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...
Exeter School's Sixth Form Charity Committee has helped raise valuable funds for local charity, Hospiscare, as well as the Karen Hill Tribes Trust run by alumnus Will Harnden.
The team held the charitable event in the school playing fields, where teams battled each other playing bubble football alongside welly throwing, face painting and a multitude of fairground games. Thanks to Laser Camp who provided the bouncy castle and inflatable football arena for free.
Refreshments were provided in the form of a delicious BBQ, cake stall and fruit juices which were kindly provided...
Exeter School was delighted to welcome Dr Natalie Garrett to Exeter School on 28 September to give two talks on her work as a Biophotonics researcher at the University of Exeter.
The lecture was sponsored by the Institute of Physics and Dr Garrett presented her work to a group of around 90 Sixth Form scientists in the morning and all Middle Fifth pupils, as well as around 100 pupils from other local schools, in the afternoon.
Pupils provided lots of really positive feedback about the talk that built up slowly to show how Dr Garrett, after studying Physics at degree level,...
Guest of Honour, writer, explorer and television presenter, Monty Halls, enthralled Exeter School pupils, parents, teachers and governors with an exciting and eye-opening speech at Exeter School's annual Speech Day on the evening of 17 September.
Former Royal Marine and knowledgeable and intrepid traveller, the broadcaster and campaigning explorer has made himself an authority on the Giant Humboldt Squid, rare crocodiles, the life of crofters, lobster potters and underwater exploration.
Earlier in the day he spent time in the Junior School where he gave a talk about sharks...
Exeter School is pleased to welcome new chaplain Reverend Tom Carson, who was licensed officially in Chapel by The Bishop of Crediton, The Right Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally, on Saturday 19 September.
Reverend Tom, as he is called by pupils, is Exeter School’s first full-time chaplain. Previously Head of Religious Studies at Wallington High School for Girls, Revd Tom’s ministry complements the work of the pastoral teams and the School nurse and covers the Junior and Senior Schools.
As well as being a listening ear for the entire school, Revd Tom also teaches Religious...
