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Quaker day and boarding school for girls ages 3 –18, located in

, England. The school was founded in 1785 and the current principal is David Griffiths. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. The Mount offers full boarding, weekly and flexible boarding and in 2020 became the first girl's school in the North of England to become an All Steinway School. The school is also a member of the Girls' Schools Association and the

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. The Mount School has been acknowledged as one of the top independent girls' schools in the United Kingdom. In ''

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'' League Table, the school is ranked 2nd by A-level results in the York area. In the ''

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'', the school was ranked top of an A-level results table for Yorkshire in 2012.

History

The school under the name Trinity Lane (or York) Quaker Girls' School was founded in 1785 by Yorkshire Quaker, Esther Tuke, wife of

William Tuke William Tuke (24 March 1732 – 6 December 1822), an English tradesman, philanthropist and Quaker, earned fame for promoting more humane custody and care for people with mental disorders, using what he called gentler methods that came to be ...

. In 1831 Esther and William's grandson Samuel Tuke along with William Alexander, Thomas Backhouse and Joseph Rowntree moved the school to Castlegate House with Hannah Brady as superintendent (1831–42. She was followed by Elizabeth Brady (1842–47), Eliza Stringer (1847–1853), and Rachel Tregelles (1853–1862). Lydia Rous returned from helping in the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states ...

to become head. Rous retired in 1879. In 1856 it moved to its present premises, The Mount. From 1890 to 1902 the Headmistress was Lucy Harrison. From 1946 to 1966

Margery Willoughby Margery Gertrude Willoughby (13 December 1905 – 10 June 2001) was a British headteacher and Chair of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Biography Willoughby attended Manchester High School for Girls and then Girton College, Cambridge where ...

was the head teacher.

Traditions

The Mount School has many long-standing traditions throughout the school year, including a game event ''Games in the Dark'' at Bonfire Night, where Year 11 students arrange a treasure hunt challenge for the younger students to take part in. College girls present two events to the school, one at the end of each term, respectively, the ''College I Pantomime'' and the ''Leavers' Play'' at Leaver's Supper, at which the new head girls present the old head girls with flowers and College II present the school with a gift, typically, an award in memory of a teacher and a digital photo frame of student trips. The school holds an end of term meeting both at Christmas and in the summer. Between these meetings is Family Day. This event is typically held around mid-May and is the main fundraising event of the year. The school body selects two charities to support: one based in the U.K. and one overseas. The students and staff speak about potential charities and all students vote for which charities to support. Family Day is an opportunity for every year to run a stall to raise money, whilst music and drama group offer entertainment. Other activity groups run stalls to raise awareness for the work of organisations such as Amnesty International and

Eco-Schools Eco-Schools is an international programme of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) that aims to “empower students to be the change our sustainable world needs by engaging them in fun, action-orientated, and socially responsible lear ...

Eco Committee, which in 2011 won the

Green Flag Award The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy, ...

for the school. This represents the highest achievement for an eco-friendly school. The Foundation Meeting (or Speech Day) summarises the year and introduces the new head girl team. Awards and scholarships are presented to students from every year group, including Grade 8 Music and Drama awards. Each leaver in College II writes a few sentences about their time at The Mount and their future plans, these are read out as they receive a necklace of the Mount Rose as a leaving gift. Other traditions include such events as the ''Carols on the Stairs,'' which takes place at Christmas, and ''Tea Party with the Elderly''.

Curriculum

Academically the school maintains traditional values and has developed ‘pillars of excellence’ in several subject areas: sciences, maths, history, music, sports, art, drama and foreign languages.

Sports

The Mount has many sporting activities for every year group like orienteering and fencing, netball, hockey and swimming in the winter and rounders, tennis and athletics in the summer. College girls are able to choose from a wider variety of sports including lacrosse and using the fitness suite. The school has a team for hockey, netball, tennis, rounders, swimming athletics and cross country. These teams compete with other schools in the area.

