Aims:

• to promote excellence in all areas, and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full
• to provide academic teaching and to foster learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities
• to promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere, in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers, and all can use their talents for the greater good of our community and for society as a whole
• to nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values
• to recognize each member of the School community as unique, with talents to develop and a contribution to make.

Within those aims, the School also tries to maintain a population of children from a variety of backgrounds. It will admit pupils, not solely on academic ability but with a range of qualities, abilities and talents, who can make a real contribution to the success and welfare of the School in many different ways.