Four of our Upper 6 (Year 13) Chemists participated in the Chemistry Olympiad, a national competition organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The material is highly challenging and, this year, included the added challenge of having to complete the two-hour paper during remote learning. Shweta and Mandy achieved Bronze awards and Margaret and Nicole

Our Lower 4s (Year 8) have been busy this week creating show-stopping choux pastry swans as one of their ‘Bake Off’ challenges. Meanwhile, the Lower 5 (Year 10) GCSE class have honed their flaky pastry skills since returning to school and learned how to make crème patisserie to create these stunning looking Mille Feuilles.  Finally,

It has been a Law filled week with external speakers joining in the Lower 5 (Year 10) tutorial sessions as part of the PSHE programme. We welcomed ‘Magistrates in the Community’ via Teams conferencing, who talked about the structure of the Law Courts in England and how magistrates contribute to this. They also organised a

The last week of term sees a calendar packed with House fixtures and the girls are out in force playing for their various teams which is such a wonderful sight to behold. We held our first ever Upper 3 House Tag Rugby competition in the sunshine. On the back of them all doing so well

The Drama Department is back in the rehearsal room (hurray!) working towards an exciting in-the-round performance of Macbeth. The show will take place in the Performing Arts Centre toward the end of the summer term with a cast and crew consisting of the Lower 6 students. Mr Ganley is directing and has said, “It is

The Year 2 girls have been finding different ways of recording information. They have learned about Carroll Diagrams (named after the famous author, Lewis Carroll), tally charts and Venn Diagrams. The girls really enjoyed finding out more about each other’s likes and dislikes before recording the information using Venn Diagrams. There were quite a few

The Year Three Iceni tribe rounded off their Iron Age topic by having their final battle, attacking and overthrowing the Year Five Roman Army led by Emperor Smerdon. They planned their battle strategies first and made wonderful speeches to gain confidence and boost their morale before facing their older enemies. Creeping cautiously across the grounds

Being able to rehearse with real people actually in the room together has been wonderful! No more little faces on Zoom, all trying not to interrupt each other and not able to get any idea of what the action on stage will look like. We have now completed our first full week of real life

Five girls in the Lower 6 participated in the Physics Olympiad, a national competition organised by the University of Oxford. All five girls received certificates: Charlotte, Althea and Alice all achieved Bronze awards; Isabelle achieved a Silver award; and Gloria achieved a Gold award. Gloria was ranked in the top 780 Physics students nationally, which

In their computing lessons, Year 4 have been discussing what makes a good animation, before using software to create their own simple cartoons. They have learned how to move an object or character across a background by making gradual movements, frame by frame. Then sound effects have been added to certain frames. The girls have

It is so wonderful to be able to host group activities again, albeit in our bubbles. School is positively humming with so many different clubs before lessons, as part of lessons, during lunch and after school! Fitness classes abound for staff and students, the double courts are constantly buzzing with football, rugby and netball clubs

It was lovely to have all of our girls from Year 3 to Year 6 running around Leebourne in the sunshine (thankfully) as we started our cross country lessons. Year 6 were relieved and disappointed in equal measure not to be going down to Bull Meadow Park as we would ordinarily do for their route

Satara in Lower 6 is taking part in the 27 miles over 27 days for Mind charity. “I have started halfway through so this will be more of a challenge for me, but I know I will complete it. I run and walk a lot anyway, so I thought this would be a great thing

Team Bath Netball has announced that another hub of South West sports development excellence – The Maynard in Exeter – is joining its Academy Development Centre network. On the back of our recently announced sponsorship of the Exeter Chiefs Women’s Team (offering a realm of top quality rugby opportunities for our students) we are now

A new and exciting chapter in the history of women’s sport is about to take off with The Maynard School, the oldest girls’ school in the country, collaborating with the newly formed Exeter Chiefs Women’s side. Set to be part of the elite Premier 15s competition, the Chiefs side – who will come under the

