The Exeter School Junior Choir, Middle School Choir and Senior Choir joined together with friends of Exeter School for a wonderful Choral Society concert in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March. The concert began with Paul Patterson’s Magnificat, conducted by Director of Music Mr Tamblyn. This was a challenging and exciting piece for the choir to learn; everybody enjoyed perfecting the rhythmic and harmonic complexities, and thrilled by the eight-piece brass band and two percussionists, who added real drive and verve to the music. We were honoured to have Mr Patterson, an internationally...
Exeter School pupils were given the experience of a lifetime when two Sea Kings descended onto the playing fields on Friday 4 March.
The Royal Navy helicopters had flown from RNAS Yeovilton especially to give 80 lucky combined cadet force (CCF) cadets a 20-minute flight as part of their training.
Head of CCF section Dr Geoff Chapman said it was an amazing opportunity for the whole school and CCF. “The visit of the Sea Kings was exciting enough, but being able to get 80 cadets airborne was an unprecedented opportunity which I am sure pupils will remember for a long time....
Exeter School's F1 in Schools team, Burning Rubber, has won a place in the National Final of the STEM competition.
The team of six Year 10 pupils took four prizes at the F1 in Schools South West Regional Final held at Exeter University on Tuesday 1 March.
Burning Rubber began preparing for the F1 in Schools competition back in July and eight months later the team, accompanied by Dr Rowland and Miss Offord, have made it into the Final.
The competition was an all-day event, held in the Great Hall at the Streatham campus of the University of Exeter. In the morning, the...
Exeter School is welcoming three authors to school for World Book Day.
To celebrate the theme of Imaginary Worlds, pupils in Exeter Junior School will be carrying out story telling workshops with Katy Cawkwell on Thursday 4 March.
Storyteller Katy creates performances for adult, family and school audiences, based on traditional source material and has worked regularly in a wide range of schools, museums and other organisations, including Royal Opera House, English National Opera, The Barbican, The British Museum, The Museum of London and The National Gallery.
Upper Sixth Biology groups at Exeter School experienced gene technology workshops thanks to a visiting team from Exeter University Medical School.
Pupils used restriction endonucleases to digest plasmid DNA and then separated the fragments using gel electrophoresis.
The fragments were fluorescently labelled so could be seen using a UV lamp.
Head of Biology Julia Metcalf said this was a fantastic opportunity for the Upper Sixth to get hands on experience of the practical techniques they are learning about in Unit 5 of their A2 syllabus and techniques that several of...
Pupils from Exeter School’s Year 9 German classes took part in a variety of competitions on the theme of presents organised by the Goethe Institut in the run-up to Christmas.
Two groups of pupils were commended for their entries: one group wrote the speech bubbles for a comic strip and won sunglasses; the other recorded a story and won earphones.
Both groups also received pencil cases with a variety of goodies inside.
Linguist Hannah Sheppard said the competition was a great opportunity and really fun. Congratulations to all participants and well done to Hannah...
Two Exeter School pupils are celebrating their selection on the England Hockey squads.
Sixth Former Sophie Jefferson and Upper Fifth Former Bill Taylor have the opportunity to represent their country in the U18 and U16 squads respectively.
The two Exeter School hockey players are the latest pupils to be included in the national age group squads – six pupils have been selected over the last five years.
Head of Hockey Ed Jones said their selection put them in the top 26 players in the country at their age.
“The next training camp will take place over the half...
Exeter School is looking forward to performing three contrasting pieces for the annual Choral Society concert held at Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 17 March.
Made up of current pupils, parents, staff and guests, Choral Society will perform Fauré's Requiem, a favourite within the choral repertoire, featuring a solo from music scholar Rebecca German who will sing the famous Pie Jesu.
New to many performers and audiences will be contemporary composer Paul Patterson's Magnificat. The piece is a real showcase for the glorious combination of choir, brass, percussion and organ and...
1995 Exeter School leaver Ian Williams has entered the record books as the first skipper to win sailing's World Match Racing Tour title six times.
The former Senior Prefect and Captain of Hockey, and GAC Pindar sailor previously won the title in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2015, beating his own record when he won the title for the fifth time last year.
Ian won the Final of the Monsoon Cup on Saturday 30 January, and extended his record as the most successful match racing skipper in the history of the World Match Racing Tour.
Pupils studying AS Art and Design are currently preparing for an exhibition of their work, based on the theme of ‘Decay’, in the Brook Gallery in Exeter, from 25 to 29 January.
Exeter School will be the first school to display pupils’ work in ‘The White Room’ in the Gallery as part of their new educational programme.
Gallery Manager, Angela Yarwood, met with the pupils at the start of term to talk to them about all the aspects which are involved in putting on an exhibition, including selecting and presenting the work, promoting the exhibition and writing artist statements...
