Month: December 2019

We had the great honour of welcoming Susie Appleby and Amy Garnett, the recently appointed Exeter Chief’s Women’s Team coaches, in on Friday 6 December 2019 to put the Lower 5 (Year 10) and Lower 4 (Year 8) girls through their paces. To have coaching of this calibre is a major coup – Amy is

A change of venue, a bounty of beautiful craft stalls, a magical grotto and a well-stocked café resulted in a bumper turn out at the MPA Christmas Fair on Saturday 7 December 2019. It was a fantastic day and our huge thanks to all those members of the MPA for their organisation in making it

We wish Erin in Upper 4 (Year 9) the best of luck as she travels to Spain over the weekend 13 – 16 December 2019 for her upcoming tournament as part of the UK Lions under 13 Hockey Squad. Erin was spotted by the selectors whilst playing in a tournament during the summer in Nottingham

Congratulations to all the girls that took ABRSM and Trinity music exams during the Autumn Term. We received a very high number of merits and distinctions across the board but particularly well done to Lizzie (Grade 8 voice, merit), Thalia (Grade 8 flute, merit) and Kristina who, at only just 13 years old, achieved an

The Lower 5 (Year 10) Art students enjoyed a fantastic trip to the Tate Modern in London on Saturday 7 December. In particular, they were blown away by the all-consuming experience of the Olafur Eliasson exhibition and equally enjoyed the very contrasting and colourful works by Yinka Shonibare. They have returned to their art classes

Congratulations to our ‘Sports Performance of the Month’ nominees who, for November, are: The U18 Hockey Squad who have qualified as one of the top two teams in the West for the National Finals at the Olympic Lee Valley Park in March. The Junior Girls Swim Squad who competed recently at the ESSA Secondary Schools

As this year’s Maynard School Young Enterprise Team, our aim is to raise awareness for the endangerment of our bees, who help to fertilise plants and therefore maintain their essential position in our food chain. Please can you help us out? Our locally sourced cards and envelopes are produced from recycled paper, our designs from

Training is now in full swing as we prepare for the Ten Tors Challenge in May 2020. The Maynard will be submitting two 35-mile and 45-mile teams and one 55-mile team for the event and the squad is being superbly prepped on the winter wilds of Dartmoor. Undeterred by the forecast of horizontal rain and

The entire Year 5 recently performed at the St Thomas Dementia Group ‘Remember that Song’ session and certainly impressed all those who were there. The coordinator of the event wrote in to express her gratitude and her comments made us extremely proud of the girls: “Thank you SO much for your visit to Remember that

An elf has arrived in Year 2 with a letter from the North Pole, and is causing much excitement! We have been correcting his spellings and grammar in Literacy, and writing sentences about him using conjunctions. In Maths, we have taken a poll from the children in Year 3 and Year 5 to help us

Congratulations to Polly in Year 6 who put in some incredible performances on her pony, Rosie, in the Junior Show Jumping class during the Westcountry Equine Fair on Saturday 7 December 2019. They both finished clear at 70cm, 80cm, 90cm, 1m and then in the final round at 1.10m. At only 10-years old (in a

Our Middle School Choir had the honour, once again, of performing at the Lord Mayor’s Christmas Carol Service in the Cathedral on Monday 2 December. The girls sung beautifully alongside The City of Exeter Railway Band and The Exeter Police & Community Choir – a wonderful afternoon which marks the start of Christmas in Exeter!

Our thanks to the three professionals who spared their time to give some fascinating talks with the Lower 5, Upper 5 and Sixth Formers about their careers for this month’s Biz Whizz session. Richard Daws drew an interested crowd to his session about ‘A career less ordinary’ in the Entertainment Industry, Corporal Callum Hales talked

Huge congratulations to our four cross country runners who all performed superbly at the Exeter versus East Devon round despite the damp, chilly and slippery conditions. Our Lower 5 squad all qualified for the County Round in the Intermediate Girls section and Emma in Lower Sixth also put in an excellent performance, finishing third to

The school was buzzing with creativity when the Upper 3 and Lower 4 took to the stage for an informal showcase of their recent classwork. Both of the Upper 3 classes took poems from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ by T.S. Elliot (the inspiration for the musical ‘Cats’) while Lower 4 focused on using

This year we sent out nearly 150 shoeboxes to Moldova for the Christmas Shoebox Appeal with the charity, Christian Response to Eastern Europe. Hugh Scudder, our link with the charity has remarked that the poverty is so great for the children living in Moldova that receiving one of these boxes can very often be ‘the

Congratulations to our swimming team who all enjoyed a wonderful experience at the ESSA Secondary Schools’ Team Championships on Saturday 16 November. It was an amazing experience to swim in the London 2012 Olympic Pool and they were very impressive to finish 25th out of the whole country, a move up from their 27th ranking

What better way to spend a wet and miserable evening than in the company of 80 talented musicians! This year’s Autumn Concert saw a large variety of ensembles and soloists perform and all their hard work and rehearsing really paid off, with performances to be proud of. Our Sixth Form soloists shone and the music