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

The girls in the Pre-Prep have been very imaginative with their creations as part of the Eggcellent Engineering Challenge to design a boat that can successfully carry an egg without sinking or breaking it. Rosamund (Year 2) even made hers with a working propeller! It is great to see so many budding engineers!

School has remained open for our younger children of Key Workers, who have been taking part in lots of fun lessons and activities, albeit in slightly strange circumstances! From creating rainbows for the NHS, Forest School fun, making pom poms, decoupage, enjoying a pamper morning and taking part in various challenges!

Congratulations to our Under 18 Hockey squad who finished sixth at the National Tier 4 Hockey Finals at the London Olympic Park on Tuesday 3 March 2020. Unfortunately, just one loss in the opening match – of four games in their pool draw – against Bancroft’s School ruled them out of a place in the

Our Under 15 Netball team triumphed in all their five games on Tuesday 3 March 2020 to convincingly win the Regional Finals tournament.  “The girls were superb, having to fight back in the second half on more than one occasion,” said their coach, Mrs Wood. “This was their final tournament of the season and it was

The penultimate Biz Whizz careers talks for this academic year took place on Friday 28 February 2020 with another fine set of brilliant speakers. Dr Ceri Lewis, an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Exeter, spoke to a packed room about her research on the impact of global changes and microplastic pollution

Our Lower 5 GCSE Food & Nutrition students have been working on some new techniques in their lessons. They made their own flaky pastry and turned it into raspberry or passion fruit Mille-Feuille in one of their recent lessons – delicious!

Year 2 spent an exciting day at Paignton Zoo to support their topic ‘Animal Magic. The girls enjoyed a session about habitats at the education centre, before spending the rest of the day exploring the zoo! 

Our U14 netballers were happy after some fabulous matches v Exeter School before half term. The As played superbly winning 41-18 & playing some of the best netball we have seen them play this season. The Bs also worked hard and finished really strongly, winning  23-12.  The U15 teams also played some super matches with the

Well done to our team of codebreakers, Hannah, Tess, Maliha and India, who competed in the second round of the GCHQ Cyber Discovery Challenge at the MET Office before half term.  The girls took to their laptops to solve a series of online puzzles in the first co-ordinated event of this kind run by the

Our Sixth Formers thoroughly enjoyed their Masked Ball which took place just before half term – an annual event to relax after their mock exams. The games of ‘Musical Chairs’ and ‘Over Under’ were highly entertaining and amusing – only at The Maynard! The photo booth with its many different accessories also proved to be

42 of our girls set off on the much anticipated Ski Trip to the Austrian Alps over half term, accompanied by Mrs Davey, Miss York, Mrs Thorne, Miss Lavelle and Dr Rudling. They had a fantastic time – as well as developing their skiing in some beautiful conditions – and a couple of tougher snowy

All of Year 3 – Year 6 took part in the Junior School Swimming Gala on Wednesday 26 February. The girls were superb; they swam brilliantly, showed excellent support for each other and showed real perseverance! The 10 x 1 Y6 relay was a real sight to see! The results were: 1st Haberdashers (161 points) 2nd Armourers