British Overseas School

The British Overseas School aims to be recognized internationally as a leader in the provision of modern, high quality UK education. To achieve this we are committed to creating an educational ethos and environment from which the whole school community will benefit in terms of their learning, development and growth. We believe that our students will leave us as creative, constructive and responsible members of the international community instilled with enough enthusiasm, passion and ambition to last a lifetime.

The BOS is the first and only school in Pakistan to be accredited as a British School Overseas. This accreditation is recognition of the standards to which we adhere in every area of our operation. It means that families accustomed to the British education system can join the BOS confident in their expectations.

Any organisations, perhaps especially schools, are able to compile long lists of their values. A lexicon of how we would like our organisations to be.  Concepts that overlap or conflict or bear no relation to each other.

At the BOS we value learning above all, and it is our commitment to it that binds all that we value and all that we do.

We value learning not in its narrowest meaning: memorizing knowledge; not even in its next iteration: understanding. We value learning in its widest sense; a sense that incorporates curiosity, investigation and experimentation and leads us to reflection, creativity, and risk-taking. A sense of learning that ranges across the academic and the practical and takes in the emotional and the physical.

The value of learning is apparent across the whole school – from the youngest to the oldest. We are all learning, all the time. It sounds easy, but it isn’t. Whatever your age, learning demands courage. The courage to make mistakes, the courage to say “I don’t know”, the courage to be vulnerable amongst your peers. To encourage students and teachers to take the risk of learning we create an environment that is safe, secure and supportive. It is an environment in which we treat other with respect and in which we welcome thoughtful contribution. We encourage students and teachers to explore; we encourage them to try, we encourage them to wonder. Then, we ask them to reflect and to consider and to think.

This is learning. It is valuable at all times and at every age.

Our vision takes shape through our mission, which is to give our students and our staff:

• the opportunities to develop and flourish
• the knowledge from which to question
• the skills with which to learn
• the safety to make mistakes
• the trust to learn from those mistakes
• the support to become independent
• the guidance to succeed
• the environment in which to cooperate, to compete and to care
• the chance to smile, to laugh and to enjoy coming to school
• the character with which to lead
• the values by which to live