Mount Kelly Foundation凯丽山小学

About the school
1Mount Kelly, originally founded in 1877, is a co-educational day and boarding school for pupils aged from three to eighteen occupying two sites; one on each side of the River Tavy in Tavistock. The prep school, which includes a pre-prep and Nursery setting, transfers pupils to the college at the age of thirteen. Approximately two-thirds of the college and just under one-fifth of the prep school pupils board. Those in the prep school live in a mixed house and there are four houses in the college for junior and senior girls and boys respectively. The school is a charitable company limited by guarantee and the governors act as its trustees.

What the school seeks to do
The school encourages its pupils to believe in themselves, and to be inquisitive, resilient and emotionally inelligent. They are expected to work with and learn from each other whilst also showing moral courage to stand up for what they believe. These qualities give them the confidence, social awareness and enthusiasm for the life-long learning so necessary to succeed in a rapidly changing world.

About the pupils
There are currently 593 pupils in the school. Day pupils come from within a 25-mile radius of the school and are mainly from professional families. Boarding pupils come from all over the United Kingdom and a wide variety of other countries overseas. Nationally standardised data provided by the school indicate that the ability of pupils in the junior and senior schools is above average and that of pupils in the sixth form is broadly average. The school has identified 56 pupils in the senior school and 29 in the prep school as having special educational needs and/ or disabilities, mainly dyslexia and dyspraxia of whom 47 receive specialist support in small groups or individually. There are currently 3 pupils who have an educational and health care plan. English is an additional language for 88 pupils across the whole school, all of whom receive additional specialist help. The school identifies the most able pupils and supports their learning in a variety of age appropriate ways including scholarship classes in the prep school and societies and lectures at the college. The college runs an elite swimming programme for its talented swimmers.