Creative Arts

The Mount is an All Steinway School and holds annual concerts. Musical opportunities include Senior and Junior Orchestra, Senior and Junior Choir, a Wind group and Swing Band for woodwind and brass instruments. The Mount follows the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) syllabus and there is usually a school and College Play every year. Previous years have performed ''Alice'', ''The History Boys'' and ''Accrington Pals''. The Drama department present ''I See A Voice'' every year.

Peace Studies

In 2012, the school became the first in England to introduce the PeaceJam Foundation's Ambassadors programme into the school curriculum, as opposed to as an after school club or extra curricular activity.

Notable alumnae

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, Scottish radio and television personality of the 1950s and 1960s *

Virginia Beardshaw Virginia Beardshaw, Lady Cahn CBE (born June 1952) is the Chair of the Annual Fund at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was Chief Executive of the children's communication charity I CAN for 10 years, spanning from 2005 t ...

CBE, Founder Fellow of the King's Fund Institute * Dame

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

, astrophysicist * Kate Bellingham BBC technology presenter and engineer *

Laura Busson Laura Margaret Busson (née Sayers; 11 October 1978) is BBC Radio 2's Commissioning Executive and deputy to the Head of Station, Helen Thomas. She was well known for her former role as sidekick and Assistant Producer for Scott Mills on BBC Radio ...

, BBC Radio 2 Commissioning Executive * Dame A. S. Byatt, author * Ruth Cadbury, politician * Margaret Crosfield, palaeontologist, one of the first 13 female fellows of the

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in 1919. * Dame

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, actress * Dame Margaret Drabble, author * Audrey Evans, paediatric oncologist, co-founder of Ronald MacDonald House * Professor Ruth Finnegan, social anthropologist * Mary Sturge Gretton historian and magistrate *

Jean Henderson Jean Mary Henderson (18 December 1899 – 1 April 1997) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Date of birth According to The Times newspaper obituary of Jean Henderson, she was born on 18 December 1899, but the records of the ...

, lawyer and

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politician * Rachel Howard, contemporary artist *

Noni Jabavu Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu (20 August 1919 – 19 June 2008) was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black South African woman to publish books of autobiogr ...

, South African writer and journalist * Dame

Elaine Kellett-Bowman Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman, DBE (née Kay; 8 July 1923 – 4 March 2014) was a British Conservative Party politician, serving as Member of Parliament ( MP) for the constituency of Lancaster for 27 years from 1970 to 1997. Life and care ...

, former Conservative MP * Rose Neill, BBC Broadcaster * Nuzo Onoh, British-Nigerian writer * Helen Osborne, journalist and critic * Winifred Sargent, English mathematician *

Anna Southall Anna Catherine Southall (born 9 June 1948) served as Director of the National Museum Wales from 1998 to 2002. She was educated at The Mount School, York and the University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public rese ...

, Director of the

National Museum Wales National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

Nicola Spence Nicola Jane Spence (born 22 February 1961) is the Chief Plant Health Officer and Deputy Director for plant and bee health at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Early life and education Spence was educated at The Mount ...

, Biologist *

Cheryl Taylor Cheryl Francis Taylor (born March 1964) is the Controller of CBBC (TV channel), CBBC in City of Salford, Salford. Early life She was brought up in Liverpool in a family of Quakers. She went to the independent boarding school The Mount School, Yor ...

, controller of CBBC *

Kathleen Mary Tillotson Kathleen Mary Tillotson CBE (3 April 1906 – 3 June 2001) was a British academic and literary critic, professor of English and distinguished Victorian scholar. Her various works on Elizabethan literature have accumulated significance in the lit ...

, literary scholar * Mary Ure, actress * Elfrida Vipont, children's author *

Hilary Wainwright Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British sociologist, political activist and socialist feminist, best known for being a co-editor of '' Red Pepper'' magazine. Early life and education Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwr ...

, feminist and ''Guardian'' writer * Anna Walker, BBC

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and Sky presenter * Frances Wilson (writer), English author, academic and critic * Elizabeth Young, journalist and literary critic

References

External links

The Mount School Official Site

The Mount Junior School Official Site

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