We welcomed three brilliant speakers on 18 October 2019 to talk to the Senior Girls about their careers and, once again, we cannot thank these professionals for so willingly giving of their time to inform and inspire. Architect, Lee Ferris (who was instrumental in the design of Wimbledon’s retractable roof as well as many other

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

 “The Maynard School is a very welcoming, happy and nurturing school and the girls do well due to the emphasis on their wellbeing.” The Wellbeing Award for Schools. In June 2019, we were delighted to become the first (and only) school in Devon to achieve the Wellbeing Award for Schools in recognition of the sheer

We are delighted to have been voted again as one of the top ten best value private schools in the UK by the Daily Telegraph. We continue to achieve this status year-on-year based on our academic excellence, the sheer volume of extra-curricular opportunities and our sporting prowess versus the “significantly more manageable price” of our

Huge congratulations to Andrew and his catering team who have, once again, been awarded the top food hygiene rating of five following their spot inspection on Tuesday 10 September 2019. We are incredibly proud of the exceptional school meals that are served to students and staff on a daily basis, and the inspectors were certainly

Following a whirlwind of auditions to kick start the Autumn Term, the cast has now been confirmed for next year’s production of ‘Legally Blonde’. Ms Bellamy and Miss Blackwell were overwhelmed by the sheer quality (and quantity) of all those that came forward to audition which made for a nigh-on impossible task when it came

Congratulations to Olivia Taylor in the Sixth Form who sailed through a rigorous three stage application process to gain a place on the Skyborne EASA Integrated ATPL training course to become a fully qualified airline pilot. Not only was she the only female to be selected but, at just 17-years old, she was the youngest

Twelve of our top sportswomen joined forces with 400 other sporty females from across the country at the annual ‘Girls Go Gold Conference’ at the University of Bath on Thursday 12 September 2019. Pam Cookey, ex-England Netball captain, commonwealth medallist and successful engineer opened the conference with a speech about the importance of sport on

The Upper 3 had a wonderful time at Escot on their teambuilding day at the start of the Autumn Term. Mrs Rowley, Mrs Bean and Miss Hartopp, the Upper 3 tutor team, had a thoroughly great time with this lovely lot. The girls got lost in mazes, daringly threw themselves down the drop slide and

The Sixth Form Art students enjoyed a busy day in London on Saturday 14 September, visiting the last day of the Cindy Sherman retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery before heading off to the BP Portrait exhibition to soak up inspiration and luxuriate in the variety and quality of the work on display.  After lunch, and having explored

Huge congratulations to Emma in Lower 4 who competed in the Belgian National Swimming Championships during the summer holidays, gaining a silver medal in the 100m backstroke race for 12 year olds. This is a remarkable achievement at a top level competition and is richly deserved. Well done, Emma!

The Drama Department are celebrating some remarkable LAMDA results with a 100% pass rate and 95% of the girls gaining Distinction – this is most rare and really hard to achieve, especially in the higher grades. A very big well done to all of the girls and a special thank you to their teacher, Mrs

Old Maynardian, Ellie Ramsay, successfully completed her 230-mile charity bike ride from London to the Eiffel Tower in July, raising over £1250 for Breast Cancer Now. This is all the more remarkable given Ellie had not completed any cycling prior to the event and had only minutes before the start to learn how to use

72.9% of all Maynard grades are 7-9 (versus the national average of 20.8%). Nearly one quarter of all results are awarded the highest grade 9 46.7% are Grade 8 or 9 This year saw a whole raft of high achieving students with some excellent results including a total of 10 students who gained eight or