Our philosophy
We do not want school to be the place where a child grows bored and loses interest. The eagerness a child feels setting off on holiday is the feeling we want them to have on a school morning.
We have worked with that idea for twenty years. What we have learned in that time is simple: a child learns when they enjoy learning.
20 years of teaching experience
Our approach rests on the child being a participant in the lesson rather than an audience for it. What we do not do is as much a part of that approach as what we do.
Both are simple enough to say in a single sentence. Below we explain what they mean in practice.
Delight our Team to WOW our Students.
If a teacher does not feel valued and supported, the child in the classroom feels it too. So we look after our team first.
We try to build a place of work where a teacher can grow, say what they think freely and is never left alone with a problem. A teacher who comes to work willingly passes that willingness on to the child.
Inspiring lives. One student at a time.
The last part of that sentence is the part that matters to us: one student at a time. We are interested in individual children, not in totals.
What interests a child, what they find difficult and how they learn differ from one child to the next. We keep classes small so that our teachers can see that difference.
Excessive academic pressure wears down a child’s mental health and their general wellbeing. So we watch the balance between lessons and the time a child keeps for themselves.
We do not leave a struggling child on their own. We stand beside students who find anxiety hard to manage, and we build the school as a place where a child feels safe.
We built the program not only around academic results but around how a child feels while learning. In the end both improve: results go up and the weight on the child comes down.
A school’s philosophy only means something once you have seen it in a classroom. Come and walk the campus, and meet our teachers.