As part of Year 4’s Science work on sound, they’ve been learning all about how sound is made, how it travels, and how we hear it. To deepen their understanding, they were given a thoroughly groovy homework challenge: to design and make their own musical instruments that play different pitches! Using a variety of materials,

We would like to give an absolutely ginormous THANK YOU to everyone who donated to retiring collections at the Ballet & Modern Dance Showcase last week – through your immense generosity, we have been able to raise a whopping £400 for Hospiscare in loving memory of our late teacher, friend and colleague, Mrs Haworth. The

Recently, teams of magnificently maths-minded students in Lower 5 (Year 10) have been on the go travelling to the Met Office and then to Bridport to compete in the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme’s (AMSP) Year 10 Maths Feast, testing their skills with ‘an all-you-can-eat feast of problems’. Yum! The groups competed in several exciting rounds

This week’s warmer weather has meant for some lovely springtime sessions in Forest School! Year 3 enjoyed a sunny afternoon making their own nature wands using sticks, leaves, and other natural materials they could find. They also observed daffodils in detail, to examine their structure and consider how flowers attract insects. Year 4 had a

Recently, teams of magnificently maths-minded students in Lower 5 (Year 10) have been on the go travelling to the Met Office and then to Bridport to compete in the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme’s (AMSP) Year 10 Maths Feast, testing their skills with ‘an all-you-can-eat feast of problems’. Yum! The groups competed in several exciting rounds

What an amazing day of learning at West Town Farm on Tuesday! Reception and Year 1 saw spring in full swing, getting a look at the adorable newly born lambs and investigating how crops growing on the farm end up as our shopping. A beautiful springtime walk through the farmland then led to all sorts

In response to the BBC article published early last week entitled ‘Girls in England lag behind boys in maths and science study’, we’re proud to say that, as ever, The Maynard continues to buck all these trends. In a series to mark British Science Week, we’ve illustrated how a single-sex education can break down stereotypical

A group of our fantastic STEM enthusiasts took on a challenge of galactic proportions at the weekend, heading all the way to Imperial College London for none other than the UK Space Design Competition National Finals! They were part of 269 students total who were divided into four teams of seven schools each, tasked with

A massive thank you to Maynard Parents’ Association for funding ‘Talking Tins’, a brilliant new revision tool that has seen great use this week in GCSE PE! The tins allow teachers and students to record soundbites that can then be used in all sorts of creative ways: GCSE PE students had a whale of a

It’s World Book Day – one of our favourite days of the whole year! Today has been filled to the brim with a riot of exciting activities to share our love for everything literature. Just a few of the many highlights… Still to come, we’ll be sharing the fabulous Book Faces entries and the classroom

Our Lower 4 (Year 8) star bakers have well and truly proved that good things come in small packages – or rather, tasty things do! They’ve been busy making a delicious selection of bite-sized cocktail pastries complete with beautiful folding and plaiting, a lovely celebration snack that would certainly have partygoers coming back for more.

WOW! The latest update from Evie, our Upper Sixth (Year 13) creative extraordinaire and up-and-coming filmmaker, had absolutely blown our socks off. As part of ‘Project Paradiso’ organised by the Young Film Academy, she was one of 20-25 students out of 15,000 selected to help write, produce, direct, record and act in their own film

Year 4 had a fantastic time with Double Elephant at Exeter Phoenix exploring the world of printmaking this week! Throughout the day, everyone delved into this range of new artistic techniques to make beautiful monoprints and collagraphs, both inspired by the theme of animals in their habitats. They were encouraged to let their imaginations run

Last half term, imaginative Upper 4 (Year 9) applied a touch of creativity to their History lessons by producing their own emotive projects all about World War I. They were tasked with thinking outside the box to make an interpretation of an aspect of the conflict that mattered to them and to present this to

Sometimes learning really can be all fun and games! This term, our tech whizzes in Upper 4 (Year 9) have seen creativity and coding collide when developing their own interactive games using GDevelop: starting with a fireworks game, they mastered event-driven programming before moving on to platformer games with collision detection, scoring, and variables. Such