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Admissions

Use the menu on the left to navigate the full menu of Admissions information and for copies of our Registration Form and our Terms & Conditions

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Why MTS?
11+ Entry
13+ Entry
16+ Entry
Visiting us?
Coach routes
Fees

To plan your route to MTS click here

Why MTS?

What makes Merchant Taylors’ different and special? If you talk to our pupils, parents or teachers, you will get something of a feel for this – particularly the emphasis on individual care and the importance we place on participating to the full in school life.  We not only provide a first class formal education, as our exam results and 'league table' placings show year after year, but we are a happy school - not an 'exam factory' and it remains what a school should be - a place where boys can spend the happiest days of their lives. MTS - because boys are happiest when they're stretched!

Whenever you enter the school, you will need to show an aptitude for learning and how good you are will be tested in an exam.

However, at MTS we believe that a good education is an all-round education.

We have fantastic facilities and offer you fantastic opportunities, so you need to be the sort of boy who wants to make the most of these opportunities. The sort of boy who contributes as much as they can to school life and gets the most they can out of it.

11+ Entry

To enter the Third Form (Year 7) you must be 11 years old by September 1st in the year you want to enter.

After being registered by your parents, you will be invited to sit an entrance exam in January. There isn't a separate scholarship examination.

There are 3 papers:

• English
• Maths paper
• Verbal Reasoning

If you do well you will be asked to come in for an interview. If you get a place you will hear in the Spring, when we send out the offers.

13+ Entry

To enter the Fourth Form (Year 9) you must be 13 years old by September 1st in the year you want to enter. Your parents need to register you at least one year in advance.

You will come for an interview in the autumn term before the year you want to come to the school. So if you want to come in 2011, you will come for interview in the autumn of 2010.

You will sit an entrance exam in the January of the year you want to enter.

MTS sets its own examinations in all Common Entrance subjects and the scholarship examination is at the same time. Some scholarship candidates will be invited back for further interviews.

16+ Entry

MTS takes a small number of boys into the Sixth Form.

If you want to join the School you need to be registered by 1st January of the year of entry. The entry procedure takes place in the Spring Term.

Candidates will be asked to sit short tests of their ability in the subjects they wish to study, followed by interviews, and offers may subsequently be made.

Transfer at 16+ demands that you are academic, adaptable and eager to seize the opportunities the School provides, in and out of the classroom.

For full details of admissions procedures please contact the Admissions Secretary.

Visiting us?

You can download an artist's impression of the school here. To save it, right-click and choose "save as".
To plan your route to MTS click here.

Coach routes

You can check out the coach routes to and from school by clicking here. The exact stops and routes for MTS coaches vary from year to year depending on demand.

Fees

Fees at MTS are paid in 3 instalments: 40% is charged in the Autumn Term; 30% in the Spring Term; and 30% in the Summer Term. There is an arrangement for the monthly payment of fees, details of which are obtainable from the Accounts Department.

The Academic Fee

From September 2010, the tuition fee is £15,250. This includes textbooks and £510 for school lunches. At MTS, lunch is a moment for us to enjoy as a community. All boys take lunch and on most days, you will find the Head Master or tutors or guests lunching with groups of boys. For more information on school lunches, click here. (If your boy is in the CCF the annual charge is £80, added to the Autumn Term fees bill).

Music Tuition

From September 2010, tuition is £30.75 per hour: an annual charge of £615 (assuming 30 lessons of 40 minutes each).

 Instrumental fees and tuition
 Music Application Form