Mount Kelly School

Mount Kelly School
Type Independent school
Day and boarding school
Headmaster Mark Semmence
Chaplain Richard Bache
Chairman of the Governors Christopher Snow
Location Parkwood Road
Tavistock
Devon
PL19 0HZ
England
Coordinates: 50°33′22″N 4°08′07″W / 50.5561°N 4.1354°W / 50.5561; -4.1354
DfE number 878/6009
DfE URN 113573 Tables
Students 546 as of December 2015
Gender Mixed
Ages 3–18
Houses College: Marwood, Russell (girls), Courtenay (boys), Newton (boys), Conway (mixed)
Prep: Brunel, Chichester, Hepworth and Scott
Colours Navy, red and gold               
Website www.mountkelly.com

Mount Kelly is a fully co-educational independent day and boarding school for children between the ages of 3 and 18.[1] The current Head Master is Mark Semmence.

Mount Kelly was established in June 2014 following the merger of two neighbouring schools, Kelly College (founded in 1877) and Mount House School (founded in 1881).[2]

In 2016, the Mount Kelly Foundation announced the creation of a new international prep school in Hong Kong, Mount Kelly International School. The school is set to open in September 2017 and the Founding Head Master of Mount Kelly International School is Gary Wright.

Location

Mount Kelly is located in Tavistock, Devon, England, and is situated within the Tavy River valley on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park, between Exeter and Plymouth.[3] Positioned on the outskirts of the market town of Tavistock the school grounds consist of 140 acres of landscaped grounds, woodland, forest, green fields and a small holding.[4]

Co-curricular activities

Mount Kelly offers a co-curricular activity programme. College pupils can take part in the Combined Cadet Force, the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race or the Ten Tors Challenge.[5]

Academic staff, in collaboration with the onsite Adventure Centre, run the Learning Outside the Classroom Programme. Children in the Pre-Prep attend a weekly Forest School activity. The Shackleton programme is run for 9 to 13 year olds and designed to give them increasingly challenging outdoor experiences.[6]

Boarding

Boarding is available on a full, day, weekly or flexible basis. Pupils can board from Year 3 to Year 8 at the Prep School. At the College, four houses are allocated; boys in Year 9-11, girls in Year 9-11, a Sixth Form boys' house and a Sixth Form girls' house respectively.[7]

Swimming

The Head Coach is former Olympian Robin Brew. Pupils and alumni have won a total of 29 Olympic and Commonwealth medals over the last 37 years and been selected for the last five Olympic and Paralympic games. Sharron Davies and Andy Jameson are two of its most celebrated swimmers.[8]

In September 2016 Mount Kelly built new 50 metre, 8 lane Olympic Legacy Swimming Pool, financed in part by Sport England[9] and the National Lottery (United Kingdom).

Inspections

The school was last inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate in March 2015.[10]

Admissions

Entry requirements vary according to year group and are a combination of assessments, taster days and visits.[11]

Fees 2016/2017

Annual day fees: £6,900 to £16,710 (GBP)
Annual weekly boarding fees: £15,510 to £27,150 (GBP)
Annual full boarding fees: £17,250 to £29,100 (GBP)[12]

Notable alumni

Kelly College:[13]

Mount House School:

Mount Kelly International, Hong Kong

In July 2016, the Mount Kelly School announced that it would open a new school in September 2017 at Tuen Mun’s Gold Coast in Hong Kong. The application for the school's registration to the Education Bureau was withdrawn by the school in July 2016 after delays over land use classification of the proposed site.[14]

In November 2016, Secretary for Education Eddie Ng Hak-kim said that parents should be cautious about registering with the school and that it could not call itself an International School without a successful application. Kim also confirmed that after the initial application had been withdarwn in July 2016, the school had not submitted another one.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Head Masters Welcome". Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Westcountry's Prestigious Schools Merge". www.westernmorningnews.co.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "TavistockDevon". tavistockdevon.com. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "How to Find Us". Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Mount Kelly". hmc.org. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "LOTC". Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Mount Kelly". Boarding.org. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Why Mount Kelly?". Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "World class pool set to make waves in west of England". Sport England. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "6585". ISI.net.
  11. ↑ "Admissions". mountkelly.com. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "Fees". isc.co.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  13. ↑ http://www.mountkelly.com/History
  14. ↑ South China Morning Post (5 August 2016). "British school's opening date unlikely as it hits planning road block". South China Morning Post.
  15. ↑ "Warning delivered over British prep school". The Standard. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
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