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Nursery School Holiday Club
20th July ~ 2nd September
Boys and Girls ages 3-8
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Year 13 Celebration Day
As staff arrived at school they were confronted with a locked staff room, but with a little “persuasion” from our Head of Sixth Form, the doors were unbarred to reveal a marvellous party spread and banner from the girls to say ‘thank you’ for all their teachers’ hard work during the girls’ school career.
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Weekly
Newsletters
Last Friday saw the Pre-Prep and Nursery classes performing ‘The Litter Muncher’ to their friends and family. The play was set in Lazy Daisy Village where the villagers were taught the importance of tidying up after themselves, and not leaving it to other people.
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Annual Magazine
Marguerite 2008
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Prep School Swimming Gala
Monday morning dawned bright and sunny, which set the tone for our Year 11 girls as they spent the morning enjoying themselves before beginning their GCSE study leave.
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Daisy's Garden
The Pre-Prep children were blessed with a dry and sunny day for their trip to Daisy's garden on Wednesday. Everyone was very excited as they drove out to Thorverton in the school minibus.
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Prep School Concert
'Summer Sunshine'
The Prep School concert last Friday was another example of the wealth of music going on at St Margaret’s and once again it was enjoyed a full house. The range of instruments represented and the many different styles performed were also very impressive
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Ten Tors 2009
‘Anticipation and Adrenaline’ summed up the atmosphere, as the thousands of walkers from different schools rippled out across Dartmoor in the early hours of Saturday 9th May.
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Summer Sounds
Despite the distinctly ‘un-summery’ weather outside, Philharmonia set the positive atmosphere for the evening, with their lively renditions of two well-known but extremely contrasting pieces – the James Bond Theme and Tckaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
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CCF Lympstone
On Monday 11th May, our cadets enjoyed the climbing wall and circuit training at CTCRM, Lympstone. The Physical Training Instructors, Lordie and Al, definitely looked the part (with their bulging muscles!), and made the sessions very light hearted and fun.
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Year 11 Study Leave Day
Monday morning dawned bright and sunny, which set the tone for our Year 11 girls as they spent the morning enjoying themselves before beginning their GCSE study leave.
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Easter Presentation
On Friday afternoon, the Nursery, Pre-Prep and Prep School joined together to present Music and Drama performances in an ‘Easter Presentation’.
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French Culinary Trip
Visit a restaurant in Condette for cookery demonstration, including A goats cheese starter and a hot chocolate dessert. Also visit a cheese factory and a Chocolaterie Sample the culinary delights! and purchase masses of chocolate for pressies.
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’Sixth Form Internet Café
‘Our Internet café will be opening to our Upper Sixth just after February half-term.
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New Arthouse
The Arthouse is nearly ready, as everyone can see. Smart in its new, elegant grey paint.
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French Exchange
Sunshine, crêpes, seasickness, menthe à l’eau and hilarious dancing: the French Exchange in five(ish) words.
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Newnham College
Mrs Searle took us to Newnham College in Cambridge for a Year 10 Open Day. We travelled up on the Friday. The grounds were beautiful and the architecture was stunning.
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Madge the Mini
The ‘Mini’ (now to be known as ‘Madge’) was created by Katya Moore as part of her A Level Art and Design coursework, at St Margaret’s School, Exeter, in the summer of 2008.
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A Taste of Spring
St Margaret’s joined with St Peter’s C of E Aided School, to perform a fund-raising concert for Heavitree Parish Church.
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Rutherford Laboratory
On Friday 27th February 2009, Year 11 and the Sixth Form Mathematics and Physics students were privileged to visit the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. We were pleased to arrive to biscuits and refreshments before moving on to the more academic side of the visit.
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Ski Trip
Full of high spirits, 27 pupils and 3 staff left St Margaret’s on their 21 hour journey to the mountains in Switzerland for the long-awaited 2009 Ski Trip.
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Pancake Day
The Express and Echo photographers came into the school to take pictures of them for Page 3. They also took a video whilst they were here,
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World Maths Day
A fun day was enjoyed by students participating in the Mathletics World Mathematics Day at St Margaret’s School on Wednesday 4th March 2009. Students in Years 7, 8, 9 and 10 were able to demonstrate their enthusiasm for Mathematics.
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Active Kids Get Cooking
Year 5 has successfully completed the Bronze Challenge for the food award scheme. Seven pupils achieved a pass and two pupils gained a merit certificate.
