Mount Kelly A GSG School
- Mount Kelly
Parkwood Road
Tavistock
Devon
PL19 0HZ - Head: Mr Guy Ayling
- T 01822 813193
- F 01822 612050
- E [email protected]
- W www.mountkelly.com
- A mainstream independent school for pupils aged from 13 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Read about the best schools in Devon
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Devon
- Pupils: 378; sixth formers: 162
- Religion: Church of England
- Fees: Day: £20,550 - £20,970 pa; Boarding: £36,780 - £36,960 pa
- Open days: Sixth Form Open Day: October; College Open Day: September
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Mount Kelly Prep
What The Good Schools Guide says..
‘They are really nice kids, very decent, grounded and generous-spirited,’ says the head. ‘I say to them: “You are going into a tough world but if you work hard and dig in and use one hand on the ladder to help other people up you will be fine.” They give me hope for the future. They are very well-mannered and polite but there’s a steeliness too. When there’s a job to be done, whether it’s thrashing across Dartmoor in the driving rain or swimming in a gala, they can do both...’
What the school says...
Mount Kelly, set on the edge of Dartmoor National Park between Exeter and Plymouth, combines academic excellence with an outstanding range of learning opportunities outside the classroom and exceptional pastoral care. The School, for girls and boys aged between 4 and 18, offers both day and a full range of boarding provision and currently has 575 pupils.
Children at Mount Kelly are nurtured, guided and inspired to develop their own skills and interests. Each pupil joins one of the Schools Houses, serving as a boarders home from home and a day pupils working base. Boarders comprise approximately 50% of the Colleges pupils and are fully integrated with the day pupil body. Pupils enjoy small class sizes offering exceptional levels of individual focus. Each pupil is cared for by a Housemaster or Housemistress and assigned a dedicated tutor who oversees their academic, pastoral and co-curricular progress. This comprehensive tutoring system produces happy pupils who are confident, well-rounded and ambitious.
Mount Kelly offers a high standard of academic schooling including a proven track record of 100% A-level pass rates, 70% awarded at A* B and 85% gaining places at their top choices of universities. Mount Kelly also has an excellent reputation for 100% Common Entrance success and top Scholarships to a range of leading national schools.
The School is well known for its strong commitment to co-curricular activities and the majority of pupils are involved with at least one of the following: the Combined Cadet Force, Duke of Edinburgh Awards, the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Marathon or the Ten Tors Challenge. The Saturday School Programme, optional for all day pupils, gives the children the opportunity to explore a wide range of interests with activities from kayaking to cookery. In addition the academic staff, in collaboration with well-resourced on-site Adventure Centre, runs the innovative Learning Outside the Classroom Programme utilising activities from coasteering to creative writing on location. Mount Kelly is well known for its world class coaching facility for swimming and an elite training programme which is fully integrated within the School. Mount Kelly has produced competitors at the last five Olympic and Paralympic games. ...Read more
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Sports
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Sailing
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster and Principal of Mount Kelly Foundation
Since 2019, Guy Ayling, previously head of Llandovery College in Carmarthenshire. Before that he spent 15 years at Sedbergh in Cumbria (becoming a housemaster and senior master). ‘I move between National Parks,’ he jokes.
Educated at Bilton Grange and Rugby, he read medieval history at St Andrews, captained the first XV and played for Scottish Universities. Both his parents were teachers and he was keen to follow suit. ‘I remember at prep school I saw my Latin teacher’s mark book beautifully laid out and I wanted to do that too,’ he says. ‘I was really inspired by my teachers at Rugby and I was keen to have the same kind of impact on pupils, to teach history and run around in shorts in the...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
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Condition | Provision for in school |
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ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
Aspergers | Y |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
Dyscalculia | Y |
Dysgraphia | Y |
Dyslexia | Y |
Dyspraxia | Y |
English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
Genetic | |
Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
Has SEN unit or class | |
HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
Hospital School | |
Mental health | Y |
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
PD - Physical Disability | Y |
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
VI - Visual Impairment |
Who came from where
School | Year | Places | Scholarships | Description |
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Mount Kelly Prep | 2023 | Majority to the senior school |
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