“On Wednesday 10 October I was lucky enough to be asked to play in the Royal Albert Hall for the National Schools’ Primary Proms. As part of my studies at the Royal College of Music on Saturdays, I play with an octet which is super friendly and something I have never done before so I
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Congratulations to our talented Under 14 Netball team who secured some convincing wins against three local sides in the Area Netball Tournament on Wednesday 10 October to breeze through to the Devon County Round in November. We thank ex-England netballer and Maynard alumna, Jo Vann, who returned to inspire this generation of players with some
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We are delighted to be voted, once again, as one of the top ten best value private schools in the UK by The Daily Telegraph on 27 September 2018. The Maynard was also the only school in the South West (extending as far afield as Reading and Oxford) to feature in the ratings. The rankings
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Over 50 families joined us for a hugely successful Open Morning on Saturday 29 September 2018. The school was alive with a plethora of different activities, run by the students themselves, from coding, pond dipping in Biology, fashion design, celebrating the centenary of the end of World War I right through to meeting ‘Shakespeare’ in
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Huge congratulations to Chloe Lamb (Upper 6), for winning the politics section of the Oxford University’s Stubbs Society essay prize for her complex piece entitled: War is the continuation of politics by other means (Clausewitz 1780-1831). Discuss. Chloe was originally one of 10 shortlisted for this prestigious award for showing the “most impressive aptitude in
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We enjoyed another excellent careers talk on Friday 21 September 2018, this time from Philippa Waddell, the founder and owner of Wildhorse Films. Over thirty girls attended this entirely voluntary session and they all listened avidly to Philippa recounting how she worked her way up in the industry to be where she is today. She
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Two teams from Upper 4 (Year 9) took part in the Devon Schools’ Poetry Slam workshop and competition at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival on Thursday 20 September 2018. The teams were Rose Finnegan and Alex Hudson, as well as Eleanor Cumbley and Daisy Hoban. Both teams wrote wonderful poems and performed them absolutely brilliantly,
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Twenty nine girls from the Lower 5 (Year 10) all successfully completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh training over the weekend of 15/16 September 2018 and they were treated to ideal walking conditions for their trek around the stunning East Devon countryside. They all set off on Saturday morning from Sidbury car park for their
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Twelve of our elite athletes had the most amazing day at the Girls Go Gold Conference in Oxfordshire on Friday 14 September 2018 and the highlight for many was being able to meet and chat with Clare Balding OBE. They were treated to some particularly memorable keynote speakers and the event launched with brain tumour
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On Wednesday 12 September 2018, the GCSE and A-level Drama students went to see Ian Hislop’s funny and thought-provoking ‘The Wipers Times’ at The Northcott Theatre. Set in the trenches of WW1 the show charts the creation and rise of the real life story of the satirical newspaper, ‘The Wipers Times’. Following a sell-out West
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All ten new girls in the Reception class have enjoyed a great first full week getting to know their classmates and they already appear to be fully settled in their new life at The Maynard. There has been all sorts of fun and creativity in the classroom and they have been loving spending time with
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Many congratulations to all our riders who competed at the National Schools NSEA Show Jumping qualifier at Bicton Arena on Sunday 9 September 2018. It was wonderful to welcome Isobel Davies (Lower 6) who was competing for the first time for The Maynard and she put in a fantastic double clear to finish second in
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Two days after his performance at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, Sheku Kanneh-Mason was in Budleigh Salterton to headline their Music Festival in July 2018. Sheku is the young cellist who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry, following winning BBC Young Musician of the Year and the success of his Number
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Twenty one girls had the trip of a lifetime during the summer holidays when travelling to South Africa for their hockey and netball sports tour. Aside from playing superbly in all their training opportunities and matches against local sides from Cape Town and beyond, they also had plenty of time to soak up the area’s
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Congratulations to all our many Sixth Formers who enjoyed a hugely successful four day and four night Gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition in the Brecon Beacons during the July heatwave. This was the final assessment for 20 of them and training for one (due to a foot injury causing a missed training walk) and, despite
