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...
An Exeter School pupil has been selected to join the England Development Programme for Under 16 Cricket. Upper Fifth Exeter School pupil Ben Green, who has just returned from a stint as captain of the South and West U15 cricket team for the Bunbury Festival, was notified of the honour by David Graveney, a leading figure in English cricket and former chairman of the England Test selectors. Ben is one of just ten boys nationally to be selected for the England Development Programme. It will involve travelling to the University of Loughborough throughout the year for training camps as a well...
Sebastian Wright and James Krafft from Exeter School have been awarded a sought-after Arkwright Engineering Scholarship that identifies them as some of the country’s future leaders in engineering and related areas of design. Seven Exeter School pupils have been awarded Arkwright scholarships in the last four years. The renowned Arkwright Engineering Scholarships provide pupils with a £600 financial award to enhance their A Level studies and a range of activities to increase their understanding and experience of engineering. Exeter School will also receive £400 for each Scholarship awarded...
Exeter School has had a busy summer while the pupils and teachers were on holiday. A major programme of building and refurbishment has been completed, to bring the facilities right up to date just in time for the new school year which starts today (4 September). The Sixth Form have a completely refurbished and extended centre, complete with study and seminar rooms, a lunch facility and new furnishings. The Music School has been rebuilt and expanded by 50%, with a new hall and many new practice rooms. Two new classrooms have been built for the Science and Maths departments. The Dining Hall...
A GCSE German pupil from Exeter School has taken first prize in a prestigious Goethe Institut competition.
Middle Fifth (Year 10) pupil Katie Hayman was awarded first place in the News Reading category of the Digital Days Competition for which she had to film herself reading the news in German.
Katie beat almost 150 applicants to win a £50 prize and impressed the panel of judges who said it was very difficult for the selection panel to come to a decision.
The idea for Katie’s entry was judged to be extraordinarily unique and creative and the panel praised Katie’s...
46.9% of grades A* and 80.3% of grades A* or A Exeter School pupils, parents and staff are celebrating another round of consistently good GCSE results which have set two new records in excellence. 46.9% of all grades were A*, beating last year’s record of 46.5%, and 80.3% were A* or A grades, compared to last year’s 75.5%. 99.5% of grades were A* - C. There were many high achievers across the range of 19 subjects with almost two thirds – 63 pupils - achieving eight or more A* or A grades. Thirty-five pupils scored 10 A*/A grades. The highest individual achievers were Ashe de Sousa, Marcus...
