Beautiful choux pastry swans will soon take flight in the Food & Nutrition Suite! Brilliant Lower 4 (Year 8) bakers have been making and piping the pastry, and next week will assemble and decorate their gorgeous swans ready to serve!

Our intrepid students braved the latest round of Ten Tors training last weekend, making the most of it despite the horrible conditions and horizontal wind and rain (as anyone caught out and about on Saturday can attest!). Well done everyone for taking on the challenge and fingers crossed for warmer, dryer walks to come!

Year 1 are continuing their solar system studies and have been busy working in pairs to create papier-mâché models of all the planets. These will soon be hung up pride of place in their classroom, making it look even lovelier than it already does!

Eager Key Stage 3 geographers from eight local schools joined us for another exciting edition of the annual Worldwise Quiz yesterday! Run by the Exeter branch of the Geographical Association, the event put teams’ geography knowledge to the test in a series of fun rounds with questions ranging from climate change to fieldwork. Competition was

Creative Upper 4’s (Year 9’s) Green Man clay mask projects are coming along splendidly! They’ve been meticulously carving out and sculpting the leaves, facial features and strong expressions that are signatures of this style of mask, bringing their pieces even more to life!

Upper 4 (Year 9) have completed their outstanding World War I projects in History, putting a creative spin on their learning by making a personal interpretation of one part of the conflict that resonates with them. We were truly impressed by the quality of their final pieces and the confidence of their presentations – an

Some of our lovely guests at the most recent Discovery Morning spent one of their fun morning activities making a beautiful Christmas mobile to be donated to charity… and the final product is now complete! It was gifted to our friends at The Lodge Care Home by some of our fabulously creative Year 2 students

Our fabulous Upper 4 (Year 9) Christmas cakes are finally ready! Just take a look at the incredible range this year! Today’s Christmas Cake Exhibition was a wonderful celebration of the season, with decorations ranging from edible Christmas jumpers to holly wreaths, adorable penguins, skiing snowmen and heaps more festive finishing touches. The time, care

Year 3 became fashion designers last week! They used the computers to design their own Christmas jumper, as well as a special festive jumper for Mr Hoile. They experimented with colours, patterns and fun seasonal decorations to produce some wonderfully imaginative designs!

On Wednesday, our Lower 4 historians enjoyed a fantastic trip to Buckland Abbey, where they spent the day learning about life in Tudor England at the home of none other than Sir Francis Drake. The Buckland Abbey team’s Christmas decorations made for a beautiful backdrop to the group’s exploration of Drake’s adventures, and the Tudor costume

It’s no exaggeration to say that we were completely and utterly charmed by yesterday afternoon’s wonderful Pre-Prep Christmas Show! In ‘Whoops-a-Daisy Angel’, a disorganised but lovable angel is chosen for a very special task – to show the way to Bethlehem for the birth of baby Jesus. Our delightful Pre-Prep stars captured every heart in

We loved hosting the Exeter heat of the Historical Association’s Great Debate on Tuesday, welcoming talented public speakers from other nearby schools and expert judges for a fascinating evening of all things history. All three Maynard speakers absolutely excelled, and – for the second year in a row! – we have a Maynardian through to

If you visit the library this month, you’ll see that it has been utterly transformed to be the heart of all things merry and bright! You’ll find beautiful festive crafts made by our students – not to mention the fabulous gingerbread countdown to Christmas with book recommendations – so try to spot the magic in

Our intrepid Ten Tors teams were out training again this weekend, covering an impressive 10-13km on Saturday and a whopping 20km+ on Sunday! Saturday kicked off with indoor skills sessions, practicing contour sketching and compass skills, before braving the rain and getting hands-on with compass work on the moor itself; a busy day spent visiting

We are so very grateful to each family who generously donated to our annual shoebox appeal for Moldova and Ukraine this year! Over 100 boxes were sent off to spread Christmas cheer yesterday, with Armourers donating the most (though every House contributed a mighty sum). Your acts of kindness will bring so much joy!

Future architects in Lower 5 (Year 10) and Lower 6 (Year 12) had a fantastic time stretching their skills at the Cityscape Design Competition last Friday! Organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, 16 teams from various schools were tasked with designing a hub for St Petrock’s to feed, shelter and support the homeless