Children join our school from many different cultures and backgrounds and within a very short time they experience the warmth and excitement of making new friends and feeling part of a community.  

Our small classes and caring,  highly qualified staff ensure that the needs of all our students  are met from our 3 year olds through to our 18 year olds.  As with all our values, the wider issues of inclusion within the global community are explored within the curriculum.  

All our students have a voice; we listen, respect and act.

Learning can be tough, taking on new challenges can be tough and growing from mistakes can be tough.  Through encouragement and  positive praise our students learn to understand these feelings, face them, work to overcome them and then experience the joy that results.

Our students are inspired by learning about ‘Great Lives’.  They particularly enjoy learning how high achievers overcame adversity to gain success.  They  gain inspiration from those within their own community and notably from each other.  They are motivated by the efforts and ideas of those around them. 

This value is evident in the way our students  inspire others  through their creativity, vision, drive and zest to make a difference.

Students are given the skills, knowledge and understanding to be able to apply their learning to innovative ideas, solve problems and act with creativity.  We encourage and model Innovation in all areas of the curriculum and throughout school life.

We are an ever-changing international community with students representing dozens of different nationalities.  This rich diversity within our school is a source of great celebration and provides opportunities to develop tolerance, understanding and respect for different cultures.  

Caring for our global environment and the greater global community is a central focus for our whole school.

We get to know our students really well.  We try to understand the best way they learn, their areas of strength, areas in which they struggle and their underlying attitudes and interests.  We respect them as individuals and all that  they have to offer.  Celebrating individuality supports the development of tolerance, understanding of difference, the development of social skills  and also of the  importance of the way as individuals we can work together.  Each and every individual in our school matters.

All our ‘I’ values come together to enable  the wondrous imagination of our students to come alive.  They are  given the skills, respect and time to allow their imagination to come to life in the their ideas, writing, art work, music and problem solving within all areas of the curriculum and life.

At every age, level and subject teachers  plan to ‘hook’ the students into their learning by piquing their interests and curiosity to want to  find out more.  We encourage questioning  and allow learning to follow the interests of the student. By providing experiences and opportunities and developing skills students develop enquiring minds that challenge and question their world around them.  Fuelling the students inquisitive nature provides the motivation for independent, lifelong  learning.