St Leonards Mayfield Open Mornings

St Leonards-Mayfield School is an independent Catholic boarding and day school for girls, located within the quiet East Sussex village of Mayfield. For more information, contact admissions@mayfieldgirls.org.

‘Mayfield girls achieve outstanding standards in public examinations’ – ISI Inspection Report

Each girl is encouraged to set herself academic goals and is then supported to find the confidence, determination and love of learning to achieve them. The result is some of the highest public examination grades in the country and university places at a wide range of leading institutions.

‘The ceramics department is probably the finest of any independent girls’ school in the country’ – Tatler’s Schools Guide 2010

Mayfield has a reputation as the country’s leading secondary school for ceramics, and has won several national awards. Creativity – not just in the expressive arts but in the humanities, sciences and social sciences – lies at the heart of the School’s educational philosophy.

‘The quality of boarding education is outstanding’ – ISI Inspection Report

The boarding houses are intended to provide a home from home, during the school day and beyond. Our girls enjoy a stimulating environment where the pleasures of home are interwoven with a work and activity schedule designed to encourage them to educate themselves in the fullest sense of the word.

‘The school is an exemplary model of the dynamic effects which can be achieved by an education based on faith and love’ – ISI Inspection Report

Our Catholic faith is at the heart of all we do: it offers a framework of moral and spiritual values for pupils to take forward and share. In the same way that in the classroom we expect girls to engage, challenge and learn, so too we encourage them to question, reflect and respond to their faith.

Open Mornings (09.45 – 12.30):
17th Sept 2010
9th November 2010
22nd March 2011
6th May 2011

On Open Mornings, the Headmistress speaks with parents about life at Mayfield; the Head Girl and two of the younger pupils impart a glimpse into their own experiences of the School; and students lead guided tours of the buildings and grounds. Lunch provides visitors with an opportunity to meet with parents whose daughters are already at Mayfield, and speak to senior staff and subject teachers about the academic, extra-curricular, pastoral and spiritual life of the school.