The Year 6 girls in the Junior School certainly stepped up to the plate with a wonderful adaptation of The Tempest on Tuesday 28 March 2017. Anything Shakespeare at this young age can be a little daunting but the entire year put in some remarkable performances, quite undeterred by the magnitude of the challenge. Without
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Joyous Spring Concert
What an incredible Spring Concert we witnessed on Thursday 23 March with over 80 girls taking part from Year 6 right through to the Sixth Form! A packed audience was privy to a huge array of performances from the slick timing of the flautists to exuberant song and dance from the younger pupils. There were
Read MoreBeautiful weather graces the Ten Tors and DofE training weekend
Our Ten Tors teams and Duke of Edinburgh girls enjoyed a rare weekend of sunshine, if at times it was a little chilly, on Dartmoor over the weekend of 25/26 March 2017. More accustomed to driving rain, hail or a ferocious wind this was a rare treat and the girls dug deep to finish some
Read MorePre-Prep Mother’s Day Tea Party
Our Pre-Prep girls hosted a wonderful Mother’s Day Tea Party on Monday 27 March 2017. Mums were treated to a poem recital and two lovely songs by their daughters, who had also made beautiful personalised placemats and gave out bunches of daffodils, before a delicious afternoon tea. It was a perfect afternoon and a lovely
Read MoreIsabel Board wins swimming gold and bronze
Congratulations to Isabel Board in Year 5, who won a gold medal in the 200m backstroke and a bronze for the 200m freestyle at the Tiger Bay Open Meet in Cardiff on 18-19 March 2017. Isabel swims in the Competitive Development Squad for the Exeter Swimming Club but rarely has the opportunity to compete in
Read MoreGeographers visit Snowdonia
The Lower Sixth geographers enjoyed four very full days in the breathtaking scenery of Snowdonia over 10 – 13 March 2017. From exploring upland and lowland glaciation, through to measuring till cliffs on the North Wales coast to find evidence of the direction of ice flow, there was plenty to investigate in this diverse landscape
Read MoreJess and Shweta excel in Intermediate Mathematical Challenge
Following excellent results and a gold certificate in February’s UK Intermediate Mathematical Challenge, Jess Carr (Upper 5) and Shweta Banerjee (Upper 4) qualified to join an elite group of young mathematicians in the next round of the Challenge, which took place on Thursday 16 March. Over 250,000 students from more than 3,000 schools and colleges
Read MoreDavid Hockney inspires GCSE and A-level artists
Students studying GCSE and A-level art have enjoyed a fantastic trip to London to see the David Hockney retrospective at Tate Britain. As the fastest-selling exhibition in the Tate’s history (and the largest to ever be staged there), it had a lot to live up to but our girls certainly weren’t disappointed, returning home fuelled
Read MoreSuper Sporting Saturday – Maynard girls compete in two National Championships
Super Saturday saw our Under 14 Netball team, the Devon County Champions, compete in the National Schools Final at Welwyn Garden City, whilst Amelia Moody (Lower 5) was running her biggest race ever at the National Schools Cross Country Championships in Norwich. Given Amelia trains on Dartmoor, and was more than prepared for a hilly
Read MoreSilver Medalists in the Jui Jitsu National Championships
Nicky and Natalie Charity (Upper 4 and Upper 3 respectively) travelled to Wolverhampton on Sunday 5 March for the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu National Championships and both made the long journey worthwhile, returning home as silver medallists! Nicky won three very difficult fights and on her last one, deciding the gold medal, she was desperately unlucky,
Read MoreAnnual field trip to Snowdonia
Our Lower 6 Geographers spent four days exploring the beautiful landscape of Snowdonia from 10 – 13 March on their annual fieldtrip. Work included looking at human geography fieldwork techniques in Betws Y Coed, exploring upland Glaciation up at the Nant Ffrancon valley and exploring the work of glaciers at Cwm Idwal. Sunday was spent
Read MoreCatherine Fraser Memorial Football Tournament
Our U14 football team had a fantastic afternoon at the Catherine Fraser Memorial Football Tournament, held at the University of Exeter on Friday 10 March. The tournament, organised by Exeter City FC and Football in the Community, saw more than 140 girls from 14 secondary schools across the south west competing against each other in
Read MoreBasketball success!
Our U14 basketball team took part in the Dynamik National Schools Tournament on Tuesday 14 March. They played extremely well, displaying some excellent teamwork and winning 53-39 against very strong opposition from Bristol Metropolitan Academy. They are now through to the next round of the competition which will take place later this term.
Read MoreBritain needs Scientists
On Wednesday 8 March, ten Lower 5 girls attended the Britain Needs Scientists event at the University of Exeter. This was an exciting conference, aimed to promote degrees and careers in science by giving students the chance to meet several undergraduate and postgraduate scientists in a ‘speed dating’ format. There was also an interactive science
Read MoreWorld Book Day Celebrations
We celebrated World Book Day in style this year with numerous activities going on throughout the school. Highlights included amazing fancy dress in the Pre-Prep and Junior School, teachers and students reading excerpts from their favourite books in assembly, form room doors decorated as book covers and a Winnie the Pooh treasure hunt! We were
Read More‘Beauty and the Beast’ – our wonderful School Production 2017
Our fantastic school production, Beauty and the Beast, took place on 1, 2 and 3 March 2017 at the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter and what an absolutely brilliant production it was! The show was run with two casts, all of whom displayed tremendous talent and energy on-stage, and performances were sold-out each evening, with a
Read MoreGruelling Stover Cross Country
A huge well done to all our junior girls who took part in the Stover Prep Schools Cross Country races on Tuesday 28 February. Without exception, they all tried their absolute hardest over some really testing courses. Our Under 9 team finished in 4th place with some amazing individual performances, including Ava Hepburn who finished
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