Our Mission Statement:
Priory School is a thriving, co-educational independent school founded upon a rich Catholic heritage which welcomes those from all faiths and none. In partnership with parents and guardians we provide a nurturing, family-based ethos, alongside high standards of teaching and learning, enabling all pupils to achieve their potential.
We embrace diversity and interfaith understanding alongside awareness of environmental and global issues, in response to the needs of our time.
Our Vision Statement:
We are a family orientated school devoted to the promotion and celebration of our multicultural community in order to inspire and foster a lifelong love of learning on a truly equal footing. Our heritage is our foundation from which we educate our students to become responsible global citizens. We embrace diversity and interfaith understanding alongside awareness of environmental and global issues, in response to the needs of our time.
We strive to embrace the talents of all students recognising the power of opportunity and offering a broad range of extracurricular enrichment activities, alongside a chance to contribute to the community we serve through charitable missions. We understand the importance of nature to develop healthy, and positive lifestyles with an outdoor curriculum.
Taught in small class sizes, our curriculum is diverse and rigorous fostering curiosity, challenge and independent learning enabling us to target the needs of the individual. We invest in the development of our teaching staff, and those at early career and entry level, understanding our responsibility to ensure excellence for the future.
We are proud of our heritage and the international connections which enables us to fully encompass the values of our global family, striving to make a difference on environmental and humanitarian issues.
We promote the importance of mental health within our exemplary pastoral model where an onsite school counsellor and mental health ambassadors support our students, developing strategies to manage the modern world effectively.
Overall, our ‘high aspirations and high expectations’ encourage determination and resilience equipping our students with empathy, flexibility, and a strong moral compass for life.
Our School Aims:
- To promote a safe, family orientated community based upon the values of Cornelia Connelly the founder of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and derived from our rich Catholic heritage.
- To achieve academic success through high standards of teaching and learning.
- To actively promote and celebrate intercultural multi-faith understanding, inclusivity and genuine care and empathy for all community members.
- To respond to the wants of the age through an understanding of environmental and global issues.
- To encourage physical fitness and healthy lifestyles including effective use of the outdoor environment.
- To applaud determination, tenacity, resilience, commitment and effort.
- To encourage personal initiative, self-discipline, and responsibility.
- To encourage students to act and make judgements in a fair-minded, balanced and sensitive way.
- To value each student for their unique talents, abilities and qualities assisting them to achieve their potential.
- To work collaboratively with parents and guardians ensuring effective standards of communication.
