Our Vision

Everything we do as a College is centred on learning in its widest possible sense. Learning and embedding the skills, capabilities and knowledge that will encourage the continual growth and development of each individual throughout their life. Our overarching aim is to ensure that each individual is educated and supported to succeed in the world today - as an individual, as a partner, as a member of a team and as a citizen.

Our Vision

Our vision is to create an Aspirational School:

A healthy school, a school that makes a difference to the lives of everyone associated with it.  A school that makes it possible for all members of the school community to meet their dreams. In an Aspirational School the individual growth of everyone is paramount. Opportunities abound, support is manifest and people feel empowered. All members of an Aspirational School are encouraged to not only develop themselves, raise their aspirations and self-belief, but to also play a significant part in the development of others. People are expected to be generative and to give as much as they receive.

To make this happen our objectives are:

• To RECOGNISE, REALISE and RELEASE the potential in each individual
• To develop in our students responsibility, but in doing so: set limits, provide choices, establish consequences
• To empower our students to take charge of their future
• To encourage our students to develop high aspirations
• To value and support fully, regardless of circumstance, each individual
• To provide high quality, academic, vocational, social and life education
• To provide a range of potentially life-changing experiences
• To give each student the opportunity to learn and experience what it is to be a good citizen
• To develop student participation in learning, school development and in the wider community

We are committed to the individual growth of each individual:

• All individuals are encouraged to believe they have a unique contribution to make to their community, to develop in them the skills to understand and value themselves, as well as encouraging them to see that they have the potential to improve.
• We want all people to become confident enough in their own abilities so they help nurture the development of others.

The benefits of this kind of personal growth are potentially enormous, but to make it happen we need to develop the skills and desire in people to take responsibility for their own learning we aim to get everyone to WANT to learn.

The challenge facing the college, and society as a whole, is to raise the self-esteem and aspirations of our college community, as well as helping provide individuals and groups with the skills and tools needed to enable them to enjoy personal success, whatever that might be. The framework we are using to achieve this aim is that provided by the eight conditions for raising Student Aspirations.