Seeing the Maynard students be so excited about Christmas has inspired staff across the school to dive headfirst into the festive season too! Our long-awaited first “Festive Banger” of the year was performed by our marvelous Maths department, alongside instrumentals by Grace and Helena, flutists Miss Daniels and Mrs Dursley, and help from Maya (arms).

Audiences were delighted by today’s Junior School Christmas Singalong! Years 3 to 6 came together to perform a sparkling assortment of Christmas songs, from classics like “Hark the herald angels sing” and “Little Donkey” to fun hits like “Christmas Calypso” and “Nazareth”, plus some exciting instrumental performances from the amazing “Ukuladies”. A huge thank you

In the latest U12 hockey fixture, the girls played incredibly well against Torquay Girls Grammar School. The A team drew 2-2 in a tightly contested game, using the space well and gaining confidence throughout to travel with the ball. The B team won 4-0 and played exceptionally. Extra congratulations to Players of the Match Freya,

The Junior School Council have designed a wonderful Christmas star which is now taking pride of place in none other than Exeter Cathedral! The Maynard star will dazzle passers-by and represent our four values – Kindness, Courage, Integrity and Community. Lauren and Iris represented the School Council at the Star of Hope event earlier this

At today’s annual Reindeer Race, our Pre-Prep were raring to go as reindeers in training, flying by with antlers and bells galore. Motivated by jolly Christmas music and the ever fabulous Mrs Fabian, they worked together in teams to dash across the PAC, clearing obstacles and getting to grips with some sparkling tinsel reins. Rudolph

Our Year 6 girls shared their joyful festive spirit with our friends at The Lodge Care Home yesterday by performing some beautiful Christmas carols. They had a wonderful and appreciative audience who absolutely loved hearing the girls perform classic songs, and the afternoon ended with wide applause and fuzzy feelings all round. Thank you to

We’re so pleased to hear some really exciting news from Paris! Alumna Nat, after having been such a brilliant A-Level French student last year, is now having the most prestigious and memory-making experience on her gap year before she follows her dreams of taking her French studies to university… “I have recently started the Cours de

Pre-Prep put on a delightful Christmas show this week, bringing home the holiday spirit with a heartwarming tale of snowmen, robins, snowflakes and more. What a wonderful way to celebrate the festive season – well done everyone!

The Middle School Choir and Chamber Choir were delighted to lend their voices to the Lord Mayor’s Carol Service, filling up the lofty and atmospheric Exeter Cathedral with memorable festive music alongside Exeter Railway Band. The service was raising money for the Lord Mayor’s chosen charity, Force Cancer Charity, and The Maynard was the only

The History department were thrilled to visit Buckland Abbey with our delightful Lower 4 yesterday. The former home of Sir Francis Drake was beautifully decorated for Christmas and the students were treated to fascinating facts about the Tudor celebration of Christmas on our tour, alongside learning about Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe. Undoubtedly, the highlight

The tightly contested Junior School House Hockey competitions have now come to a close! Despite rain, snow and hail, the girls have so enjoyed their training sessions this hockey season and performed superbly with lots of support from wonderful parents too. In all three house competitions, everyone represented their houses with pride, showing how well

Congratulations to our fabulous equestrian team who have qualified for the NSEA Eventers Challenge National Finals in May! Georgie, Polly, Sophie and Sienna were on flying form at the recent qualifier at Bicton Arena, coming second in class and sailing through to the finals. Hallowed Hickstead here we come!

Massive congratulations to Upper 6th student Lilly, who received the Blue Boy Award from the St. John’s Hospital Educational Foundation! Her citation is nothing short of inspiring: A fabulous student throughout her time at the school, this student wears her heart on her sleeve and has sought out every opportunity to act as an advocate

Last week, the U13 A & B Hockey team played their last game of the friendly season versus Uffculme. They had a fantastic finale and faced down the cold weather and snow to win their matches 7-1 (U13 A) and 6-0 (U13 B) – meaning that this is their second unbeaten hockey season in a

The Year 6 U11 Hockey Squad played superbly in the Devon round of the National Schools In2Hockey competition. They’ve shown incredible progress this term and went above and beyond to storm ‘In2’ the top three, coming 3rd in the tournament overall. We’re so proud of the team and their impressive skills on the field!

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!