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After the success of last week’s A-Level results, The Maynard School is thrilled to have achieved another outstanding set of results at GCSE level. In a year of uncertainty and change with the well-publicised reforms to the Year 11 examination system, our students have performed superbly to triple the national average of the top grades
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– The Maynard in Exeter doubles the national average for A*- A grades Maynard student, Charlotte Miller, was given the best possible 18th birthday present today when she opened her envelope to discover she had achieved three A*s in her Maths, Physics and Chemistry A-levels. Alongside her was her proud mother, pre-empting the celebrations with a
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The Senior School Sports Day was fortunate enough to coincide with the departure of the recent heatwave and the cloudier conditions were greeted with much relief when the school decamped to Exeter Arena on Tuesday 3 July 2018. As ever, there were some hugely competitive races and field events but, most importantly, the day was
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The students in Years 7, 8 and 9 thoroughly enjoyed their cross-curricular days designed to celebrate the 100year anniversary since women were first allowed to vote in the UK. Starting off on Monday 25 June 2018 with an assembly covering topics such as the British suffragettes and the status of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia,
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On Tuesday 26 June, we welcomed 84 pupils from 20 primary schools across the region for the annual and very competitive Primary Mathematics Challenge. Teams of enthusiastic budding mathematicians from Year 5 represented their schools in this fun all-day competition by completing a variety of exciting and challenging problem-solving activities, from relay races to crossnumbers
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The penultimate week of the Summer Term has provided plenty of exciting new experiences for students in both the Junior and Senior School. Whilst the students in Upper 5 enjoyed a week of work experience in a number of companies both in Devon and further afield, the Lower 5 language girls were soaking up the
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We would like to extend a big thank you to all the Junior School girls who supported our South Africa Sports Tour 2018 fundraising event on Thursday 28 June 2018. Fifty five girls attended and had fun on Leebourne playing parachute games with the Lower 5 tour girls, followed by a hotdog before snuggling into
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The glorious summer sunshine has allowed for some exceptional sports days this term and on Friday 22 June 2018 the Pre-Prep girls enjoyed a brilliant day, supported by a large crowd of parents and relatives on Leebourne Lawn. Each and every one took part in a range of different challenges including the Turtle and Spoon
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On Thursday 17 May 2018, the BBC reported on the worrying lack of girls studying A-level Physics with an article entitled “How Physics gender gap starts in the classroom”. The article highlighted that in 2016 just 1.9% of girls chose A-level Physics and were outnumbered with four boys choosing Physics for every one girl. It
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Our thanks to Westonbirt School for hosting 12 of our students at the GSA Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Day on Monday 21 May 2018. It was a fantastic event featuring some excellent motivational speakers and workshops; we were very proud of our girls for asking such incisive questions and so thoroughly engaging themselves in the
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The girls in Upper 4 and Lower 5 (Years 9 & 10) thoroughly enjoyed the showing of ‘Embrace’ on Friday 18 May 2018 which we held as part of our Wellbeing Programme in recognition of Mental Health Awareness week. ‘Embrace’ is an exceptionally powerful film that focuses on body image and self-esteem with a strong
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The Year 6 students are certainly showing huge aptitude and confidence in their coding lessons this term and have been racing through their various tasks. So far, they have learned about strings and variables, creating code with while loops and then testing their code with emulators, before downloading their programmes to microbits. During the rest
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Our Lower 6 Geographers have returned to school feeling invigorated in their studies following three gloriously sunny days spent in the Yorkshire Dales from 14 – 16 May 2018. From investigating carbon stores, collecting hydrology data and undertaking various statistical tests in the grounds near Malham Tern, right through to visiting the Ribblehead valley survey
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Our Year Three had a great time at the Wembury Marine Centre on Tuesday 15 May 2018 where they were led by the Devon Wildlife Trust in numerous activities to discover the enormous variety of creatures that inhabit our seas. A session of rockpooling discovered many different species of crabs, starfish and creatures related to
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Huge congratulations to all 21 students who took part in and completed the Ten Tors Challenge over the weekend of 11-13 May 2018. Both of our 35-mile teams finished in very good times and, despite being given different routes, they crossed the line with only 20 minutes separating them. Equally, our very determined 45-milers kept
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