The latest phase of improvements to Exeter School has now come to an end with the inauguration of the enlarged dining hall and its smart copper-clad façade.
The newly extended School Hall will be used to its full capacity this week with the Senior School Production of ‘An Italian Straw Hat’ running 28 – 30 November.
Over the past 18 months, the Exeter School Governors have expressed their confidence in the vibrant future by investing well over £2m in providing enhanced facilities across the whole School.
The exciting new Atrium extension to the Junior School, opened...
A local teenager has been named as principal composer with the National Youth Orchestra (NYO).
17 year-old Michael Brailey from Crediton, will be responsible for working with musicians in the Orchestra to create new symphonic music as well as diverse ensemble pieces.
Michael said: “Being in NYO 2014 means an unbelievable amount to me as a composer. Nowhere else would I have the chance to work so closely and learn from a whole symphony orchestra of talented musicians who are my age.
“The result for me is an incredible experience of being able to hear my own music...
Exeter School has been named as one of the UK’s best schools on the Sunday Times Best Schools Guide.
The school came 81st on the league table list of 425 independent schools in the UK.
The rating came from the schools exam results which saw over 80% of its students get A* or A at GCSE and over 83% get A* to B in A-levels.
Headmaster of Exeter School, Bob Griffin said: “League tables are, of course, only one of the ways by which to measure the work of good schools, but these pleasing results are testament to our pupils’ hard work and their teachers’ skillful and...
Exeter School is hosting a talk by American professional white water paddler Erik Boomer and Canadian polar adventurer Sarah McNair-Landry on Wednesday 20 November at 7pm.
The pair recently completed a gruelling 65-day expedition across Baffin Island, covering over a 1000km by kayak, ski and foot.
Boomer and Sarah will talk about this expedition, and their past adventures that have led them here.
The evening will also include a showing of the kayaking film "Kadoma" which documents an expedition to the DR Congo led by the late Hendri Coetzee.
An Exeter School teacher has been awarded the Lord Lieutenant’s Certificate for Meritorious Service.
Mathematics teacher and Combined Cadet Force Commander, Dr Geoff Chapman was presented with the certificate over half-term.
Headmaster Mr Griffin said he had increased the school’s large contingent through his inspirational and efficient approach each week, on summer camps and Easter Adventure Training.
“He has modernised the corps, developing its activities to include a tri-service entry cadre, new uniform and DoE awards and overseen three successful biennial...
The winners of a region-wide mathematics competition, run by Exeter Mathematics School, were awarded their prizes by the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, in a ceremony held on Thursday 7 November at the Department for Education.
The overall winners, from The Royal High School, Bath, demonstrated their mathematical and communications skills by providinga solution to ‘Bezout’s Buckets’ in an entertaining fashion.
The winning video: http://youtu.be/8vO_EcCW4jo
The competition, which was open to all secondary schools in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset...
Exeter School pupil David Salmon achieved the highest marks in the country in A Level Electronics and Applied Science.
The 2013 Exeter School leaver received 595 UMS marks out of 600, the highest of all candidates who studied Electronics and Applied Science with the exam board, WJEC, in 2013.
The Chief Executive of WJEC, Mr Gareth Pierce, said this was an outstanding achievement and evidence of the hard work of David and his teachers in preparing him for the assessment.
Head of Electronics Department Dr Houghton, said David was a outstandingly able and hardworking...
The children in Exeter School’s Junior School took part in a Poetry Competition for National Poetry day. Inspired by ‘Water, Water Everywhere’ from Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner , the poems focused on the subject of water and what it means to us, The children’s poems covered water on our beaches, rivers, the water in our bodies and the water we drink and how lucky we are to be able to take it for granted. There were three main winners across each of the year groups and ten runners up. The prizes will be awarded in the Junior School Assembly on Monday. The Prince of Wales and...
Exeter School welcomed BBC Radio 3’s Stephen Johnson to its annual Speech Day event last week (19 September). Johnson gave a speech on the power of music at the event discussing its use in treatment in cases of depression and Alzheimer’s before presenting prizes to both Junior and Senior School pupils. Mr Johnson then spent the following Friday afternoon in school, meeting pupils before opening the newly refurbished and extended Music Department at the Discovering Music event on 20 September. He there gave a talk on a modernistic quartet movement by Webern and a movement from a Brahms...
