Faye Hepburn (Lower 5) played a crucial role on the Devon British Showjumping team, when producing a faultless clear round at the County Show on Saturday 20 May 2017 to help take the team to an impressive victory in the inter-county competition. This was a very hot class involving numerous combinations who regularly compete at
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A group of 14 Lower 5 students enjoyed a very informative trip to Bristol on Friday 19 May 2017 for the Women in Medicine Conference, organised by Redmaids’ High School. Our students enjoyed the varied programme and they found the talks giving advice on medical school applications particularly helpful. All the students could choose to
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Congratulations to Lucy Harris-Deans, our new Head Girl for 2017-18, and to the six deputy head girls Miren Sowden, Megan Dalrymple-Hay, Bella Attenburrow, Fiona Broad, Niyoosha Mossadegh and Georgia Newstead! The girls were voted in by students in Lower 5, Upper 5 and Lower 6 plus the staff. The team is a little larger than
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We are all very excited to welcome retired guide dog Nula as the latest member of staff to join the Junior School! Mrs Fry, who has many years’ experience fostering guide dogs, will be her official owner, but Nula will be in school every day encouraging all sorts of aspects of learning and further enhancing
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Last week we welcomed William M. Bergman who has travelled from Bournemouth to share with our older students his first-hand experiences of the Holocaust. In 1938 Mr Bergman, who was born in East Prussia, went into hiding with his mother whilst his grandfather and father were sent to Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. This was
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Friday 5 May 2017 witnessed our first ever Gym and Dance Showcase by the entire Junior School and Pre-Prep girls and what an incredibly memorable performance it was! The highlights are too many to mention but our huge congratulations to all those who took part! “Wow, wow, wow! We absolutely loved the Gym and Dance
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All three Maynard teams successfully completed their respective Ten Tors hikes over the weekend of 6/7 May 2017 and congratulations to them all. We also fielded seven individuals who took part with other teams and, again, who all completed incident-free. A bitterly cold start developed into a gloriously sunny weekend with near perfect conditions to
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Congratulations to Fiona Shi (Upper 6) and Ellen Player (Lower 6) for their excellent results in the Exeter and East Devon Ogden Trust #Love Physics Film Makers’ Competition. Fiona achieved 1st place in the Sixth Form category for her 3-minute film about the Big Bang whilst Ellen achieved 3rd place for her presentation on the
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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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