Mayville High School

Mayville High School is an independent co-educational day school in Southsea, Hampshire. We provide a bespoke education for all our pupils. We are an independent co-educational day school in the heart of Southsea with around 500+ students on roll. We currently admit students within the 2-16 age range. We are a split site: the school has four large teaching sites and our playing fields are at Cockleshell, Eastney, which is less than a 10 minute journey away. We are situated near Portsmouth’s rich historic heritage, a stone’s throw from the Solent and close to the city’s cultural wealth. Founded in 1897 there is a strong emphasis on traditional disciplines yet Mayville adopts innovative teaching methods to help promote learning. Our size is our strength, we are big enough to offer pupils a wide range of opportunities yet small enough to treat each pupil as an individual. Class sizes are small, enabling each pupil’s individual learning needs to be fully met. To ensure that we provide a bespoke education to each child within the senior school we split the forms into two so that the students are taught in sets of around 12. This is an unparalleled staff-student ratio in senior school education. The philosophy underlying Mayville’s curriculum is that it is the happy child who will learn and the one with self- respect who will best meet his or her potential. Our initial aim, therefore, is to create an atmosphere for learning which is enjoyable, exciting, challenging and inclusive, but where each pupil feels secure and respected for what they bring as an individual to the school community. The defining features of a Mayville education have always been: a pastoral care system outstanding enough to nurture the individual child into gaining knowledge of themselves and an appropriate academic bite, the constant striving towards academic excellence tempered perhaps by the belief that true success is that magical combination of both ability and temperament which is refined ov