This year’s Summer Concert on Tuesday 9 May was yet again a stunning mix of exceptional talents across the board. With performances by the School’s senior ensembles, to toe tapping along to the sounds of the jazz band and saxophone quartet, the elegance of the Advanced Wind Ensemble right through to the soaring voices of
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Good luck to the three teams who will represent The Maynard at the upcoming Ten Tors Challenge, starting on Friday 5 May 2017. Both 35-miles teams and one who will take on the 45-mile course could not be better prepared following an intense training programme under the watchful guidance of our staff over the past
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Our on-site Forest School is proving a popular addition to the curriculum for the entire Pre-Prep who are enjoying their weekly sessions around the camp fire! The first session was based around the book ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister, which they have been reading in class. They worked as a group to create a
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Congratulations to Mrs Thorne and Miss Williamson for both finishing the London Marathon and, in so doing, raising nearly £6,000 for their respective charities – The Teenage Cancer Trust and CLIC Sargent.
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Following their performance at the Music for Youth Regional Festival in February, the Maynard Trio of Robyn Bowman (Upper 6), Alexandra Pavic (Upper 5) and Gigi Hetherington (Upper 5) have won a much-coveted place at the National Festival to be held at the Birmingham Symphony Hall in July. This is an incredible achievement and testament
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We are looking forward to hosting our inaugural ‘Explore Law’ careers event on Wednesday 10 May 2017, organised in conjunction with The University of Law. Aimed at those currently studying for their GCSEs and A Levels, this free event will provide students with an excellent opportunity to find out what it really takes to obtain
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Our fantastic Under 14 Netball team, the recent National finalists and reigning Devon County Champions, have been shortlisted for ‘School Team of the Year’ at the upcoming Express and Echo Sports Awards. The winner, to be announced at a star-studded ceremony on Wednesday 26 April 2017, will be the team that has worked best together
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The Year 6 girls in the Junior School certainly stepped up to the plate with a wonderful adaptation of The Tempest on Tuesday 28 March 2017. Anything Shakespeare at this young age can be a little daunting but the entire year put in some remarkable performances, quite undeterred by the magnitude of the challenge. Without
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What an incredible Spring Concert we witnessed on Thursday 23 March with over 80 girls taking part from Year 6 right through to the Sixth Form! A packed audience was privy to a huge array of performances from the slick timing of the flautists to exuberant song and dance from the younger pupils. There were
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Our Ten Tors teams and Duke of Edinburgh girls enjoyed a rare weekend of sunshine, if at times it was a little chilly, on Dartmoor over the weekend of 25/26 March 2017. More accustomed to driving rain, hail or a ferocious wind this was a rare treat and the girls dug deep to finish some
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Our Pre-Prep girls hosted a wonderful Mother’s Day Tea Party on Monday 27 March 2017. Mums were treated to a poem recital and two lovely songs by their daughters, who had also made beautiful personalised placemats and gave out bunches of daffodils, before a delicious afternoon tea. It was a perfect afternoon and a lovely
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Congratulations to Isabel Board in Year 5, who won a gold medal in the 200m backstroke and a bronze for the 200m freestyle at the Tiger Bay Open Meet in Cardiff on 18-19 March 2017. Isabel swims in the Competitive Development Squad for the Exeter Swimming Club but rarely has the opportunity to compete in
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The Lower Sixth geographers enjoyed four very full days in the breathtaking scenery of Snowdonia over 10 – 13 March 2017. From exploring upland and lowland glaciation, through to measuring till cliffs on the North Wales coast to find evidence of the direction of ice flow, there was plenty to investigate in this diverse landscape
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Following excellent results and a gold certificate in February’s UK Intermediate Mathematical Challenge, Jess Carr (Upper 5) and Shweta Banerjee (Upper 4) qualified to join an elite group of young mathematicians in the next round of the Challenge, which took place on Thursday 16 March. Over 250,000 students from more than 3,000 schools and colleges
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Students studying GCSE and A-level art have enjoyed a fantastic trip to London to see the David Hockney retrospective at Tate Britain. As the fastest-selling exhibition in the Tate’s history (and the largest to ever be staged there), it had a lot to live up to but our girls certainly weren’t disappointed, returning home fuelled
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Super Saturday saw our Under 14 Netball team, the Devon County Champions, compete in the National Schools Final at Welwyn Garden City, whilst Amelia Moody (Lower 5) was running her biggest race ever at the National Schools Cross Country Championships in Norwich. Given Amelia trains on Dartmoor, and was more than prepared for a hilly
