School Aims & Values
To promote excellence in all areas of school life
The aims of Colfe’s School – as determined within the strategic plan – are:
- to promote excellence in all areas of school life and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full, whilst ensuring that each child is happy and developing their unique potential;
- to provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality, together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and co-curricular activities;
- to nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst its pupils in accordance with the principles of the Founder, Abraham Colfe;
- to maintain a balanced and diverse community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;
- to promote a purposeful, disciplined, supportive and respectful atmosphere in which all pupils are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole;
- to be the co-educational independent school of choice in south-east London.