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Soloists' Concert
On Tuesday, our termly soloists’ concert took place in the PAC. Once again, we had a very wide range of instrumentalists and singers, performing in many different musical styles. For many of the performers, it was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for their forthcoming Associated Board or Trinity exams,
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Rowing Success
On Saturday the 7th March Chloe Payne and Emma Rutledge went to the Inter Regional Rowing Trials at Totnes Rowing Club representing Exeter Rowing Club.
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Kilve Court
On the 20th February we went to Kilve Court to take part in a science astronomy course called ‘Aliens and Asteroids’.
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World Book Day
World Book day fever swept St Margaret’s not just on Thursday, but for the whole week as departments and form groups competed to see who could take a picture of themselves reading in the most unusual place.
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Pre-Prep Visit Exeter Airport
When we arrived at the airport we looked at the check-in desks. We watched people checking in their suitcases. The cases disappeared and went to the aeroplanes. We looked at the arrivals and departures boards and saw all the places the planes flew to.
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Bygones Museum Visit
On Thursday, 27th February, Years 5 and 6 went to Bygones, Torquay. First we walked through a life size Victorian street and you could smell the different shops as well as being able to see them
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Science Week
This Friday marks the end of this year’s Science Week, and I’m pleased to announce that it has been a rip-roaring success.
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Pennywell Farm
Just before Christmas the Nursery and Pre-Prep department went on a trip to Pennywell Farm to see a live nativity play
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Mathletics
Our Year 7 was the top class in the UK and 5th in the world at Mathematics by the end of the first week of term!
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Youth Speaks
On Monday 2nd February at 6pm at the Area Final, both teams acquitted themselves admirably.
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Roman Day
Today it was a fabulous day! There were two men coming to school. One was a Roman and the other was a Briton. They were telling us what happened in the times of the Romans and Britons.
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Rotary Young Musician
At Margaret’s were delighted to host the first two rounds of this year’s ‘Rotary Young Musician of the Year’ competition. We had two girls performing in the Brass Sections – Rachel Frost on the French horn in the Junior Section and Estelle Caine on the trumpet in the Senior Section
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Youth Parliament
Thank you to all of you who voted for me this year in the Devon Youth Parliament election held in school a few weeks ago. I was very fortunate to be elected to the position of Deputy Member for the Exeter area. More... |
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Emily Haigh
Played the part of Katie in Casualty on BBC 1 on the 3rd January. More... |
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Junior Nativity
The Christmas Nativity play was very special this year as it was the first production to involve boys and girls from the age of three to eleven!
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Just Trombones
Mrs Lowles arranged for these gentlemen to come to St Margaret’s and talk about Trombones. Nina Savicevic and I came up to help.....
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Junior Master Chef
Maya Greenaway was second and Suzy Adams won the Exeter area final of Junior Master Chef, sponsored by Rotary and Springboard.
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“We Will Rock You”
rocks the school!
St Margaret’s was alive and reverberating with the sound of rock last week as our 70 strong cast of talented actors and musicians performed to capacity audiences for the three night run of this outstanding musical production.
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Duke of Edinburgh's
Gold Award
Hannah Bolt, Frances Buckler, Sarah Chandler, Ceri Knox, Eleanor McClune, Emma Sobczak and Tess Whiting received their Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards from the Duke of Edinburgh himself last Wednesday.
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Geography in the
Prep School
In our Geography lesson on Thursday 4th December we turned re-cycled paper into colourful glittery paper.
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Number Day
Number Day Mathematics extravaganza in aid of the NSPCC was held at St Margaret’s School on 4th December.
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Eurotop Conference.
During the first weekend on November Rhiannon Carter and Anna Hickman went to Belgium to take part in the Eurotop Conference.
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Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors competition
Two groups, eight people and five hours to change the world...the sweat was streaming down our faces. The whistle blew and we were off; pens and rulers flying about the room.
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CCF Exercise
Scraesdon Fort
On Friday 7th November, 22 of St Margaret’s Contingent paraded after school in anticipation for what, for many of them, was the first ever exercise that they had experienced.
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St Margaret’s Day
Recycling Spectacular!
The theme of this year’s St. Margaret’s Day afternoon event was ‘Recycling’. The aim was to hold a parade of recycled rubbish.
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Junior House
Christmas Cookery Club
Every Tuesday until the 9th of December we do Christmas cookery club. On the 11th of November we made dips.
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Middle School Choir
Singing Day at Sherborne
On Thursday, 13 November the Middle School Choir went to Sherborne School for Girls to take part in a singing workshop.
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St Margaret’s Top Ten Hat Trick
Three girls at St Margaret’s were among the highest scorers at GCSE this summer.
