Tormead School
As an independent day school, we deliver impressive academic results alongside outstanding pastoral care for confident and caring girls, aged 4-18, in the greater Guildford area – and their hardworking parents (just like you)…
Category: Pre-Preparatory, Preparatory, Senior, Sixth Form
Pupils: Girls
Type: Day
Religious Affiliation: Non-Denominational
Roll: 0 Boys / 788 Girls
Age Range: 4-18 Years
Founded: 1905
Location Description
Tormead School occupies pleasant leafy grounds and is conveniently located on the outskirts of Guildford, within five minutes walk of London Road Railway Station and the town centre.
School Contact Details
Headteacher: Mr David Boyd
27 Cranley Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 2JD
Tel: 01483 575101
Email: admissions@tormeadschool.org.uk
Facilities
Space to Learn
From the homely warmth of the Prep School to Olympic standard sports facilities and Science laboratories of Senior School. High-tec IT suites, the Library hub and the buzz of the Sixth Form Common Room, Tormead has a wealth of dedicated spaces to inspire a love of learning.
Prep School
The warmth and familiarity of our beautiful converted house make the first steps into school life easy ones. Our nurturing spaces include:
- Teletubby Land – All weather Reception play area
- Gym trail – outdoor space available to Years 3-6 feating an outdoor amphitheatre
- Sport – Open court, all weather spaces for a plethora of sports
- Science Laboratory
- Music Room
- Library
- Food and Nutrition classroom
Senior School
Our Senior School boasts inspiring and energetic spaces including the Performing Arts Centre, an Olympic-standard sprung gymnasium but also quiet gardens for a bit of time out.
- New Sports Home ground – Urnfield: Features 1st class facilities
- Sports hall
- Olympic-standard sprung floor gymnasium
- Fitness Suite
- Library with dedicated spaces for study
- Performing arts centre with Auditorium with tiered seating, dressing room facilities, a separate dressing room and plenty of rehearsal spaces
- Atrium
- Design Studio
Sixth Form
Sixth Form is a time of unparalleled growth, fun and hard work! Our aim is to foster intellectual curiosity and engagement with academic work, whilst educating girls for life beyond Sixth Form while simultaneously providing the older girls with a bit more independence and freedom to manage their own time. Students benefit from exclusive facilities, including their own Common Room and Cafe where girls can study independently away from the rest of the school.
- Sixth Form Centre
- Sixth From Cafe
- Quiet Study Zone
- Dedicated Teaching Spaces
- Collaborative work Spaces
- Acoustic Seating Pods
- Lecture Theatre
Scholarships
Available scholarships include Academic, Art, Drama, Music and Sport, and are worth up to 10% of the current tuition fees. The number of scholarships awarded each year is at the discretion of the Head. All scholarships, which can be held for the whole of a girl’s time at Tormead, are reviewed annually. We look forward to award-holders remaining at Tormead until they have completed their A Level examinations, thus making a significant contribution to school life.
Fees
From January 2025 (incl. VAT)
Reception – Year 6: £4,434 – £6,990 per term
Years 7-13: £8,010 per term
Affiliations/Memberships
GSA, IAPS, HMC, D of E, Apple Distinguished School, History Association (HA): Quality Mark for History: Gold Award
Downloadable Resources
OPEN DAYS
All visits are welcome, please contact the school
Senior School Open Morning: Wednesday 12 Mar 2025 - Time: 9:15 am
Prep School Open Morning: Friday 14 Mar 2025 - Time: 9:00 am
Senior School Open Morning: Thursday 24 Apr 2025 - Time: 9:15 am
Prep School Open Morning: Friday 9 May 2025 - Time: 9:00 am
Open Events: Please BOOK your place
Open Morning events will provide you and your daughter with an opportunity to meet and hear from the staff and teachers at Tormead, tour the school, and most importantly, hear from some of our girls about their experience at Tormead.
For further details please tel 01483 575101 or email: admissions@tormeadschool.org.uk
We are very proud of our school and its ethos of encouraging each individual pupil to develop her talents to the full in a happy, caring and supportive environment. Our academic expectations are high and we value our students’ impressive record of examination successes and university places. We are equally proud of their many other cultural and sporting achievements and their varied contributions to the life of the wider community.
Tormead values individuality, celebrates diversity and encourages girls to be themselves, whilst emphasising equally the value of tolerance, teamwork and collective responsibility. The academic pace offers stimulus and challenge, but is combined with an excellent range of extra-curricular activities enabling Tormead to offer a broad but balanced, progressive education.
Underpinning this is our wholeheartedly committed pastoral care of the pupils, allowing us to monitor carefully the progress and welfare of every girl. We work closely with parents to enable each girl to leave Tormead at ease with herself and ready to face with confidence the challenges of higher education and beyond.
We believe an important part of preparing our girls for the future is to ensure they are adept with the use of new technologies. To this end, we have embraced tablets into our curriculum with the deployment of a 1:1 iPad scheme for girls in Years 5 to 13. With the opening of our new premises in Autumn 2015, the girls benefit from innovative spaces to think, collaborate and reflect. This, coupled with an enhanced digital infrastructure, delivers an innovative, creative blend of modern technology with high standards of teaching.