On Thursday 17 May 2018, the BBC reported on the worrying lack of girls studying A-level Physics with an article entitled “How Physics gender gap starts in the classroom”. The article highlighted that in 2016 just 1.9% of girls chose A-level Physics and were outnumbered with four boys choosing Physics for every one girl. It
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Our thanks to Westonbirt School for hosting 12 of our students at the GSA Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Day on Monday 21 May 2018. It was a fantastic event featuring some excellent motivational speakers and workshops; we were very proud of our girls for asking such incisive questions and so thoroughly engaging themselves in the
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The girls in Upper 4 and Lower 5 (Years 9 & 10) thoroughly enjoyed the showing of ‘Embrace’ on Friday 18 May 2018 which we held as part of our Wellbeing Programme in recognition of Mental Health Awareness week. ‘Embrace’ is an exceptionally powerful film that focuses on body image and self-esteem with a strong
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The Year 6 students are certainly showing huge aptitude and confidence in their coding lessons this term and have been racing through their various tasks. So far, they have learned about strings and variables, creating code with while loops and then testing their code with emulators, before downloading their programmes to microbits. During the rest
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Our Lower 6 Geographers have returned to school feeling invigorated in their studies following three gloriously sunny days spent in the Yorkshire Dales from 14 – 16 May 2018. From investigating carbon stores, collecting hydrology data and undertaking various statistical tests in the grounds near Malham Tern, right through to visiting the Ribblehead valley survey
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Our Year Three had a great time at the Wembury Marine Centre on Tuesday 15 May 2018 where they were led by the Devon Wildlife Trust in numerous activities to discover the enormous variety of creatures that inhabit our seas. A session of rockpooling discovered many different species of crabs, starfish and creatures related to
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Huge congratulations to all 21 students who took part in and completed the Ten Tors Challenge over the weekend of 11-13 May 2018. Both of our 35-mile teams finished in very good times and, despite being given different routes, they crossed the line with only 20 minutes separating them. Equally, our very determined 45-milers kept
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The Summer Concert on Thursday 10 May 2018 was a somewhat nostalgic occasion, being the final public performances of our super talented Upper 6 girls but it proved a wonderful celebration of both them and their time at school. Almost half of the year group took to the stage in some guise, either as a
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We are so excited for Eleanor Simpson (Year 7) who has been selected onto the British show jumping team to compete at the Nations Cup in Austria over the weekend of 18-20 May 2018. At only 12 years old, Ellie will be the youngest member of the Children on Horses squad following a particularly successful
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There wasn’t a spare seat in the Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday 8 May, such is the reputation of the Pre-Prep and Junior School Gym and Dance Showcase. A packed audience was treated to class dances from Reception up to Year 6 with a wonderful array of themes from fairies, butterflies, crazy haired trolls, Scottish
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On Friday 11 May 2018, we hosted a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) challenge to which we welcomed five Year 8 teams from visiting schools, as well as fielding our own team. Delivered by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), the day turned out to be a whirlwind of activity and competition. The
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Thank you to everyone for supporting the Exeter Art Show over the weekend of 21-22 April 20-18. It was the biggest and best yet, breaking all previous records for sales. Early estimations suggest we have raised over £15,000 for YoungMinds, our charity partner, but we will confirm the exact figure just as soon as we
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Congratulations to all those girls who committed themselves so fully to the training for this year’s Ten Tors on 11-13 May. Dartmoor in winter is somewhat hostile but this never dampened the Maynard spirit and we are excited to have three strong teams, and one individual walking with another team, to cheer on over the
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Our annual Summer Concert, celebrating the incredible and varied talents of our senior musicians, will be taking place on Thursday 10 May at 7.30pm in the new Performing Arts Centre. In addition to the chamber choir, jazz band and orchestras, this is also an opportunity to hear our gifted Upper 6 musicians perform for the
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