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Nicky and Natalie Charity (Upper 4 and Upper 3 respectively) travelled to Wolverhampton on Sunday 5 March for the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu National Championships and both made the long journey worthwhile, returning home as silver medallists! Nicky won three very difficult fights and on her last one, deciding the gold medal, she was desperately unlucky,
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Our Lower 6 Geographers spent four days exploring the beautiful landscape of Snowdonia from 10 – 13 March on their annual fieldtrip. Work included looking at human geography fieldwork techniques in Betws Y Coed, exploring upland Glaciation up at the Nant Ffrancon valley and exploring the work of glaciers at Cwm Idwal. Sunday was spent
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Our U14 football team had a fantastic afternoon at the Catherine Fraser Memorial Football Tournament, held at the University of Exeter on Friday 10 March. The tournament, organised by Exeter City FC and Football in the Community, saw more than 140 girls from 14 secondary schools across the south west competing against each other in
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Our U14 basketball team took part in the Dynamik National Schools Tournament on Tuesday 14 March. They played extremely well, displaying some excellent teamwork and winning 53-39 against very strong opposition from Bristol Metropolitan Academy. They are now through to the next round of the competition which will take place later this term.
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On Wednesday 8 March, ten Lower 5 girls attended the Britain Needs Scientists event at the University of Exeter. This was an exciting conference, aimed to promote degrees and careers in science by giving students the chance to meet several undergraduate and postgraduate scientists in a ‘speed dating’ format. There was also an interactive science
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We celebrated World Book Day in style this year with numerous activities going on throughout the school. Highlights included amazing fancy dress in the Pre-Prep and Junior School, teachers and students reading excerpts from their favourite books in assembly, form room doors decorated as book covers and a Winnie the Pooh treasure hunt! We were
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Our fantastic school production, Beauty and the Beast, took place on 1, 2 and 3 March 2017 at the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter and what an absolutely brilliant production it was! The show was run with two casts, all of whom displayed tremendous talent and energy on-stage, and performances were sold-out each evening, with a
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A huge well done to all our junior girls who took part in the Stover Prep Schools Cross Country races on Tuesday 28 February. Without exception, they all tried their absolute hardest over some really testing courses. Our Under 9 team finished in 4th place with some amazing individual performances, including Ava Hepburn who finished
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The Maynard Wine Gums team of Miri Cooper Wedge, Bella Brent, Kitty Guinness, Anna Harries and Anya Hitt (all in the Upper 4) took part in the National Finals of the Animal Allies FIRST Lego League on Sunday 26 February 2017. The girls did brilliantly and scooped the trophy for runners up in the ‘Core
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Our Sixth Form History students enjoyed a fantastic trip to the historic city of Berlin over the half term holidays. From the reign of the Kaisers to the devastation of the Second World War and the drawn out conflict of the Cold War, it was the perfect destination for our keen historians who spent three
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We launched our five-week Forest School course for Pre-School children on Monday 27 February, led by our Head of Pre-Prep Mrs Cook, who is a trained Forest School leader. The children gathered twigs for the campfire, explored the undergrowth, whittled sticks to toast marshmallows on and planted the first primroses and daffodils in our flower
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Our Tropical Rainforest-themed Discovery Morning on Saturday 25 February was an amazing success, with a record 73 children attending! The Main School Hall was transformed into a rainforest for the morning, decorated with all things tropical, from monkeys to crocodiles and even a sparkly waterfall! As always, a wonderful range of activities were on offer
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We welcomed back Ben Bradshaw MP on Friday 24 February for a full and honest discussion about current political affairs with the Sixth Form. From Brexit and the Trump election right though to processed meat (and many other things in-between), this was a very revealing session showing deep insight into what faces a politician in
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Our in-house running legend, Amelia Moody (Lower 5) lived up to all expectations on Saturday 3 February to secure her spot in the national finals following an outstanding performance at the South West Schools’ Cross Country Championships in Truro. As the saying goes: A cross-country runner’s life is never straight forward! Driving rain made for
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