St Davids College

St David's College has a 50 year success story founded on a visionary approach to education. We are a mainstream independent boarding and day school educating children from 9 to 19 years of age. Through partnership with parents we discover the gifts of each child, remove the barriers to learning and lead young people to realise their full potential. Our highly regarded SEN provision, helping those with dyslexia and associated learning needs, works seamlessly in our mainstream environment.

We shall aim at sound scholarship, we shall pursue prowess at games, we shall encourage a love of the beautiful and of creative skills, but above all we are determined to lay such foundations of character as will send our pupils out to play an effective part in a world that stands in need of people of sterling Christian worth.

St David's College was founded in 1965 by John Mayor, the first Headmaster, together with Lewis Edwards and Canon Roy Barker. The vision was to establish a school for boys (we are now co-educational) which would tailor teaching to the specific learning style of each pupil. John Mayor had observed for some time that some pupils were struggling to find a place of appropriate learning in either mainstream independent and maintained schools.

Writing six months prior to the opening of St David's College, John Mayor expressed in a letter to prospective parents: "St David's will provide academic and practical instruction to meet the needs of the individual pupil; it will also provide an environment in which self-confidence will develop."

The Christian Foundation of St David’s College is distinctive. It has an emphasis on quality of relationships and sense of belonging, the development of virtues, the promotion of compassion and the setting of the academic in the context of meaningful beliefs and values. This allows each pupil the opportunity to discover his/her own uniqueness, value and significance as a human being - the FREEDOM to FLOURISH.

Our Aims: St David's College aims to develop 'the whole person', through a broad education founded on Christian principles, a wide choice of interest and activity, and an achievable personal programme for each pupil.