Aims
The School intends to provide for all students a happy, caring and challenging environment in which they will receive a balanced, broadly-based curriculum designed to help develop lively, enquiring minds, the ability to question and argue rationally and which promotes the acquisition of knowledge and skill. Whilst respecting what students can do now, we will help them respond to the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life, in particular their understanding of the world in which they live and the importance of their contribution to its future development. In this we recognise ....
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1. that the education of all students is held to be of equal value
and equality of opportunity is provided for all students to meet
individual needs.
2. the need to offer the widest range of learning opportunities to develop knowledge and skills appropriate to life-long learning: for example; academic, analytical, numerical, investigative, creative, communicative, aesthetic and technological, moral and physical.
3. the importance of appropriate teaching and active learning methods.
4.. the need for a supportive, disciplined and stimulating environment.
5. the need for an understanding and tolerance of other races, religions and cultures.
6. the contribution made by success and personal achievement in the development of confidence, self-respect and commitment.
7. the importance of developing each student’s capacity for self-awareness, for taking responsibility and for evaluating his or her progress, achievements and the identification of subsequent goals.
8. the importance of partnership between school, home and community.
9. the importance of helping students develop as responsible members of society who have respect for themselves, other and the world in which we live.
10.the importance of developing all staff professionally in support of these aims.
