email office@membury-primary.devon.sch.uk. Read more online: https://www.firstfederation.org/news/detail/membury-primary-is-good-in-all-areas-in-latest-ofs/

Jun 18, 2025

Another chance to view our new video which we've created to show people how wonderful our school community is at Membury Primary, and how proud we are of our pupils. Please feel free to share far and wide😊

May 21, 2025

We've created this video to show people how wonderful our small and friendly village school is at Membury Primary Academy, and how proud we are of our pupils and staff. Please share😊 Thanks to John Hodge, local photographer for giving us permission to use his photos of our beautiful countryside. Membury Village Notice Board

May 9, 2025

🍓🍌 DT Highlights This Week! 🛠️🏗️ KS1 had a fruit-tastic time applying their chopping and juicing skills to whip up delicious smoothies — healthy, hands-on fun! 🥤🍍 Meanwhile, KS2 got creative and constructive, building the frame structures of their pavilions. They explored how to join shapes and make them strong — future architects in the making! 🏕️🔧 Well done to all our budding designers and engineers! 👏✨

May 8, 2025

Today, we came together to honour the anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The children took part in discovering the significance of this historic day and why it continues to matter. They listened attentively to Winston Churchill’s iconic speech, gaining insight into the emotions and relief felt across the nation in 1945. We then celebrated with a joyful ‘street party’ style gathering, complete with music, decorations, and plenty of smiles! A wonderful way to remember, reflect, and celebrate together. #VEDay #LestWeForget #HistoryInTheMaking #ChurchillSpeech #StreetPartyCelebration

Mar 14, 2025

Contact us for more information on 01404 881491 or memburyoffice@acornacademy.org Visit www.firstfederation.org.uk/vacancies to apply

Mar 6, 2025

📚Today we celebrated World Book Day!📖 The children took part in an Ultimate Character Championship Battle where they developed their oracy skills to present their character. Monkey form Bunny vs Monkey by Jamie Smart won! Later, we held a book tasting to try some different books. Everyone found something new to read !📖 Keep on reading everyone! #worldbookday2025 #smallschool #Membury #reading

Jan 31, 2025

🎶We had great fun learning the ukulele with our visitors, Elfyn and Kip. In just one afternoon, we learnt to sing and play the chords for four songs, and each child had the opportunity to compose our own music! Our afternoon culminated in a 'mash-up' of the different songs we had learnt, which was great fun, and showed how much we had learnt as we switched between the different chords - sometimes really quickly!🎵 #ukulele #devonmusichub #smallschool #music

Jan 7, 2025

🏫Reception Applications!🏫 The deadline for applying for a Reception place is fast approaching! Make sure you have submitted your application by 15th January. https://www.devon.gov.uk/educationandfamilies/school-information/apply-for-a-school-place/apply-for-a-primary-school-place/ If you have not yet visited us, we would love to show you around our small and friendly village school.🌟

Jan 6, 2025

🎉 Happy New Year from Membury Primary Academy! 🎉 We have had a brilliant first day back exploring the challenges, continuous provision and role play areas. In English, we jumped in to learning about non-chronological reports with a monster theme! 🐉📚 #firstfederationtrust #smallschool

Dec 13, 2024

🎄Come and join us for carols and musical performances!🎄

Nov 22, 2024

What a week!🌟❄☃🌟 The children enjoyed learning the running stitch to sew their waistcoats earlier in the week. On Wednesday, we took part in the #rocktopus dance workshop at @Axminster Community Primary Academy. Today the children enjoyed the snowy playground at playtimes making snowmen and snow animals! ☃❄