Our Vision & Mission
To be recognised as the leading Catholic, independent, day and boarding school in the United Kingdom.
To realise – in mind, body and spirit –the full potential of every member of the St Edmund’s Family, through Catholic values, learning, service and leadership. Avita Pro Fide.
Our Objectives
Instilling values
To form young adults whose moral compass is defined by our shared values and who, through the deeds and the example of their own lives, will make the world a better place.
A love of learning
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Building lasting, trusted partnerships
To ensure that parents and guardians understand our aims and values, and that they feel well and appropriately supported in the upbringing of their children.
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That pupils will develop a lifelong love of learning – in all its forms –and that they will gain the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable them to be leaders within society, fulfilling their potential and achieving qualifications that will open pathways to future success and prosperity. Service, leadership
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selflessness
To make a positive, sustained contribution to the wider community through proactive servant leadership – locally, nationally and internationally.
Ensuring sustainability
To ensure that St Edmund’s College and Prep School face the future with confidence and thrive in the decades to come.
“ To form young adults whose moral compass is defined by our shared values and who, through the deeds and the example of their own lives, will make the world a better place.”
OBJECTIVE 1
Instilling values
How will we do this?
By providing a rounded education for the whole person: academic, intellectual, moral, physical, emotional and spiritual.
By promoting Catholic Social Teaching and by celebrating our heritage.
By keeping prayer, worship and liturgy central to our lives and to our community.
By promoting our shared Edmundian Virtues.
Specifically:
Continue to provide outstanding pastoral support, focusing on the specific needs of each individual pupil.
Maintain and project high expectations – of both pupils and staff – around good manners, kindness and respect.
Encourage and explain the Catholic way of life, recognising the diversity of beliefs within the community and meeting pupils where they are in their own spiritual development.
Continue to provide a world class, relevant, engaging and enriching co-curricular programme, ensuring that co-curricular life is demonstrably of equal quality and importance to the academic programme.
Continue to develop life in Rhetoric to encourage maturity and independence, providing the best possible and most relevant preparation for life beyond school.
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pupils will develop a lifelong love of learning – in all its forms – and that they will gain the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable them to be leaders within society, fulfilling their potential and achieving qualifications that will open pathways to future success and prosperity.”
OBJECTIVE 2
A love for learning
How will we do this?
By providing a balanced and challenging curriculum which is inspiring and appropriate to the needs of each individual pupil.
By facilitating the highest standards of teaching, learning and ambition.
Specifically:
Continually review and develop the curriculum to ensure that it remains both relevant and focused upon the needs of our pupils.
Continue to develop High Performance Learning (HPL), building on our recent accreditation as a HPL World Class School.
Through detailed analysis, formulate a policy as to whether some pupils are taking an unnecessarily high number of GCSEs, recognising that quality can be more important than quantity.
Research and develop the constructive use of Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning.
Improve opportunities for staff in terms of Career and Professional Development.
“ To make a positive, sustained contribution to the wider community through proactive servant leadership –locally, nationally and internationally.”
OBJECTIVE 3
Service, leadership and selflessness
How will we do this?
By encouraging a global perspective in our students and ourselves.
By raising awareness of where help is needed in the world.
By enabling pupils to become actively involved in service to others.
Specifically:
Raise and measure pupil awareness, understanding and engagement around global issues and events, as well as cultural, religious and societal diversity, promoting both empathy and inclusion.
Consistently provide opportunities to volunteer within the local community and beyond.
Continue to develop community partnerships – be they formal or informal – with local schools, clubs and organisations.
Continue to provide opportunities for overseas travel, balancing leisure and fun with learning and inter-cultural exposure.
Celebrate our global alumni network.
“ To ensure that parents and guardians understand our aims and values, and that they feel well and appropriately supported in the upbringing of their children.”
OBJECTIVE 4
Building lasting, trusted partnerships
How will we do this?
By engaging parents and guardians from the very beginning of their journeys within the school.
By explaining and advocating the values and benefits of an Edmundian education.
By collaborating with families to ensure unity of direction between home and school life.
Specifically:
Streamlined, structured, relevant and better-focused communications with parents.
Providing ongoing opportunity for parents to seek advice from teachers regarding the education and upbringing of their children
Create opportunities for parents to share their own parenting experiences, as well as their experiences of the school.
Provide regular presentations and online content for parents by both visiting and in-house speakers on societal issues relating to their children.
“ To ensure that St Edmund’s College and Prep School face the future with confidence and thrive in the decades to come.”
OBJECTIVE 5
Ensuring sustainability
How will we do this?
By deepening our understanding of the school’s environmental footprint.
By growing an annual surplus that enables continual, substantial and environmentally responsible investment into the fabric of our site.
By enabling an ever-growing number of pupils to benefit from a St Edmund’s education.
Specifically:
Implement a consistent, appropriate and environmentally sympathetic programme of infrastructure development, maintenance and refurbishment.
Build pupil numbers for greater economies of scale