Exeter School equestrians are celebrating a second team entry into the National Schools Equestrian Association (NSEA) Finals at Hickstead plus an individual pupil qualified for the prestigious Arena Eventing Competition.
Megan Bailey, Alice Bailey, Olivia Eden and Izzy Kekwick competed in the 80/85cm class at Bicton on 11 February coming second out of 60 individual competitors. This qualifies them for the Finals in May.
Exeter Junior School pupil Eliza Heard was successful in the 70/75cm individual class and her second place also puts her into the National Finals.
Upper Sixth biologists from Exeter School took part in a DNA and Gene Technology workshop run by team of bioscientists from Exeter University.
Sixth Former Rebecca Charman explained how they carried out a restriction digest, using highly precise micropipettes to add restriction endonuclease to samples of real human DNA in order to split the DNA structure into tiny fragments.
"We then used gel electrophoresis - a technique we have recently studied as part of our A Level syllabus - to separate the fluorescently labelled fragments based on their size.
Exeter School's equestrian team has qualified for the National Team Show Jumping Championships at Bury Farm.
This success is hot on the heels after coming joint first in the National Schools Equestrian Association (NSEA) competition which qualified the team for the National Finals at Hickstead in May.
The 90cm team, consisting of Megan Bailey, Alice Bailey, Olivia Eden and Sophie Walker, won the class overall, beating over 50 competitors from a large number of South West Schools.
Team Manager Alison Bailey said this was a fantastic achievement and qualifies them for...
An Exeter School F1 in Schools team is in the hot-seat after winning three trophies in the Regional Final held at South Devon University Technical College, earning them a place in the National Final. This is the second year the co-educational independent school has qualified for the National Final which takes place in March.
The team called Vulcan won a place in the National Final after coming first in the Development Class as well as earning trophies for Fastest Development Class Car and Best Engineered Development Class Car.
Exeter School equestrian team has secured its place in the National Finals at Hickstead.
A team of four pupils from Exeter School came joint first in a National Schools Equestrian Association (NSEA) competition at Bicton Arena on Saturday 21 January, beating over 50 competitors.
The 90/95cm team, comprised of Olivia Eden, Celia Nowill, Emily Rix and Alice Bailey, now look forward to competing in the National Finals at Hickstead on the weekend of 28 May.
The NSEA competition at Bicton was open to all schools in Devon and Cornwall. The course was made up of show jumps...
Exeter School is pleased to complete this year's Oxbridge admissions process with the announcement that eight pupils have been offered places, two unconditionally.
In the last six years, 35 pupils have received Oxbridge offers. Exeter School has an excellent record of success in placing pupils in a range of leading universities.
At Cambridge, Jack Alderman has an offer to read Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) and Juliet Everson to read Natural Sciences at St Catherine's; Bertie Broomfield to read Modern and Medieval Languages (Spanish and Russian) at Fitzwilliam...
Exeter School pupils, parents and staff have succeeded in raising over £3,000 for charity over the first half-term of the academic year on top of collections of food and household essentials.
Three Houses have held cake sales to raise funds for their chosen charities. Daw raised almost £150 for The Francis Crick Institute, Drake raised over £200 for Tearfund and Crossing collected over £300 for Cancer Research.
School Chaplain, Revd Tom Carson, held two Harvest Festivals in Chapel this month, one for the Junior School and one for the Senior School. Pupils from across the...
Giselle Ansley, part of the GB hockey squad who won gold in Rio 2016, paid Exeter School pupils a visit on Thursday 13 October. It was great for pupils to see how somebody from South Devon has gone on to represent GB at the Olympics and brought home a gold medal!
She attended school in South Devon with Mrs Clark and started playing hockey at Paignton Junior Hockey Club before moving to Plymouth Marjon and then continued to play during her studies at Loughborough University. She made her debut for England against South Africa in February 2013.
