The Maynard Wine Gums team of Miri Cooper Wedge, Bella Brent, Kitty Guinness, Anna Harries and Anya Hitt (all in the Upper 4) enjoyed a truly successful outing to the Animal Allies FIRST Lego League regional tournament at the HP labs in Bristol on Thursday 12 January 2017. FIRST LEGO League challenges young people to think like
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Our huge thanks to Zoe Flood, our Bafta-winning alumna, who returned to the School on Tuesday 13 December 2016 to give an afternoon talk to the Lower 5s before taking to the floor that evening as our Speaker at the annual Prize Giving ceremony at the Belmont Chapel. Zoe stole the show with an inspirational
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The Autumn term ended in a flurry of festive activities to see out 2016 in typically jolly style! The Christmas Carol Service in St Matthew’s Church on Thursday 15 December 2016, the penultimate day of term, was an outstanding success with some beautiful performances from three school choirs, the staff choir and the various readers.
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The Maynard School Christmas revelries have started in earnest and will continue at great pace with another busy week ahead. The two performances of the Nativity Play and the Junior School carols went down a storm (on Thursday 8 December and Friday 9 December) and our congratulations to all those involved with these stunning shows.
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The Maynard Young Enterprise team, Blue Velvet, was awarded Best Trade Stand at the Winter Trade Fair in Princesshay on Saturday 10 December. Much of the 16-strong team contributed to the day and showed great commitment to creating a professional looking retail stand on one of the busiest shopping days before Christmas. They all gained confidence in
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Our Under 9 A&B teams enjoyed their last hockey game of the season, playing Exeter Cathedral School on Thursday 8 December. The girls played brilliantly with the A-side winning 2-0 and the B team drawing 1-1. Special mention to Esther Cope (Year 4) who was awarded player of the match in the A team. This
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We still need votes for our #MadeForGirls advertising campaign using this link – http://www.thedrum.com/creative-works/project/ab-ideas-agency-maynard-school-madeforgirls ! It has been shortlisted as one of the best advertising campaigns in 2016 by a leading marketing publication and we are up against companies such as Hellman’s, B&Q, Greenpeace and Tesco! We have currently accumulated over 700 votes but some of
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It’s a Christmas bonanza in the Pre-Prep and Junior School with a calendar packed full of exciting appointments for the last few days of the autumn term! The final glittering touches have been made to the Junior School Christmas Show, incorporating the Pre-Prep Nativity Play, which promises to be a heart-warming spectacle! (We won’t spoil
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After an absence of eight years, the staff play returned to hilarious effect with two sell-out performances of the comedy version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ on Wednesday 30 November and Friday 2 December 2016. These really were some of the funniest evenings on record and both audiences were reduced to tears (of laughter) throughout. Over
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It was fantastic to hear that one of our alumnae, Anastasia Bruce-Jones, has successfully directed an adaptation of John Webster’s ‘Duchess of Malfi’ in November for the prestigious Marlowe Society at Cambridge University. Currently in her second year at Gonville and Caius College, Anastasia has thrown herself into the theatre scene and this was the
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Florence Evans (Lower 4) has been awarded November’s Performance of the Month for her fantastic performance in the recent Devon Level 2 Gymnastics Championships. Flo won individual gold for all four pieces of apparatus (beam, bars, floor and vault) and also helped her team to overall victory. This was her last competition for the year
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Our entire Year 6, Upper 3 and Lower 4 year groups played an integral role at the Lord Mayor’s Carol Service held at the Cathedral on Monday 5 December 2016 with the girls all singing beautifully at this most festive of occasions. They were joined by the City of Exeter Railway Band and the Exeter
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Not only are we the Under 14 Devon hockey champions, but we are now also the Devon Netball champions for this age range courtesy of a fantastic victory at the County Championships on Thursday 24 November. The team was invincible in all four of their pool matches against Sidmouth, Pilton, Teign and Ivybridge, accruing a
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We welcomed Gifted and Talented students from St Leonard’s, Ide and Bickleigh Primary Schools for an afternoon of coding on Tuesday 29 November. Under the supervision of Mrs Burt, Head of Computing, together with a team of experts from PS-Stem, our guests learned about some key concepts of Computer Science using Kano. Kano is a
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Sisters, Natalie (Upper 3) and Nicky (Upper 4) Charity have scooped Silver and Bronze respectively at the recent Junior Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu European Championships in Wolverhampton on Sunday 20 November. This is an incredible achievement given the competition attracted 600 children representing 17 different countries, all performing to an extremely high level. Here at School, we
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Our Year 11 student, Jessica Carr, has recently completed her training at the Norman Lockyer Observatory, a centre for amateur astronomy, meteorology and radio astronomy based in Sidmouth. This experience involved demonstrating her competence in the use of the controls and also giving presentations to the public. As her supervisor, Mac Currie, explains: “Jess now
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The Middle School performances of the ‘Wind in the Willows’ were a great hit and our congratulations to all the Year 7 and 8 girls for making the show such a success. It was an honour to welcome 100 students from West Hill Primary and St. Leonard’s to the matinee performance on Thursday 24 November
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On Saturday 19 November we welcomed nearly 60 children to our ever-popular Discovery Morning and the theme was distinctly autumnal. The Main School Hall was bedecked in wildlife from squirrels and hedgehogs right through to beautiful rusty-coloured foliage.
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The Maynard has enjoyed yet another successful week on the sports pitch culminating with star gymnast, Flo Evans (Lower 4) scooping five golds at the Devon team and Individual Level 2 competition. In this, her last competition for 2016, not only did Flo’s team hit the top spot but she was also awarded gold for
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It is a miracle that the roof on the Gym is still in place after the rousing Autumn Concert on Thursday 17 November 2016! With 97 girls involved, there was a packed auditorium and everyone was treated to a truly memorable evening of music. Altogether, twelve of the School’s ensembles performed featuring orchestras, choirs, bands
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After an absence of eight years, the staff play is back! Performances of the comedy version of ‘A Christmas Carol’, featuring starring roles from (amongst others) Mrs Fanous, Mr Loosemore, Mrs Reynolds and Mr Hibberd will take place at 7pm on Wednesday 30 November and Friday 2 December.
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A total of 21 girls studying French at GCSE and A-level enjoyed an incredible trip to the French Riviera in Southern France during the half term holiday.
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The Under 14 hockey team played exceptionally at the West Hockey Finals on Tuesday 8 November, only missing out on a place in the finals by the narrowest of margins.
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Working with the director of the National Theatre and operating a mixing desk of 180 microphones in the BBC outside broadcast unit with the engineer for the Last Night of the Proms were just two of the activities undertaken by our A-level Drama and Music students this week.
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Give your daughter an authentic sample of what life at The Maynard is really like at one of our upcoming Taster Days!
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Since opening in September 2016, the new Pre-Prep is certainly proving to be a very stimulating and happy environment.
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Excitement is building for out GCSE and A-level Geographers and Biologists who fly to Costa Rica on Thursday 20 October for a sensational ten-day tour.
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On Monday 10 October 2016, our Under 15 netball team sealed a decisive victory over Millfield School, winning by a relatively comfortable margin of 32-25 in the second round of the Independent Schools Netball Cup (ISNC).
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We have enjoyed another exceptional week of sport across the School, culminating on Friday 7 October
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