Yehudi Menuhin School, Cobham | The Good Schools Guide

Yehudi Menuhin School
Stoke d'Abernon
Cobham
Surrey
KT11 3QQ
Head: Richard Tanner
T 01932 864739
F 01932 864633
E [email protected]
W www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk
An independent school for boys and girls aged from 8 to 19.
Boarding: Yes
Local authority: Surrey
Pupils: 84; sixth formers: 27
Religion: Non-denominational
Fees: Day £43,068; Boarding £44,208 pa for those not on music and dance scheme
Open days: Termly on a Friday or Saturday 1.30pm – 4.30pm. Contact the Headmaster’s PA.
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What The Good Schools Guide says..

Yehudi Menuhin believed in the importance of a homely, family atmosphere in his school, and we saw children playing contentedly in the school’s leafy grounds, cheering on their friends in the lunchtime concert, and generally appearing happy and at ease. Students attested to the kindness of the staff. ‘The school’s been really patient with me,’ said one, philosophically. ‘When I first came, I wasn’t a well-behaved child. Anywhere else would have asked me to leave...

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What the school says...

Specialist Music School plus GCSE and A level subjects. Entry is strictly through instrumental audition.

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Music and dance scheme - government funding and grants available to help with fees at selected independent music and dance schools.

All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.

What The Good Schools Guide says

Head

Since June 2019, interim head is Richard Tanner, formerly director of studies from 2007 to 2018. MA in maths and a PGCE, both from Oxford, and he previously taught at Lancing College where he was head of maths and a housemaster. He sits on the Academy Advisory Board of the Emmanuel School, Nottingham.

To be replaced by Ben Gudgeon from summer term 2020. Currently senior deputy head, pastoral, at Sherbourne Girls’. His wife, Melissa Tillyer, will continue teaching RS there until Sept 2020, when she will join her husband.

Academic matters

‘It’s not the best, but it’s OK,’ was how one student described the academic provision. Results are certainly more than OK. In 2019, 54 per cent A*-A/9-7s at GCSE. A levels were 62 per cent at A*/A, 90 per cent A*-B in...

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