Stonyhurst College is a Roman Catholic boarding and day school for boys aged 13-18 and for girls in the Sixth Form. For the past 400 years it has set out to educate 'men and women for others' in a challenging yet compassionate environment which is sensitive to the needs of all pupils, whatever their ability and talents. Stonyhurst is able to offer the highest standard of teaching facilities across the complete curriculum range.
The school's pastoral care is based on 5 year groups; at all levels each pupil has a Tutor. Academic work is regularly monitored, and reported on to parents at fortnightly intervals. Over 95% of our Sixth Form leavers enter Higher Education. We try to treat our pupils as individuals, taught how to think, not simply what to know; at all times they are encouraged to put their gifts at the disposal of others within the school and in the wider community. Our academic programme is supported and reinforced by a comprehensive range of extra curricular activities available to all pupils.
The College's extensive estate provides a wide range of recreational and sporting activity: in addition to the traditional team games for which Stonyhurst has a national reputation, opportunities exist for the Duke of Edinburgh Award, orienteering, canoeing, golf, scuba diving, fishing, clay pigeon shooting, archery and many other activities. Our Sixth Form girls are encouraged to take a full part in the school's recreational programme whether as an individual or in some team activity.
The College's 'Learning to Care' Trust organises a programme of fund raising throughout the year, culminating in an annual holiday for deprived and disadvantaged children in which the helpers are staff and pupils. Each year a number of our leavers spend their 'Gap' year working with Jesuit communities throughout the world.
Stonyhurst has always had an international school roll, which enriches the lives of all who learn and teach here. It is hoped that Stonyhurst pupils will return to their own communities, wherever in the world that may be, as caring, competent and compassionate young people, ready to give generously of themselves in accordance with the Jesuit tradition in which they have been educated. In 1999 the College becomes fully co-educational.
Alumni - Bill Cash MP; Paul Johnson; Mark Thompson (BBC 2); Kyran Bracken; Sir H Bidwell; Bishop Hollis; Conan Doyle; Charles Laughton; Lord Chitnis; Lord Talbot; Hon R Arundell; Sir Cecil Clothier; Brendan O'Friel; Greg Wood; Bruce Kent; Peter Moorhouse (Chairman Police Complaints); Sir Edgar Unsworth.