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New
Nursery
and Pre-Prep
These last two days have seen us welcoming the first of our new Nursery and Pre-Prep pupils.
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Kents Caverns
On the 9th October, Year 11 GCSE Geographers set out on an adventure to Kents Cavern and Torbay Geoparks.
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If you went down to the woods
If you went down to the woods on Friday you were sure of a big surprise, as the Nursery and Pre-Prep classes swapped their classrooms for the trees of Stoke Woods.
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Heinz means desserts!
On Tuesday 31st September, twelve GCSE and A level Food and Nutrition students visited Heinz at Okehampton to gain an insight into the complexities of food production.
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Warm Welcome!
St Margaret’s Science department gave a “warm welcome” to their new Physics teacher, Mr Moore
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Don Giovanni
As we entered the Royal Opera House we were astonished at how beautiful it was. Everything was perfectly carved and embroided in the Royal Colours, Gold and Red, the detail was just incredible.
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Ted Wragg prize for Outstanding Trainee
She has just finished a most distinguished year of teacher training at the University, winning the Ted Wragg prize for the Outstanding Trainee. This is a most impressive feat which few teachers achieve!
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CCF Camp Penhale
On Saturday 12th July 18 cadets from St Margaret’s CCF departed for Penhale in Cornwall where the Regular Army accommodate us, amongst 400 other cadets from around the South West.
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Exam Results 2008
St Margaret’s girls celebrated fabulous GCSE and A Level results this year.
At GCSE Ten girls swept the board, passing all their exams with A* or A grades: 59% of all St Margaret’s GCSE grades were an A* or an A and 88% gained A* -B grades.
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At A Level Eight girls swept the board, with A grades for every subject and a stunning 73.8% of all girls gained either A or B grades.
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Surf
Trip
Eleven Pupils from Year 9 signed up
to experience the thrills and spills of a weekends surfing at Woolacombe
.On loading the very full minibus on the Thursday evening it was
soon apparent that the girls had taken heed of the poor weather forecast
and packed nearly all of their belongings in some cases!
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Overnight
Exercise on Woodbury Common
The cadets were transported out to Woodbury
Common on Wednesday 2nd July 2008 with excitement and some anxiety
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German
Embassy
Mrs Grundberg was delighted to be invited by Dr. Eckhard
Lübkemeier,
the German Chargé d’Affaires, to visit the German
Ambassador’s Residence in Belgrave Square in London this week…
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Senior
Sports Day
Sports Day at St. Margarets School.
Athletes needed to stay cool.
Weather was hot, with sunny spells.
Creating athletes feet to swell!...
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Art
Exhibition
Year 12 and Year 13 pupils
working on AS and A Level courses at St Margaret’s School,
have maintained the tradition of excellence set over the years
by our students. Ambitious pieces in a wide range of media showcase
the individuality and imagination of the girls…
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Geography
Field Trip Year 10
As part of their GCSE work in Geography, and as preparation for their
coursework, Year 10 Geographers went to Dartmoor to investigate
tourist pressure on 'honeypot' sites; Haytor and Widecombe.
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Design
Technology Week
The week for the Key Stage 3 examinations was probably
one of the hottest for the year, so the Home Economics department
decided to help pupils chill out during Design Technology week…
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Exeter
and District Athletics
A full squad of Years 7-10 competed in the Athletics competition.
The weather was perfect, warm and dry. With 15 other schools attending
it is the largest competition of the Athletics calendar…
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Family
Wimbledon at Open Day
It rained – it must be Wimbledon!
8 family doubles teams took part in our first Family Wimbledon – mostly
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Sixth
Form visit to Riverford
‘A2’ Home Economics students spent a thought-provoking
morning at Riverford farm, Totnes on Thursday. Guy Watson, who converted
their family farm to organic production over 20 years ago, gave us
an insight into the food industry…
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Ten
Tors 2008
The atmosphere was electric, as any sweep or parent will tell you,
at the start of this fantastic event. Over two thousand four
hundred teenagers from four hundred schools met from all over the
southwest and had one thing in common – their desire to conquer
the 35, 45 and 55 mile…
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Auschwitz
Visit
Danni and Alice were given the chance to participate on a one day
visit to Auschwitz in Poland with the Holocaust Educational Trust
with around 200 other sixth formers from schools around the southwest.
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Commissioning
Service
Monday 28th April was a significant day for us as a school.
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Welcome
to the New Headmistress
Sheila Cooper, previously Deputy Head of St. Edward’s in Cheltenham
said. ‘St. Margaret’s brings out the very best in its
girls.’
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