Drumroll please! The numbers are in from last week’s Christmas Fayre and it raised an incredible… £2900! We’d like to say a huge, huge thanks to the MPA for raising so much money for the school, to the vendors who came along and to everyone who stopped by.

The U12 hockey team played some thrilling matches at The King’s School, Ottery St Mary, earlier this week. Going head-to-head with other teams, they brought their A game and Team 1 won 5-0 with Team 2 narrowly losing 1-0. Amazing play all round!

Our A Level Geographers went beyond the classroom to apply their learning to climate change at a Plymouth University conference on Changing Spaces. Considering global issues on a local level, they completed a workshop on creating and designing zero carbon communities with an emphasis on the Culm Garden Village near Cullumpton. The Garden Village has

Our incredible U16 netball team were at the top of their game today, going above and beyond to sail through to the Netball National Schools Competition Regional Finals! Their superb skills and talent mean that they have qualified to represent Devon in the Regional Round in Bournemouth next February. We are so thrilled for them

We saw some fabulous footie yesterday at the U13 football team’s round 3 match in the National Schools Cup! There was great energy and enthusiasm right until the final whistle, and the team only narrowly lost to Truro High School For Girls. Great job everyone!

On Saturday, Darcey, Jesse, Konnie and Grace (Upper 6th, Year 13) and Izzie, Nandipa and Victoria (Lower 6th, Year 12) went all the way to the stars in the regional round of the UK Space Design Competition at the University of Exeter. The students worked as a team to design and cost a ‘maintenance facility

Earlier this week swift-footed students put their all into the Exeter v East Devon Cross Country event, and our girls were absolutely brilliant! Freya in Upper 3 (Year 7), Issy in Lower 4 (Year 8 ) and Issy in Lower 5 (Year 10) have all made it through to the next round in January. We’re

We had some incredible results in the recent Mathematical Olympiad for Girls with Megan (Upper 6th), Helena (Upper 6th) and Joey (Lower 6th) all gaining distinction. With an incredibly high score Joey also qualified for the British Olympiad follow on round. Only one thousand students are invited to compete in this round out of the tens of

The U15 netball team were on fire last night with an incredible match versus Exeter School. We got many tips and interceptions and consistently turned over the ball, and we ended the game with an impressive 56-18 win. Smashed it!

After an outstanding effort from all teams over the course of last week, despite not winning the competition nationally, we are delighted to announce that the team who scored most points out of all the Upper 4 (Year 9) Maynardians in the GCHQ’s National Language Competition 2023 is …. Team BRIGHT DELIGHTFUL SCORPION! (AKA Holly, Harriett,

A frost was in the air, magic was afoot, and a classic fairytale was brought to life by the Lower 4 (Year 8) performance of Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen last night! The audience was on the edge of their seats watching a tale filled with witches, crows, royalty and the chilling Snow Queen herself.

Whoop whoop – we are through to the Regional Finals! What a triumph for our U13 hockey team at the recent County Finals tournament! Despite facing tough competition, they played absolutely brilliantly and scored some heart-stopping goals throughout, ultimately being crowned the second best team in the whole of Devon! A sweet treat afterwards was

We were as proud as punch to learn that Daisy (Upper 3/Year 7) was back in the gymnastics medals again, winning silver on the vault at the English Riviera Open. What fabulous news and a very, very well done from us all here at The Maynard!

Enormous congratulations to Sophie (Lower 6) who has been selected onto the Archery GB National Talent Development Programme and is now in full training to take on the crème de la crème in this incredibly competitive sport at national event across the UK. We wish her absolutely every success and can’t wait to follow her

It was a full house at our Gymnastics Club with lots of lovely Year 6s and 7s donning the Maynard leotard! We couldn’t resist the photo opportunity despite taking it only moments after their ‘strong’ session, working on muscular strength and endurance. And, quite remarkably, they are still smiling!