Our very many and rather belated congratulations to the current Head Girl Team of Elizabeth, Lara, Peggy, Verity, Amelie, Miri, Eleanor, Emily, Raily and Miller. These wonderful girls were actually voted into post just before lockdown, so taking a group photo has been impossible until the Summer Term started. However, they have been working tirelessly

We extend a very warm welcome to all of our many new joiners but particularly to our youngest students in Reception Class. They are all settling in really well and have enjoyed drawing, painting and playing with each other so far. It goes without saying that we look forward to working with them as they

What an exciting start to the Year 6 Science lessons this term! The girls had a great time closely inspecting a pig’s heart and lungs as part of their Human Circulatory System topic. Mrs Reynolds, their class teacher, is famed for her hands-on approach to learning and all the evidence points to these lucky girls

Congratulations to Family Ramsay who played such an instrumental part in the Isca Under 18’s becoming the England Hockey Tier 2 Champions on Sunday 6 September, beating Beeston on their home ground 3-2 at the Nottingham Hockey Centre. Anna (Upper 6) was supported by her sister, Jess (leaver in 2017), as Assistant Coach alongside Ellie

David Cottam, the school’s guitar teacher, has enjoyed a productive summer. On top of teaching his pupils online, he managed to compose them all their own individual pieces of music which will be published in his next book. Several of his compositions have been used as ABRSM exam pieces and he is an accomplished and

It turns out that our school is full of twins, both amongst staff members and students, but it is especially remarkable that we now have four sets of twins in one year group alone! This term we welcomed Amelie and Chloe as well as Grace and Pippa who now join our other twin sets of

The sun shone for our GCSE Results Day and huge congratulations to all of our Upper 5 (Year 11) students on their very many richly deserved achievements! These results were based entirely on real evidence and fully reflect the hard work and dedication that they all put into their GCSE studies these past couple of

It’s fair to say that today’s was no ordinary Results Day and understandably we were greeted this morning by more nerves than ever with no-one really knowing what to expect after such an extraordinary past few months. However, in the end there were many joyous smiles and family hugs. One such, was Isobel Pinsky who

Congratulations to Shweta (Year 12) who has just consolidated her position as one of the top 120 students internationally by winning the University of Cambridge’s Isaac Physics – Senior Physics Challenge. Shweta is a phenomenally talented student with an enormous work ethic although this award is also testimony to our Science Department who year-on-year inspire

We have loved seeing groups of our Lower 6 (Year 12) and Lower 5 (Year 10) back in school this week for some “face time” with their teachers and the school certainly seemed alive again with the sounds of chatter and laughter. In addition to a good catch-up with their tutors, the Lower 5 have

Congratulations to our Senior Netball and Hockey teams who recently completed their collaborative effort to run from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for Raynick, the South African girl they met on their Sports Tour in 2018. For two years they have been sponsoring her education in its entirety and they have pledged to

The Upper 4 (Year 9) Classicists have completed a fantastic project on Homer and have been inspired to create their own representations of the Trojan horse. Some of these representations look quite cheerful considering the havoc the Trojan horse was destined to bring! This quotation from Virgil describes the scene particularly well:  “Smooth-gliding wheelswere ‘neath

During their foundation A-level lessons earlier in June 2020, the Upper 5 Chemists rose to the challenge of a new home-learning task. They had to create a set of apparatus from items they could find at home and then attempt to carry out a valid test to find out the effect of changing concentration on

The Lower 4 (Year 8) language students have been working hard on their project, doing research on their favourite French town and they have produced the most informative posters to describe their chosen town, using the French vocabulary and structures they have learnt since being in lockdown.  During this climate of us not being able

Lockdown has certainly produced some impressively delicious results for all those girls who enjoy their Food & Nutrition lessons. From healthy sandwiches with homemade pâté, beautiful Victoria sponges, intricate filo parcels, caramel squares, vibrant salads, plaited bread loaves …. Lockdown has produced several veritable feasts!