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Marlborough College A GSG School

Marlborough College
  • Marlborough College
    Marlborough
    Wiltshire
    SN8 1PA
  • Head: Louise Moelwyn-Hughes
  • T 01672 892300
  • F 01672 892307
  • E admissions@marlboroughcollege.org
  • W www.marlboroughcollege.org/
  • Marlborough College is an English independent day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire. It was founded in 1843 for the sons of Church of England clergy and now educates over 900 pupils.
  • Boarding: Yes
  • Local authority: Wiltshire
  • Pupils: 1,012; sixth formers: 445
  • Religion: Church of England
  • Fees: Boarding £50,985 pa (last updated on 21/08/2024)
  • Open days: September, October, April, May and June
  • Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
  • Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What says..

There’s so much on offer beyond the academic timetable that it’s hard to know where to start. ‘This is a very busy place,’ says the deputy head (co-curriculum and outreach). Superb facilities and inspirational specialist teaching mean that every pupil, no matter what their prowess, gets involved in sports and the arts. Wise advice from year 11 pupils – known as ‘the Hundred’ – is to ‘get stuck into as much as you can while you’re here...’

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What the school says...

Marlborough College is one of the finest co-educational full boarding schools in the country and draws pupils between the ages of 13-18 from across the UK and the world. Our school community numbers over 1,000 boys and girls and this scale enables us to provide an outstanding range of activities and support for every pupil throughout the busy seven day week. The standard of teaching and pastoral care at Marlborough is exceptional and the academic, sporting and artistic facilities are world-class.

Founded in 1843, the college is located in Wiltshire on the edge of a beautiful market town, within easy reach of Heathrow and an hour from London. Our campus blends stunning architecture with inspirational modern facilities and is set in 286 acres of historic down land and centred around a 4,000-year old Neolithic Mound, reputedly the burial place of Merlin.

At Marlborough, we are committed to broadening access and ensuring financial constraints do not prevent children who would thrive at the college from taking up a place. We are aiming for 100 pupils to be on fully funded places and a similar number on partially funded places by 2033 and already have over 110 pupils supported in this way and flourishing within our school community.
We offer places to children to join in year 9 and into the sixth form. We are a selective school and the selection process assesses academic ability and potential as well as personal qualities and talents. Overall, we are looking to assess the contribution a child promises to make to life at the college.

The college is academically ambitious, offering a progressive, challenging and enriching education through the curriculum and beyond. Pupils at the college achieve top grades at GCSE and A level and over 90 per cent secure a place at their first choice of university including Oxbridge, Ivy league, medical school and Russell Group. Our pupils are bright and they relish a challenge. It is the norm for pupils to combine achieving great grades with making the most of the incredible opportunities that a fully co-educational boarding school can offer.

Our co-curricular provision is second to none and all pupils become involved in a wide range of sporting and cultural activities. There is a vast array of concert and performance opportunities, three major school drama productions a year and we regularly field 50 sports teams each weekend. We value individual excellence and wide participation just as strongly.

The school is built on its values of ambition, community, initiative and service and these values are developed and recognised in all aspects of school life. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion means that whoever you are, you are valued and welcomed here.

Pupil leadership is very important to us and pupils lead in all aspects of college life: in pastoral matters as wellbeing ambassadors and as prefects; and academically in societies, in talks and by mentoring others. Pupils also lead and participate in many charitable and outreach initiatives. ...Read more

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Sports

Polo

Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.

Fencing

Shooting

What The Good Schools Guide says

Master

Since 2018, Louise Moelwyn-Hughes MA, previously head of St Edmund’s School in Canterbury. She grew up on a council estate in Northern Ireland and at 11 was awarded a place at Methodist College in Belfast, known to locals as Methody, one of Northern Ireland’s leading grammar schools. ‘My parents couldn’t afford the bus fare but my county stepped in and gave me a bus pass,’ she recalls. She began studying ancient Greek at 12 and loved reading and translating so much that in the sixth form her teacher stopped her in the corridor and said she should apply to Cambridge. ‘How do I do that?’ she asked. He wrote three colleges on a scrap of paper and she chose Magdalene College because she liked the name. Her father drove her to Cambridge for her...

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Special Education Needs

Children with mild special educational needs can enjoy successful careers at the college, and allowances are made when such children undertake the Assessment test. However, Marlborough is not an appropriate school for children with moderate to severe difficulties. There is a Learning Support Centre staffed by five full time SPLD trained members of staff, which at present caters for over 100 pupils with differing needs. A wide range of Learning difficulties are addressed from problems with spelling, reading and writing, to personal organisation and other study skills. The aim is to enable pupils to access the wider curriculum, as well as meeting their specific individual requirements. 10-09

Condition Provision for in school
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Might cover/be referred to as;
ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Aspergers, Autism, High functioning autism, Neurodivergent, Neurodiversity, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), PDA , Social skills, Sensory processing disorder
Y
HI - Hearing Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Hearing Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment
Y
MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Learning needs, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, Sensory processing
OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
Downs Syndrome, Epilepsy, Genetic , OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, Tics, Tourettes
PD - Physical Disability
Might cover/be referred to as;
PD - Physical Disability
PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, Global delay, Global developmental delay, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Might cover/be referred to as;
Anxiety , Complex needs, Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), Mental Health, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, Trauma
Y
SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
Might cover/be referred to as;
DLD - Developmental Language Disorder, Selective mutism, SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
Y
SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
Complex needs, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, Cerebral Palsy (CP)
SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
Might cover/be referred to as;
ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Auditory Processing, DCD, Developmental Co-ordination Difficulties (DCD), Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Handwriting, Other specific learning difficulty, SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Y
VI - Visual Impairment
Might cover/be referred to as;
Special facilities for Visually Impaired, VI - Visual Impairment

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