Exeter School is pleased to complete this year’s Oxbridge admissions process with the announcement that four pupils have been offered places.
At Cambridge, alumna Kate Marks has an unconditional offer to read History at Murray Edwards New Hall and Aidan Higgins an offer to read Engineering at St John’s.
At Oxford, Luke Malone has been offered a place at St Catherine’s to read Materials Science and Toby de Mendonça has an offer to read Chemistry.
2015 leaver Kate is on the RFU National Youth Council, a Young Ambassador for the 2015 Rugby World Cup and Captain of the...
Exeter School succeeded in raising over £6,000 for charity during the autumn term and was placed in the top 1% of donors on the JustGiving website.
The school’s charity fundraising day which took place in September raised over £2,000 for local charity, Hospiscare, as well as the Karen Hill Tribes Trust run by alumnus Will Harnden.
In the Junior School, pupils raised money for Papyrus, the national UK charity dedicated to the prevention of young suicide, Children in Need and the Exeter Foodbank.
Senior School charities included the Tearfund Appeal for Refugees,...
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 and past pupils, parents and staff, 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 In Paradisum. 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 and brass, and will provide a stunning...
Exeter School is the recipient of a 2015 Good Schools Guide Award for A Level Physics for the second year in a row.
This is the seventh year that the co-educational independent school has received a Good Schools Guide Award for Science.
Every year, the Good Schools Guide gives awards to schools to celebrate teaching excellence in individual subjects, basing these awards on WOW Factor calculations which are a combination of relative popularity, relative performance, absolute performance and percentage taking.
Dr Wilson, Director of Science at Exeter School, said he...
Carnegie Medal winning author, Tim Bowler, visited Exeter School on Wednesday 4 November to deliver creative writing workshops to all Lower Fifth classes.
Tim is renowned for his psychological thrillers for young adults and he challenged pupils to consider an imaginary place in which something reasonably believable, yet strange or unexpected, happens.
Using this method, which he sometimes employs in his own work, some amazing and wonderful stories were rapidly emerging. Pupils volunteered to read out their work, which proved to be imaginative and often enticing, and were...
Exeter School Sixth Formers got a taste of the working world when they experienced two weekends of practice interviews.
The Upper Sixth Formers were interviewed by local and national professionals, including Exeter School alumni, at Gilbert Stephens LLP Solicitors and the Research, Innovation, Learning and Development (RILD) building in Exeter.
Every year, during late September and early October, Exeter School’s Upper Sixth pupils are given the chance to experience a general interview away from school.
Every effort is made to match the pupil to an interviewer with...
An Exeter School scientist spent one month on a Nuffield research placement at Exeter University gaining an insight into scientific research.
Upper Sixth Former Robbie Bell spent four weeks in Exeter University's Biophysics department; running a research project alongside a lab partner, working nine to five, five days a week.
Robbie said the experience was incredibly independent and unique.
"No other work placement that I have seen gives the individual so much control over what they do, or trusts them with techniques so fully.
On Wednesday 30 September, 60 budding Year 6 mathematicians were welcomed to Exeter School to get involved in a morning of Perplexing Puzzles. Pupils were from St Michael’s Primary, Heavitree, West Hill Primary School, Clyst St Mary Primary School, Ide Primary School and Exeter Junior School had fun solving a range of fun and magical puzzles. A group of Exeter School A Level Lower Sixth mathematicians worked with small groups of Year 6 pupils encouraging and supporting them with their maths! Pupils particularly enjoyed the mathmagician Mr Malone-Lee and the matchstick magic of Miss...
Exeter School pupils have taken part in a unique outreach project in which they are leading and participating in a scientific research project on chemicals in plastic food packaging.
The pupils are joined by teenagers from other Devon schools and are being mentored by experts at the University of Exeter, gaining first-hand experience of all aspects of scientific research, from project planning to public engagement.
Funded by the Wellcome Trust and supported by the NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility, the citizen science project will see the Year 12s design a study to...
