Kings Monkton School
Kings Monkton School
Org 1: ISA
6 West Grove, Cardiff, CF24 3XL
Telephone: 029 2048 2854
Key dates: Autumn term: Thursday 4 September 2025 to Friday 12 December 2025
Half term: Monday 20 October 2025 to Friday 31 October 2025
Spring term: Tuesday 6 January 2026 to Thursday 26 March 2026
Half term: Monday 16 February 2026 to Friday 20 February 2026
Summer term: Monday 13 Apri 2026 to Friday 10 July 2026
Half term: Monday 25 May 2026 to Friday 29 May 2026
Age Range: Nursery, Pre-Prep/Infants, Prep/Junior to 11, Senior to 18
Day or Boarding: Day, Day Only
Gender: Co-ed
Exams offered: A Level, Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), GCSE
Scholarships Tick: Academic, Sport
Bursaries and discounts: New entrant bursary, Existing pupil bursary/hardship award, Sibling discount
Principal: Mr Paul Norton
Vice Principal and Head of Primary: Mrs Karen Norton
Age range. 3–18.
Number in school. 270.
Fees per term (2025-2026). £4,148.53–£6,544.48 (VAT incl.).
Kings Monkton School is a co-educational day school in the heart of Cardiff for pupils aged 3 to 18. Family owned, by Paul and Karen Norton, the school takes a different approach to learning and teaching. They believe that with the right support and in the right environment, all children can succeed and achieve their life dreams. Their recipe is simple: inclusivity, achievement for all, and choice.
Kings Monkton School is inclusive and warmly welcomes pupils of all abilities; they do not have entrance exams, they embrace diversity and celebrate differences, and they work with their families to create bespoke learning pathways for every pupil. They also listen, and their exceptional wellbeing and pastoral teams provide support to enhance the learning experience – Kings Monkton School is a place for all.
The school motto is ‘Be the best you can be’, and they believe that achievement means achievement for all. It is not the starting point for pupils that is important, but their academic journey. Many achieve several grades higher than predicted and leave the school as well-rounded, resilient lifelong learners, which is accomplished by small classes, great teaching and inspirational staff. Kings Monkton School wants your child to aspire, believe and achieve and they will guide their path.
But choosing the right path can be difficult, so the school offers choice. Their personalised curriculum offers over 33 different options at GCSE and post-16, and an array of assessments from A levels, GCSEs, BTEC and diplomas, while their bespoke Baccalaureate encourages pupils to go beyond the classroom and develop their own interests and passions, to be explored through their extensive range of extracurricular activities. The school also believes that with the New Curriculum for Wales, the need remains for some pupils to master specific subject knowledge, so they continue to offer options in Science, Maths and English.