Scenes from the tour

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Marymount International School London is an independent Catholic day and boarding school for girls aged 11 to 18, set on a seven-acre garden campus on George Road in Kingston upon Thames. Its families are spread across the world, so for many of them the first look around the school happens on a screen rather than on an open day.

This is one of our bespoke 360 virtual tours: 31 scenes, an aerial view of the whole campus, and an interface designed and built for Marymount rather than taken from a template. Below we walk through each feature and explain why it is there.

Marymount virtual tour welcome screen on desktop and mobile — The welcome card on desktop and on a phone. Visitors can start the tour, jump to an area, make an enquiry or apply online.

A welcome that gives people a choice

The tour opens above the campus with a short welcome card in the school’s navy and lilac. Instead of dropping visitors into a scene and leaving them to work it out, it offers clear first steps: start the tour, explore the areas, make an enquiry, apply online, or read a short guide to using the tour. A parent who already knows what they want to see can go straight there.

An aerial view as the front door

The opening scene is a 360 aerial of the campus. Each building and outdoor space carries a labelled pin with an icon for its type, so the chapel, science labs, boarding houses and sports facilities can all be recognised at a glance. Selecting a pin takes you down to ground level in that space. It gives families a sense of how the campus fits together before they step inside, which is hard to achieve with photographs alone.

Aerial 360 view of the Marymount campus with labelled location pins — The aerial scene, with a pin for each location and the scene summary panel on the right.

A menu organised the way a family thinks

The “Explore Marymount” menu lists every scene with a thumbnail, grouped into Campus Grounds, Shared Spaces, Teaching Spaces, Sports Facilities and Boarding. Those headings follow the questions families tend to ask: where will she learn, where will she live, what is there to do. The scene you are in is marked, so it is always easy to see where you are.

Explore Marymount scene menu on desktop and mobile — The scene menu, grouped by area, on desktop and mobile.

A summary for every scene

Each of the 31 scenes has a short written summary in a panel at the edge of the screen, explaining what the space is and how it is used. The panel also shows which scene you are on, with previous and next buttons, so someone who prefers to be led can simply step through the school in order. On a phone the summary folds away at the bottom of the screen and opens with a tap.

Hotspots that add the detail

Information hotspots sit on points of interest within the scenes, such as the piano in the Parlour or the altar in the Chapel, and open a short note about what happens there. A counter at the top of the screen shows how many hotspots a scene has and how many you have opened, with a list that will turn the view to face each one. Nobody has to hunt around a panorama to find what they have missed.

An information hotspot open in the Parlour scene — A hotspot open in the Parlour, with the same scene shown on a phone.

Admissions questions answered inside the tour

A “Questions” panel answers the things families most often ask: who the school is for, the programmes taught, boarding options, how to apply, fees, scholarships, travel, visiting and who to contact. Each answer opens in place, and several link on to the relevant page of the school’s website. A visitor who is curious about boarding while standing in a boarding lounge can get the answer without leaving the tour.

Common questions panel in the Marymount virtual tour — Common questions, answered without leaving the tour.

Find us: an interactive location map

For an international school, where it is matters as much as what it looks like. The “Find us” panel shows the campus on an interactive map alongside nearby rail stations, airports, the main road and places close by, with a link to get directions. It answers the practical question of how a family would get there.

Find us map panel showing stations and airports near the school — The Find us panel, with stations, airports and road links listed beside the map.

Four languages, and accessibility settings

The whole tour, including the interface, scene summaries and hotspots, can be switched between English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and French. The same panel holds a set of display and accessibility options: always show hotspot labels, hide hotspots for a clear view, larger text, high contrast, and reduced motion for visitors who find movement on screen uncomfortable.

The Marymount tour switched to Spanish with the accessibility panel open — The tour in Spanish, with the accessibility and display panel open.

Your visit: progress and what to see next

The tour keeps track of the scenes each visitor has opened and shows the count in the side rail. The “Your visit” panel lists what has been seen, suggests where to go next, and offers a fresh start. On a tour of this size it encourages people to keep exploring and helps them pick up where they left off.

Your visit panel showing scenes viewed and suggestions — Your visit: scenes viewed so far and suggestions for what to see next.

An enquiry form one click away

A “Contact Admissions” button stays on screen throughout. It opens the school’s own enquiry form in a panel over the tour, so a visitor can get in touch at the moment they are most interested and then carry on looking around. There are also direct links to apply online.

The school enquiry form opened inside the virtual tour — The school’s enquiry form, opened inside the tour.

Sharing, a guided tour and a quick guide

The share panel offers a link to the tour, a link to the exact view on screen, an embed code and social sharing, which is useful when the admissions team wants to send a family straight to a particular room. A guided tour mode moves through the scenes automatically, auto rotate and fullscreen are one click away, and a five-step quick guide explains the controls to anyone who has not used a 360 tour before.

Quick guide explaining how to look around the tour — The quick guide, shown the first time someone asks how to use the tour.

Built for mobile as carefully as for desktop

Many prospective families will open the tour on a phone, so the mobile version has its own layout. The controls move to a compact bar at the top, the scene summary sits in a drawer at the bottom, and the menus, questions and map become full-screen sheets that are comfortable to use with a thumb.

Four mobile views of the Marymount virtual tour — On a phone: the aerial view, the Chapel, common questions and the scene menu.

Self hosted, with no platform fee

Like our other bespoke tours, this one is delivered as a self-contained website. It can be linked to, embedded in the school’s admissions pages, or opened full screen, and there is no annual platform subscription for the tour itself. If you would like something similar for your school, take a look at our school virtual tours or get in touch for a quote.

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