Stewart's Melville College A GSG School
- Stewart's Melville College
Queensferry Road
Edinburgh
EH4 3EZ - Head: Mrs Frances McCrudden
- T 0131 311 1000
- F 01313 111099
- E [email protected]
- W www.esms.org.uk
- An independent school for boys aged from 12 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Edinburgh, City of
- Pupils: 787; sixth formers: 131 (co-ed sixth form with the Mary Erskine School)
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £16,041; Boarding £31,383 - £32,190 pa
- Open days: September
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Linked schools: ESMS Junior School, The Mary Erskine School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Stewart’s Melville don’t just do sport, they live it. There are 61 coaches producing strong performances in rugby (our tour guide was about to represent the school in the Scottish school finals), hockey, swimming, basketball, football, badminton, cricket, rowing… you name it. Even the head takes a table tennis session. ‘Our academic child is pushed, our non-academic child is given loads of support and help,’ one parent told us – always a good sign. We too saw all abilities thriving, with lively teaching throughout and good relationships with staff. A group of sparky S2’s responded with a dramatic groan to a math’s teacher’s self-proclaimed ‘bobbydazzler’ of a worksheet – but they soon got stuck in. Another class were...
What the school says...
Stewart’s Melville College is part of ESMS, a vibrant, friendly, family of schools, set in beautiful grounds in the heart of Edinburgh.
We are a diamond school with a co-educational Junior School. Boys move into Stewart’s Melville College for the early years of secondary school where teachers understand how to motivate and nurture boys so that they thrive. At Sixth Form the pupils then return to a co-educational learning environment to prepare them for life after school. This allows us to give our pupils the best of both worlds.
We offer our pupils a rounded education and an unrivalled opportunity to discover and develop their natural talents. We run an extensive outdoor education programme and offer over 90 extra-curricular activities.
At Stewart’s Melville College pupils leave school with lifelong friendships and the strength of character, social skills, imagination and self-belief they need to find success in whatever they turn their minds to. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2022, Frances McCrudden BA PGCE. Studied economics at Strathclyde, followed by a year volunteering in Thailand ‘way before it was a tourist destination’. After a brief spell working as an analyst, she realised her calling and completed a PGCE at Glasgow to teach business and economics. She rose quickly through the ranks at two schools in Surrey, returning to Scotland in 2006, where she married her childhood sweetheart and got the job as head of business studies, then head of careers (‘I’m a natural networker’) and, finally, director of sixth form at Mary Erskine before moving here.
The first female head of the all-male Stewart’s Melville, but regards this as a ‘non-issue’: ‘I don’t really think gender comes into it, the important thing is to take everybody with...
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Special Education Needs
We offer support for learning, both in class and in small extracted groups. In the first year some pupils are given the option to do one modern language instead of two, allowing support to be delivered instead. Further up the school, some pupils will continue to follow a reduced timetable depending on their needs.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| 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 | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| PD - Physical Disability | Y |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
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