Congratulations to Harleigh in Lower 4, who competed at the South West Acrobatic Gymnastics Championships at the weekend. She and her trio won Gold and are now South West Champions at Grade 3 level – this is only the second competition for this trio so is a great start to the competition season! Well done!

Year 4 had a brilliant time at the Bristol Science Museum, ‘We the Curious’ last week. They explored all the hands-on science exhibits and also spent some time working on different types of animations based on the work of Nick Park. A fabulously fun (and educational) day out!

The Under 8s and Under 9s had a great time at the Hockey Festival hosted by Exeter Cathedral School last week. Both teams really enjoyed playing multiple matches and gaining some experience of a proper hockey match. They are looking forward to their fun, friendly fixture against Exeter School this week to finish off their first half term of hockey.

Good luck to the Upper Five GCSE Drama students who will be performing their absolutely outstanding devised pieces tonight (Friday) for their final exams. The theme is ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ and the performances are both very clever and excellently executed.

Scientific studies have proven that dogs can reduce stress, anxiety and depression and we are thrilled to have a good core of canines at The Maynard who bring so much joy and happiness to our entire school community. Parents of girls in the Pre-Prep and Junior School will be familiar with the lovely Nula, a

We said #HelloYellow on Thursday 10 October to show our support for World Mental Health Day by wearing a yellow accessory to school. The Pre-Prep girls also enjoyed a group mindfulness session using the mindfulness programme Headspace which we use across the Pre-Prep and Junior School with their soft toys from home. 

Our Hockey teams are continuing to impress with the U18s winning 2-1 against Blundells 2nd X1 earlier this week. They play their next round tournament in November.  Meanwhile the U11s played St Peters Lympstone with the A’s winning 2-0 and the Bs winning 3-2. Great team play for their first games of the season! The A team

Fresh from the House music competition last week, Sixth Formers Alyssa, Thalia and Emily raced down to Plymouth Pavilions to perform alongside the rock group ‘The Kaizens’ as members of the Devon Youth Symphony Orchestra. They performed ten pieces with the band; a truly amazing experience.  With a mosh pit, lighting effects and sound mixing

Year 3 had a fantastic visit to Kents Cavern in Torquay as part of their Stone Age topic. They learned about stalagmites and stalactites, saw cave art and even became archaeologists digging for gems! They visited the Cave of Inscriptions and the Labyrinth to see examples of the earliest tools ever found in Britain, and

Following the success of the House Song and Junior School Showcase it was the turn of musicians from Upper 3 – Upper 4 to showcase their talent on Wednesday evening. There was a wonderful selection of soloists with vocal performances from different genres and a chance to hear a harp, trumpet and the violin. Well

Many congratulations to our first Accelerated Reader word millionaires for this school year! Ita is the first word millionaire in the senior school, and Sasha is the first in the junior school. To become a word millionaire, girls need to pass Accelerated Reader quizzes on books which contain a total of over one million words.

Mrs Smith, our Head of Junior Music spent 3 days in Normandy last week conducting the Chivenor Military Ladies Choir.  The choir sang at the American Cemetery above Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer, gave a concert at Ste Mere Eglise and also performed at Pegasus Bridge; it also visited Arromanches and laid wreaths at Bayeux Cemetery. 

We had such fun at the annual House Song competition, which, this year had a ‘Queen’ theme! The overall collaboration with very senior girls working with all of the lower years is what makes such Whole School House events so special.  The challenge was met with enormous enthusiasm by all of the houses and, as ever,

The Junior School’s annual One World Week took place from 30 September – 4 October, with a focus this year on the power of language.  Around the Junior School and Pre-Prep the girls have been celebrating different cultures and languages – there has been Brazilian dance, sign language learned, contentious world trading games, stories from

What a fabulous musical afternoon we had for the annual Year 5 and 6 Showcase!  There was so much to fit in and the audience was richly entertained from violin, piano and singing performances to hearing slightly less common instruments such as the viola, French horn and even the melodica.  All of Year 5 sang and the

Thursday 3 October was National Poetry Day, and teachers and students across the school spent the day dipping into varied verses. Many departments shared poems based specifically on their subjects. Some poems led to deep discussions about the concepts within them, others offered students the challenge of tongue-twisting lines, especially PE’s ‘THWOK!’ by Matt Harvey,

There has been some great hockey being played lately!  The U18 team proved invincible at the Tier 4 Tournament at Plymouth Marjons, winning all of their games in their pool (4-0 vs Plymouth College, 1-0 vs Colyton, 1-0 vs West Buckland, 4-0 vs Shebbear). This put the team top in their pool whereupon they played