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!

The Maynard School continues to offer the best possible education whilst our girls have been studying from home. Known for the quality of our fantastic teaching within a caring family environment, we have designed a comprehensive remote learning package that is second to none in terms of academic breadth and seamless pastoral care.  As one

Congratulations to Bee Bothered, our incredible award-winning Young Enterprise team, who have just been selected as the only team to represent the UK in the Arconic Foundation’s Innovative Recycling and Reuse Award. They outstripped the national competition in the qualifying round to land this latest accolade – an incredible feat given, in the words of

We have been running our Year 6 Coding Club ever since we went into lockdown and we even met once a week during the school holidays. So far, we have built electronic traffic lights, burglar alarms with PIR sensors and then worked on making battery powered remote projects. Our latest project has brought all those skills together to make

During lockdown many of our students have spent some of their Science lessons undertaking research and producing projects in the form of posters. All of us in the Science Department were impressed with both the pupils’ enthusiasm and the quality of their finished posters. The theme for the Lower 4 project was “An Inspirational Female

This part of the Summer Term is the time when Tregear is usually buzzing with class concerts. These are always enjoyed by all and are a chance to celebrate pupils’ musical achievements. We are delighted to report that this spirit of celebration and fun has continued remotely. Upper 3, Lower 4 and Upper 4 have

The entire Pre-Prep has been very busy with their home learning since the start of term and this week we focus on the Year 2. They have been adding, subtracting, multiplying AND dividing in Maths, as well as creating story maps, re-writing The Tiger Who Came to Tea (we’ve had kangaroos, cats, unicorns and parrots

We were bowled over by the response to our Photography Competition and the judges certainly had a very difficult time with over 100 exceptional entries to separate. After some serious deliberation, we are delighted to announce the winners in each category and our congratulations to them all! Alumnae: Pip Squires  Parents: Kate Daws  Staff: Miss

The Maynard students continue their studies from home in fine style and our thanks to all those who have written in to express their gratitude for the educational package that we are continuing to deliver. These are certainly testing times for everyone but the usual Maynard grit and resilience has never before come to the

The 60th edition of Ten Tors was due to take place over the first weekend in May and, as ever, we had several teams all primed for participation in what always forms one of their most memorable experiences. Undeterred by the cancellation, however, Mr Tabb gave them all a mini-challenge – to be ‘epic and

Fitness abounds, albeit remotely! The online Run 5Km, Donate £5 and Nominate 5 has seen an enormous take up from The Maynard. Staff and students have certainly embraced this and congratulations to everyone who has completed so far: the entire PE Department, the English Teachers, Mme and Margot Smith, Emily, Zoe, Elizabeth and countless others

Congratulations to all those that entered our recent Short Story and Book Cover design competition. It really was a challenge in itself trying to choose the winners but, after much deliberation, we are pleased to announce the following winners: Alumnae: Holly Trusted Parent/Family: Trudi Goodridge Senior School: Lizzie (Upper 5) Junior School: Annie (Year 3)

Here at The Maynard we aren’t ones to let our lively brains go to waste and our Upper 5 (Year 11) students have already embarked upon their first few weeks of A-level studies in earnest. In Physics, they tackled the Miniature Machine Challenge to test their knowledge of Newton’s laws of motions and we love

There are so many great charitable things happening during the coronavirus lockdown with so many of our students doing their bit to help out! Rose in Upper 3 and her siblings are running 143.1 miles to raise money for the UK’s Covid-19 vaccine development at the University of Oxford, while Betsy in Lower 6 is

Well done to our Young Enterprise team, Bee Bothered, who have won the Sustainability Trophy in the remote Young Enterprise Devon Finals! The girls have also decided to enter another competition – the Arconic Foundation Innovative Recycling and Reuse Competition. The finals of this competition will take place on 3 June and we wish them

We were thrilled to hear that Hayley in Year 6 has been offered a much coveted place at the Elmhurst Ballet School to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina. This is a phenomenal achievement as only approximately 16 girls are chosen from a vast number of applicants at home and internationally. It also comes

A selection of creative artwork from the Senior School girls over the last couple of weeks, including Lower 5 Natural Forms in the style of Andy Goldsworthy and Pattern and Colour in Leaves using Watercolour, Upper 4 ‘A City in a Jar’ and Upper 3 faces based on Arcimboldo.

There has been so much going on in the Food & Nutrition department with students continuing with their practical work in their homes. The Lower 5 GCSE students have been enjoying some technical work – Harriet has successfully boned a chicken, Chloe has made beautiful Angel cakes and Anna has made a delicious Bakewell tart