Our vision

Developing knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world

Our values

Caring: We show empathy, compassion and respect. We have a commitment to service, and we act to make a positive difference in the lives of others and in the world around us.

Open-minded: We critically appreciate our own cultures and personal histories, as well as the values and traditions of others. We seek and evaluate a range of points of view, and we are willing to grow from the experience.

Principled: We act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness and justice, and with respect for the dignity and rights of people everywhere. We take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

Our aims (2024-2027)

A high quality academic education: an ambitious curriculum, highly effective teaching, exceptional achievement & aspirational destinations

1. Provide a broad and balanced academic curriculum, featuring highly ambitious and carefully sequenced subject curriculums, that enables all students to build the knowledge and skills for future learning and employment. 

2. Ensure students experience high quality lessons, characterised by: high challenge for all, high quality talk, frequent guided and independent practice, meaningful feedback, excellent support for learning and regular opportunities for knowledge retrieval (The DC6). 

3. Ensure that all students, including the most disadvantaged and those with SEN, achieve exceptionally well and attain the very highest grades in order to access and succeed at world-class universities, the most competitive undergraduate courses and high quality employment-based opportunities.

4. Provide varied and enriching extracurricular opportunities, including high quality educational visits, that support the curriculum and build students’ cultural capital.

Safeguarding, personal development and behaviour & attitudes: outstanding relationships

5. Maintain our open and positive whole-school safeguarding culture that puts students’ interests first.

6. Provide an excellent personal development curriculum, including PSHE and careers education, to empower students to make positive choices and prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of life in modern Britain.

7. Ensure very high levels of student attendance.

8. Foster a caring, open-minded and principled school community where we all act with integrity and honesty, and students become respectful and confident global citizens and young leaders.

Leadership: making a difference

9. Make a significant contribution to the education of young people across Thanet through partnerships and collaboration with other schools, particularly those within the Coastal Academies Trust.  

10. Ensure that staff are well-supported and workload is well-managed. 

11. Provide high quality teacher training opportunities, and coherent and ambitious career and professional development pathways for all colleagues.  

12. Manage the budget to ensure the maintenance of a high quality working and learning environment with excellent facilities and resources