The Year 5 girls have been learning about Just So Stories, exploring their features in preparation for writing their own Kipling-esque animal stories. 5GW had a timely visit from Mrs Willcock’s dog Ralph, which helped to inspire some story title ideas… ‘How the Unicorn Got Its Horn, How the Cat Got Its Tail, How The

We all love the Tregear Art Rooms! Not only are they glorious architecturally with their huge windows and vast swathes of Virginia creeper outside, but they’re a hub of enormous creativity … as testified by our lovely Year 6s who have been producing some stunning Pop Art! Not ones for a silent classroom, they were

There was much scratching of heads as our judges battled to separate the entries in our ‘Secret Me’ art competition for Years 7 – 9 (Upper 3 – Upper 4)! It really was the toughest of tasks but, when push came to shove, they all unanimously agreed that Molly’s quirky and creative depiction of her

We absolutely love a good trip … and our Year 2 girls were treated to a fabulous day out at the Tiverton Toy Museum in early October. They devoured the opportunity to dress up like little Victorians and play with all the toys through the ages, culminating in a fascinating discussion (with very astute observations)

The Fabulous 4s had a fantastic day out at the Plymouth College Hockey Festival, playing some lovely games against Truro School, Stover School, Mount Kelly and the hosts. Not only did they have enormous fun, they came away having improved their play considerably during the course of the afternoon – a very, very well done

We’re so proud to be partnering with some of our local schools and sharing our professional expertise wherever we can. Huge thanks to the lovely Miss Cousins who is wholeheartedly epitomising our charitable ethos by heading over to St Leonard’s Primary School in her free time to take a PE lesson with their Year 3s

Enormous congratulations to Zoe (Lower 5) who has been selected onto The National Youth Orchestra’s ‘Inspire’ programme, giving her access to incredible hands-on workshops and residencies across the country. This is a dream come true for Zoe who absolutely loves her music and recently gained a Distinction for her Grade 8 Viola. We wish her

Award-winning Classicist, Emily Hauser, gave a wonderful reading of her new book, “Ancient Love Stories”, and spoke about Sappho and the Sacred Band of Thebes in her talk in September. It was wonderful to hear such a range of stories about love and different types of relationships. The girls were particularly enthusiastic to hear her

Huge congratulations to our equestrian athletes, Georgia and Hannah, who competed in the NSEA dressage qualifiers at Bicton Arena last weekend. They both produced beautiful tests, with Hannah taking third place on a score of 74.42% in a hugely competitive Prelim Class and, in doing so, qualifying for the National Championships at Addington in October.

Mrs Wood always runs a mega-exciting lunchtime Science Club and the Lower 4s had a great time earlier this week mastering the art of slime making. It’s a whole lot harder than you would imagine, with exact measurements required on top of a rigorous and lengthy kneading process. Such precision, however, only heightens the sense

Our Under 13 Hockey teams kicked the new season off to a flying start on Wednesday with both the As and Bs scoring two excellent victories against The King’s School in Ottery St Mary. This certainly bodes very well for the term ahead and fingers crossed they can maintain the momentum and repeat their incredible

Our Under 14 and Under 13 teams enjoyed a fabulous few days of sport, friendship, adventure and laughter at the GSA Condover Hall netball residential at the weekend. This stunning Elizabethan manor house in Shropshire provided the perfect backdrop to a competitive couple of days of netball fixtures culminating in a silver medal for the

Our friends and neighbours in The Lodge Care Home were treated to a wonderful afternoon of entertainment courtesy of our talented Year 4s! Under the musical direction of Mrs Smith, who we are so incredibly lucky to have as our Head of Junior School Music, the girls sang a beautiful array of musical numbers to

Halloween may be over, but Year 6 still enjoyed whipping up some blood smoothies to learn more about the human circulatory system. The sweets represented the red blood cells, the marshmallows were the white blood cells, some cereal hoops were added to represent platelets and orange juice was used to represent the plasma. Tasty!

Our budding musicians in the Reception Class enjoyed a wonderful first lesson with Mrs Smith this week (Wednesday 20th September), learning all the names of the classroom percussion instruments and the many different ways to play them. And, as Mrs Smith also points out, “Just as importantly, they also learned the signals to stop playing!”