Well done to our Cross Country team, Katy, Sophie C, Sophie B and Emma, who represented Exeter at the Devon Schools Cross Country Championships at Stover on 18 January. They all ran fabulously well with Katie convincingly winning the Inter Girls race, qualifying to represent Devon in the next round! Congratulations!

We are delighted to be launching our Forest School sessions for Pre-Schoolers again on Tuesday 28 January 2020 with five lessons open to all girls aged three and four. Our beautiful city centre Forest School is situated on site here at The Maynard in a safe and compact area specifically adapted to suit the needs

Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s musical production, Legally Blonde, taking place at the Barnfield Theatre from 11-13 March 2020. The Friday finale is already filling up and traditionally these shows prove a complete sell-out, so please don’t delay if you are hoping to come along for what promises to be yet another

Our sincere thanks to all those who came to the Christmas Carol Concert at the end of last term. We are delighted to say that over £500 was raised for the Friends of Buburi, a charity dedicated to improving health and saving lives in Western Kenya. “This is truly amazing and so greatly appreciated. Please

We are delighted to have been voted again as one of the top ten best value private schools in the UK by the Daily Telegraph in January 2020. We continue to achieve this status year-on-year based on our academic excellence, the sheer volume of extra-curricular opportunities and our sporting prowess versus the “significantly more manageable

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

We are delighted to have been awarded the Sunday Times Schools Guide 2020 Southwest Independent Secondary School of the Year. This prestigious award, officially published in the 27th edition of Parent Power on Sunday 24 November 2019, is triggered byour incredible A-level and GCSE results in the summer, but is also judged on the wider ethos and

We are looking forward to our next Biz Whizz careers talks taking place on Friday 29 November 2019. We have three incredibly talented and successful speakers booked covering the Armed Forces (with a particular focus on the RAF), the realm of opportunities within the entertainment industry (by Emmy Award winning film editor) and Artificial Intelligence,

Despite continuous sleet, snow and torrential rain at the recent Tier 4 U18 Hockey Finals held at Clifton College, our Under 18 Team played on undeterred to win all bar one of their six pool games to secure a place in the semi-finals. Faced with a very strong Wycliffe College, they continued their winning streak to take a

Full credit to the Sixth Form for their inspired idea to put on ‘a fashion show with a twist’ to raise money for Children in Need on Friday 15 November 2019. Bradley Hall was packed with students, all coming to see how each staff member had been dressed by their tutor groups. To name but

We had great fun welcoming over 80 prospective and current pupils to our ‘Enchanted Forest’ Discovery Morning on Saturday 16 November 2019. They all had a great time at the various activities which included cosying up around the fire at Forest School, baking delicious Christmas Tree themed patisseries in the Food & Nutrition department, deciphering

Students across the school enjoyed some incredible presentations and a gymnastic workshop with former GB Olympic gymnast, Craig Heap. The Junior School and Pre-Prep were treated to a very entertaining assembly about the trials and tribulations of being a top-level athlete. Likewise, the Sixth Formers were reminded that hard work is key to everything and

Tickets are now on sale for our Autumn Concert, being held on Thursday 21 November 2019 in the Performing Arts Centre from 7.30pm. This is always a truly colourful affair, showcasing our wide range of music ensembles and promises to be yet another fabulous night out! Tickets can be purchased from School Reception at £5