Merchant Taylors' School has always aimed to provide a balanced education. It was re-built on a magnificent 250-acre site in North-West London in 1933, with fine modern extensions of matching quality and attractively set in rural surroundings. The community provides a friendly, well-disciplined atmosphere in which academic excellence is achieved without undue pressure.
The school week allows ample time for the pursuit of both work and a wide range of games and extra-curricular activities, particularly art, music and drama. There is a tutorial system, which keeps a regular check on academic progress and fosters the partnership between home and school, while encouraging every boy to feel that he is treated as an individual. A particular strength of the school is the close co-operation achieved with parents, who are warmly invited to play a significant role in their son's education.
The boarding house, the Manor of the Rose, generates an enthusiasm and warmth that permeates the whole school.
The School enjoys excellent facilities lakes, ten cricket squares, golf nearby, a heated indoor pool, sports hall, fives, tennis and squash courts, a rifle range, athletics track and an astroturf. A superb new Library and Information Centre and a brand new Computer Centre have been added to the Modern Languages Centre completed in 1993.
Academic standards are very high, with A level grades at A and B averaging 75%, and there is a constant stream of pupils towards good university courses, but we are a school, not an academic treadmill. It is a distinctive feature of the education we offer that boys are able to take advantage of superb facilities to discover wider interests which stretch them, both intellectually and physically, and give them opportunities to excel at various levels. Conditioned to be positive and successful, we hope that they leave school as confident, outgoing and well-balanced young men, keen to make their mark in the world, and able to enjoy the challenges that life offers.
