Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall

Details

  • Type of school: Co-Ed | Preparatory school
  • Nearest international airport: Manchester (60km)
  • Age Range: 3-13
  • Number of pupils: 240
  • Number of boarders: 73
  • £ Fees per term - Boarding: from £10,345
  • £ Fees per term -Day: £3,515 - £7,030

School Information

The UK’s leading Catholic co-educational boarding and day school
providing young people with a springboard to a life of purpose. Stonyhurst
St Mary’s Hall is proud to be awarded ‘Excellent in all areas’ by the ISI.
Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall is a Catholic co-educational boarding and day school
for children aged 3-13. The Prep School is housed in its own buildings, on the
same 1,000-acre campus as Stonyhurst College. Stonyhurst was founded in
1593 and is the oldest continuously active Jesuit school in the world.
The children receive a high-quality, rounded education in a caring family
atmosphere. Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall has excellent teaching and recreational
facilities in a unique setting. The school has a national reputation for sport
and offers a broad range of co-curricular activities. Stand out factors include a
tennis dome to support all-year-round training, a high performing drama and
music department, historical museum and archives, professional theatres, an
indoor swimming pool, sports centre and a nine-hole golf course.

Academic and admission
All children receive close individual attention and personalised academic
tutoring through their class teachers and Playroom (year group) staff, who
meet regularly to monitor pupils’ work and progress. Early Years and Key Stage
1 pupils are taught in Hodder House, the purpose-built Pre-Prep School.
Admission of pupils from aged 3-13 is by previous school report (where
applicable), interview and standardised cognitive assessment and attendance
of a trial day. There are also entrance assessments for entry into Years 5, 6
and 7. Academic, drama, music, and sports scholarships are awarded at 11+.
Almost all children proceed to Stonyhurst College at the age of 13. To find
out more about Stonyhurst College, see page 166.

Activities beyond the classroom
Life at Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall is rich and varied. Weekly sports fixtures
encourage boys and girls to develop their sporting skills and team spirit.
Performing arts is one of the jewels in the school’s crown – children of all ages
are immersed in curriculum drama lessons and ambitious stage productions
utilising the on-site professional standard theatre. The department also works
with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and children
may take LAMDA exams in Verse & Prose, Acting and Musical Theatre.

Boarding
Boarders are under the care of the Head of Boarding, supported by a
large resident pastoral team and other teaching staff. The boarders enjoy
a stimulating and wide-ranging programme of evening and weekend
activities. Stonyhurst provides a seven-days-a-week boarding environment
in which the day pupils are able to participate to a great extent if they
wish. There are no exeat weekends but parents can take their children out
with prior arrangement.

Spiritual life
The moral and spiritual development of our pupils is of central importance at
Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall. Daily prayers and assemblies, and a weekly Mass,
take place in either the school chapel or Centenaries Theatre. Pupils and
families from all denominations and faiths are embraced

News

Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall welcomes Holocaust refugee and survivor.

Pupils from Stonyhurst St Mary’s Hall listen in amazement as Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, one of the 669 children who escaped from Czechoslovakia aboard a Winton train, shared her childhood stories and life growing up in Britain. Upper Elements pupils were delighted to have a very special visitor, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, to talk to them on

St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst take a trip to Stratford

Following their impressive performances of three Shakespeare plays last term, pupils in Rudiments (year 8) were treated to a trip to Stratford. They visited Shakespeare’s birthplace, Nash’s House and New Place and Hall’s Croft, the Jacobean home of Shakespeare’s daughter Susanna, taking time to stop for an ice-cream outside the theatre. The children learned a

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