Kent College

Kent College Pembury is one of the leading independent senior schools for girls in Kent. Our ethos is founded on nurturing confidence and providing an exciting range of opportunities to inspire and achieve success. Our pupils achieve excellent examination results with high levels of Value Added. This means they achieve significantly better GCSE and A-level results than predicted from their entry level scores, enabling them to proceed to universities of their choice to fulfil their cherished ambitions.

Kent College Preparatory School is one of the leading independent preparatory schools for girls in Kent. We believe that a happy, confident child is a successful one and our girls love school.

We focus on the academic, social and emotional development of our pupils, providing opportunities for them to challenge themselves, have fun, flourish and dream in an idyllic rural setting.

Kent College is committed to providing continuity of education during this difficult time.  To do this we have enthusiastically embraced online remote learning. New technology and personalised support are combined to keep our girls learning, whilst also maintaining the excellent pastoral care that sets us apart from other schools. Learning can be remote but the girls don’t have to feel alone.

As well as maintaining the academic provision for the girls, we are investing equal time, energy and resource into supporting them pastorally, just as we would when they are at school.  We are continuing with form time at the beginning of the day when tutors ensure that the girls and their families are all well.  Tutors are also checking that girls are coping with the work being delivered and set, and that their friendships and online social lives are happy and healthy.   Our Chaplain is recording his weekly assembly for the girls, which reinforces our school ethos of doing ‘all the good you can’.

Vision
To inspire girls with a love of learning so that they may grow in mind and spirit

Mission
Kent College exists to provide an inspirational education that enables girls to develop into courageous young women equipped to make a purposeful contribution to the world.

Kent College girls are

• Generous - support each other, their community and the wider world
• Resilient - see mistakes as an opportunity to learn
• Independent - prepared to take their place in the world
• Tenacious - ambitious and determined

Core values

• Daily life at Kent College is underpinned by the Wesleyan values of 'doing all the good you can' in a tolerant and supportive Christian ethos.
• We provide an inspirational education framework in which intellectual curiosity and love of learning is fostered.
• We place, physical, spiritual and mental wellbeing at the heart of school life.
• We value and celebrate each girl as an individual.

Methodist Schools' Mission Statement

Kent College is one of 14 British schools which are managed by the Board of Management for Methodist Residential Schools and Colleges.

The aims of the Methodist schools are:

• To be caring Christian family communities committed to the development of the full potential of each individual, having regard for their personal attributes in addition to their academic aspirations
• To maintain high educational standards in all their academic, cultural and sporting activities, stimulating excitement in learning and requiring discipline in study whatever the ability of the child
• To work with and in the communities they serve
• To worship as Christians in the Methodist tradition; to uphold Christian values in practice as well as in theory and to make religious education a strong feature of the curriculum, whilst welcoming members of other faiths (and none) in a spirit of openness and tolerance
• To encourage pupils in a critical examination of the standards and values current in society and to discover and develop a personal faith to guide them throughout their lives