Over recent years the College has continued to benefit from considerable investment producing some of the finest teaching facilities and boarding accommodation available. This has included boarding accommodation with en-suite facilities, sports centre, a refurbished Theatre, ICT centre, new Music school, floodlights on the all-weather surface and a new Resources Centre, including library with video and CD Rom resources and networked computers with internet access. Two phases of an ambitious Sports complex have also been completed, so that we now have a Grade 1 Athletics facility and a new pavilion, with plans for a third phase including a Sports Hall and Arts Centre.

The Sixth Form Centre is the focus of the Upper School. Pupils meet their tutors twice a day in the Centre to register and Sixth Form assemblies are also held there. The Centre provides leisure facilities, a kitchen area and the Head of Sixth Form's office. The Sixth Form Centre provides a meeting area for all pupils in Poetry (Yr12) and Rhetoric (Yr13).

The Librarian is ably assisted by a team of pupil Librarians who share              

responsibility for running this busy Library

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The centre has been built in the existing main school building and contains:
· 10 Station multi gym and additional free weights room.
· Aerobic room with running machines, cycles, steppers, rowing machines and cross trainers.

· Indoor Swimming Pool
· Sports studies classroom for the teaching of GCSE and A level.
· Gymnasium for Basketball, Badminton and Trampoline
· Fencing Salle

 All Weather Pitch

Full size Hockey pitch with dual use facility for Netball, Rounders, Tennis and many other sports.

The Theatre is a very impressive area with seating for 400 people, an orchestra pit and fully equipped lighting and sound desk. The school makes full use of this facility with numerous drama productions and musical events.

As a result of significant ICT investment we now boast two fully networked ICT suites equipped with modern PCs, flat screen monitors, optical mice, cameras, scanners and colour laser printing facilities. The two ICT suits are complemented by another full ICT/Audio suite in Modern Languages and other IT facilities for students throughout the school in departments as diverse as Science, Music, D&T and the Learning Resources Area. An eclectic range of constantly updated software is available across the school network to aid students in their research and studies. Plans are in progress for IT infrastructure developments that include additional PCs and servers, more online storage, higher speed Internet connections and enhanced communications facilities that will ensure we remain at the forefront of IT developments in the coming years.

The College has installed the Sanarco 300 Language Laboratory in the Modern Languages Department.

This powerful learning resource has revolutionised language learning at Mount St Mary's College.  It allows for more student-centred learning, easier differentiation and fascinating assignments using a variety of source material such as satellite TV, DVD, audio and websites.  The system comprises 22 state-of-the-art networked PCs and an interactive whiteboard.  The package includes a site licence which will allow all students to export the relevant software to their laptops or home computers allowing them to work on language lab material at home.