The U12 A and B hockey teams had a big start to the week with their first ever hockey fixture for Senior School on Monday! Playing against Exeter School, they were absolutely brilliant and showed terrific teamwork, making excellent use of techniques they’d learned in training. They came away with a win and a loss,

There’s always a fascinating project or experiment bubbling away in the science labs! In our lunchtime STEM club, the fantastic Upper 3 (Year 7) girls have been learning to solder and are now completing their own soldering project to make electronic Christmas tree circuits with flashing LED lights, set to be finished in time for

Our hockey teams seem nigh on unstoppable this term! Last week, the brilliant U16 hockey team visited Plymouth Marjon University for the Tier 2 County Hockey tournament and played some absolutely fantastic games, improving as the tournament went on and showing the Maynard team spirit in spades. Their hard work paid off and the team

Year 6 are making their first foray into Fashion and Textiles! As part of their introduction to the subject and our modern Textiles suite, they’re currently learning about all things fabric, from how to safely use a sewing machine and iron to how to use a pattern template. They’ll be putting these exciting new skills

Our amazing Sixth Formers have begun offering bespoke academic mentoring to Year 11s at Paignton Academy, sharing their subject know-how with younger students readying for GCSEs! This revolutionary new initiative will have Sixth Form girls video chatting with students in Paignton to explain different topics, walk them through activities and overall give them another level

A highlight among the oodles of lunchtime clubs happening each week is our ‘Chocolate and Chat’ big sister mentoring programme, in which the lovely Lower Sixth regularly meet up with the wonderful Upper 3s (Year 7) and play games, offer support and act as a friendly face for them as they settle in to Senior

Huge congratulations to our brill equestrian team for their outstanding performance at the Bicton NSEA showjumping event last Sunday! We’re thrilled to say the team of Georgia, Matilda, Charlotte and Polly came third in the 80cm, and more ‘well done’s are in order for Polly and Bea placing 5th and 10th respectively in the individual

A trip through the art studios makes it abundantly clear that our young artists are just incredible, and last year’s GCSE students were no exception! All artists produced marvellous work and Anna and Hazel, now having stayed at The Maynard into Lower Sixth (Year 12), were specially commended by OCR for their GCSE Art pieces

Cricket is building at The Maynard! We have even more incredible sports news to share – a host of our super sports stars have been selected for Devon County Cricket training! They’ll be working with Devon’s best of the best to chase their cricket aspirations, and who knows how high they’ll fly? Massive congratulations to

The U14 sports teams are flying lately! Our U14 hockey team played fantastically at Plymouth Marjon University in today’s competitive tournament against top local rivals. They were simply amazing and have stormed through to the Regional Finals – truly securing themselves as a team to watch! Very well done to all players!

Our fantastic purpose-built Food & Nutrition room is always a smorgasbord of creativity and culinary technique. It’s hard to miss the delicious smells that float down the corridor from our young chefs’ handiwork – Lower 4’s (Year 8) pizzas were positively mouthwatering last Friday! Students come away from lessons with not only delicious food cooked

‘Kicking’ the year off to a brilliant start, our fab U13 footballers had their first cup match on Thursday! Despite a loss, they had such a fun time playing and coming together as a team with Player of the Match Aliana scoring an awesome goal – a fantastic memory for those who played this as

For Maynardians with a love for all things netball, our recent GSA netball weekend away at Condover Hall was the ultimate trip! Our remarkable U13 and U14 netball teams had a cracking time, consisting of a whirlwind of playing netball, thrilling activities like high ropes, a fan-favourite umpiring school session, and even being starstruck while

Our athletes are going for GOLD! 10 of our sports stars in the making had a fantastic time at ‘Girls Go Gold’ last week – an annual GSA event dedicated to uplifting the next generation of women in sport, held this year at Sherborne Girls School. They started the day bright and early with a

Brilliant Upper Sixth (Year 13) biologists had a fascinating workshop at science and arts centre We The Curious in Bristol last week! Their Biology A-level includes learning about all things DNA, so this trip was designed to be the perfect opportunity to dive deeper into the topic by conducting polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and gel

We have even more netball news to absolutely blow you away! Yesterday, our awe-inspiring U14 netball team played an incredible, incredible match for the ages against one of the best netball schools in the country, Millfield School! It was impossible to separate them and they went toe-to-toe with their opponents every step of the way,

A new season of sport is now well and truly underway, and what a marvellously bright and sunny start we’ve had! We have a sweep of brilliant netball news to share, starting with fun and friendly matches against Truro yesterday. The U14, U16 and U19 teams were raring to go after the break, and it

We were absolutely delighted to share one of the newest jewels in our crown – our recently refurbished and now beautifully modern Sixth Form Centre – with the wider Maynard community on Thursday evening! A full house of guests were welcomed into the transformed building and had a private view of the brand new space,

We have been absolutely blown away by the wonderfully selfless actions of one of our youngest Maynardians, Cami! In August, she raised a staggering £1300 for the fantastic charity ‘Young Lives vs Cancer’ by completing one mile every single day for the whole month – an incredible endeavour embodying the kindness central to our school

We’re off to an absolutely cracking start this academic year! Our brilliant-as-ever Upper 3 (Year 7) girls who have just made the big move up from the Junior School, as well as our amazing new joiners (settling in superbly already!), had a fantastic time getting to know one another and all their lovely tutors during

Our amazing adventurers just can’t be stopped! Even before the new academic year started this week, girls taking part in the Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s award were completing their extraordinarily self-sufficient journey in the great outdoors on an expedition to the Lake District. At the end of August, the plucky DofE participants enjoyed a fantastic

We couldn’t be more excited for term to start again this week, and amongst welcoming students new and old to another fantastic year at The Maynard, we’re completely over the moon to also be introducing our brilliant Lower and Upper Sixth (Years 12 and 13) to their very own brand spanking new Sixth Form Centre!

Students, families and teachers alike at The Maynard are celebrating the many, many triumphs of our marvellous Upper 5s (Year 11s), who brought home another altogether wonderful set of GCSE results in 2024!  “It’s utterly brilliant,” said Head, Liz Gregory, “And I’m truly over the moon for them all! It really is just rewards for such

We are beyond delighted to announce that The Maynard’s phenomenal Class of 2024 have performed fantastically at A-level! It is crystal clear that every girl can be hugely proud of what they’ve achieved. Liz Gregory, Head of this leading girls’ school, expressed her joy: “These girls have worked incredibly hard and thoroughly deserve their impressive

Our Upper Sixth Leavers’ Ball at Sandy Park was an absolute hit on Thursday, and a delightful last ‘hurrah’ for Maynardians ready to take the next step beyond the school gates! With a prize-giving ceremony, a glass of bubbles, a delicious three-course meal and fabulous live band The Cove Club, it was dazzling night to

Another academic year has come to an end! We welcomed The Maynard community in full force to our end-of-year Summer Celebration at Sandy Park yesterday, all in the name of commemorating the staggering number of successes and achievements of 2023/24. Huge congratulations to each of the prize winners and an enormous thanks to all the

Our iconic Senior School Sports Day was a riot of colour, cheer and Maynard community spirit as always! Today’s jam-packed sport spectacular saw Senior girls having loads of fun representing their Houses – Armourers, Goldsmiths, Haberdashers and Merchants – in classic field and track events at Exeter Arena, all topped-off with hilarious commentary from Dr

With the excitement of 2024/25 coming up in the next few months, we can begin looking ahead to some of the fantastic things in store for the next academic year – one of those things being the leadership of our incredible new Head Girl Team! They have already taken their first steps as school ambassadors