Please scan "The Twelve Tenets of a Great School" which reflect the values held dear to King's-Edgehill School and to which I will be attributing my energy and commitment to uphold.

A GREAT SCHOOL:

• Permits learning to be exercised where risk is a natural condition, where questioning is accepted, where resources are plentiful and where demands are so rigourous that students run academically with their brakes off.
• Engages teachers who are themselves highly literate and can share their enthusiasm for their subject disciplines, instilling in their students a love of learning that is life-long and alluring.
• Provides students with so many extra-curricular opportunities that everyone is capable of finding something at which to excel.
• Exists with few rules but high standards of behaviour rooted in simple respect.
• Creates a dynamic community which is professionally introspective in the search for a better way to serve student needs and where change is constant, but evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
• Encourages moral and behavioural independence by empowering students to assume responsibility for their own conduct.
• Provides 'Universal Literacy' in a school culture which encourages the power of imagination with programmes providing endless opportunities for self expression, and where the use of new technologies is kept in that perspective.  (N.B. 'Universal Literacy' is a Peter Drucker term which goes beyond the traditional demands of reading, writing and arithmetic to include a knowledge of technology, science, foreign languages and the ability to operate successfully as a fully contributing member of a company or institution).
• Creates an atmosphere of academic freedom which lauds the pursuit of excellence and accepts failure in the same context as a necessary component of personal growth and development.
• Engenders strong leadership at all levels of the operation.
• Ensures an awareness among students of their need to balance self interests with community responsibilities.
• Provides a system of accountability to both students and parents by setting high standards and providing constant monitoring of students' progress.
• Produces young adults who have the capacity for good judgement and who show their intelligence by thinking and behaving logically, rationally and compassionately in all matters involving the human condition.

Should you also be attracted to these values and would like to receive the 'personal' education offered at King's-Edgehill School, I would be delighted to invite you to take the entrance tests and undergo the interviews. Such a process is in place to ensure that the prospective student and the School are in harmony in their views and expectations: after all, education is a personal thing.