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For over 150 years, Stewart’s Melville College, in Edinburgh, Scotland has been educating boys. Voted The Sunday Times Independent Secondary School of the Year in 2013, here your son can enjoy all the strengths of a traditional boys’ school. The staff at Stewart's Melville College understand boys and the school environment is designed solely with the needs of teenage boys in mind. Our school offers the Scottish curriculum and first-class teaching and we strongly believe in our nine school values which lie at the heart of everything we do at Stewart's Melville College. The nine values - kindness, respect, commitment, enthusiasm, responsibility, grace, appreciation, confidence, and integrity - are recognized and followed by all members of the school community and, as a result, we are confident that our boys will grow up to be, in simple terms, good people who will make a positive difference to the world in which they will live and work. Your son will benefit from all of the advantages of single-sex education but, as part of the ESMS family of schools, the school is closely twinned with The Mary Erskine School for girls through a shared House system and co-education for many activities, including trips, shows, concerts, orchestras, bands, and societies. We also offer a co-educational Sixth Form which offers a genuine pre-University experience to further help prepare your son for University and life. For those boys who live further away from school, we offer a daily coach service across Edinburgh, the Lothians, and Fife and also offer Boarding facilities in a small boarding house for boys, with a capacity of 30, which provides a comfortable, close-knit and happy home from home for children from Primary 6 to Sixth Form. Find out more about Boarding for Boys. At Stewart’s Melville College we can offer your son extraordinary opportunities. Boys from the school have represented their country at sport, formed The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo choir, performed in professional West End touring shows, and go on incredible trips to diverse locations including Malawi, Vietnam, New Zealand, South Africa, and China. At Stewart's Melville College we are committed to single-sex education at senior school. Young children enjoy each other's company when they are playing and learning together in the classroom but as they move into secondary education and become teenagers boys and girls can inhibit each other. The boys of Stewart's Melville College are proud to be boys and they understand the importance of academic success. High academic and personal standards are assumed and boys are challenged at all times to set their expectations very high. 5 reasons to choose an all boys' education at Stewart's Melville College: We offer the boys academic challenges which reflect their natural way of learning. They respond with enthusiasm to inspirational leadership, they value competition and they perform at their best when they grow up in an environment in which only their best is good enough. Boys can be themselves, developing their interests and talents in subjects and areas which may not fit traditional gender stereotypes Boys learn differently from girls. The staff at Stewart's Melville College understand how boys learn and the school environment is designed solely with the needs of teenage boys in mind We instill strong values in our boys and our nine school values - respect, kindness, integrity, grace, responsibility, commitment, enthusiasm, appreciation, and confidence - underpin everything we do in school, thus allowing the boys to become compassionate and caring young men While the boys enjoy the academic advantages of single-sex education they also benefit from the social gains of mixing with the girls of The Mary Erskine School through the shared House system and combined activities including trips, concerts, bands, and orchestras, performing arts, and many others Throughout their time at Stewart's Melville College, the boys are afforded the time and space to develop into outstanding young men after which their co-educational Sixth Form year then prepares them for University and the wider world. View full school