Charles Darwin School

Welcome you to Charles Darwin School. We are proud to be a truly comprehensive school; a school where all students are valued, supported and inspired. At Charles Darwin we provide a truly excellent educational experience for all our students.

Charles Darwin School is a creative and dynamic school where our students flourish and make excellent progress. Above all, we want our students to enjoy their learning experiences and to leave with skills, values and memories that will stay with them throughout their adult lives and equip them for future employment.

We have calm, positive and engaging learning environments where students are encouraged to explore their learning and develop the knowledge and skills to be successful. We have high expectations of our students and their attitudes to learning, combined with our strong pastoral system we ensure our students are in a positive and productive learning environment.

Learning at Charles Darwin extends beyond the classroom and we actively encourage and support our students to engage in the wide range of extra-curricular clubs and activities, trips, competitions and charity work.

The breadth of subjects across the curriculum offers students the greatest choice and opportunity for personalisation of their studies, enabling them to develop, excel and succeed in their passions to the very highest standards. We believe that all our students have talent and everyone can achieve. It is one of the many reasons why Charles Darwin School is a school of choice and is so successful

Our Key Purpose
Charles Darwin School is committed to creating and maintaining a caring community in which students are enabled to confidently meet the challenges of the wider world and where educational excellence is encouraged and fostered purposefully.

Specifically, we will endeavour to:

• Enable each student to develop personally, social and intellectually through engaging in a broad range of learning experiences.
• Enable all students to make the most of their intellectual ability through the attainment of high academic standards.
• Enable students to develop into independent and responsible citizens ready to contribute positively to an ever-changing world.
• Provide a secure moral framework where pupils can develop values congruent with civilised society.
• Prepare students to play an active part in building a caring community.
• Ensure that each student develops a positive sense of self-worth which will contribute to a self–disciplined, determined approach to the pursuit of their goals.

In order to achieve these broad aims, it is our belief, that the curriculum be able to provide all students with the opportunity to learn through engaging in a broad range of academic and practical subjects, in a well determined programme that:

• Creates an aspirational culture
• Considers fully individual student needs.
• Allows everyone to experience success
• Raises overall standards of achievement
• Fosters the acquisition of good behaviours and attitudes.
• Enables students to live safe and happy lives.