Our Aims and Ethos

We teach using a stream of real life experiences These are offered by the school community and the wider community, and involve all of us. We are transparent in how we work and in our decision making processes. Visitors to the school are welcome at any time and without prior appointment. Sign in at the School Office when you arrive.

We are committed to an active education. We believe that if a child has participated with his or her whole body in a learning experience, he or she is more likely to remember it and absorb its value on a number of levels. We seek to develop the immeasurable, not just the parts of education that can be easily labelled, tested and accounted for.

We teach the requirements of the National Curriculum, but we go beyond this focus by offering a stream of experiences which anchor education in the real world. We do this in partnership with the local community - working with a special school and with a variety of institutions in different countries. The school attracts visitors from all over Britain and overseas who come to observe the imaginative teaching methods.

There is a brochure available which gives in more detail, information about the curriculum, class sizes, admission policies, the structure of the teaching organisation and information about home-school liaison, and health and religious education. Please contact us to have one sent to you.