NEWS
‘A school community where all are inspired to explore, empowered to express and challenged to excel’.
He based this foundation firmly on Christian values focused on building a tolerant, caring and compassionate society. Almost a century later those values endure and Canford, now more diverse and balanced in its composition, remains a school community committed to educating young men and women to make a real and positive difference in a challenging and often inequitable world.
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We have recently been doing a lot of work to ensure that Canford’s Vision, Mission and Values are as clearly articulated as possible so we can continue to build on the work started in 1923 by Canford’s Founder, the Reverend Percy Warrington. His aim was ‘to fit boys to take their place in the battle of life and develop their character in every way’.
Our vision states, we are ‘A school community where all are inspired to explore, empowered to express and challenged to excel’. Each day I have the privilege of engaging with young people who turn those words into a reality, supported wholeheartedly by Canford’s fantastic teaching and support staff. The many and varied high profile achievements within our school community make me feel extremely proud, yet alongside them I am equally heartened by the small things which so often go unrecognised; the individual acts of kindness of one pupil towards another, the encouragement and support of our community, picking each other up when we fall down.