Vision and Values
Our vision is for every child’s education to be a journey of joy, self-assurance and personal achievement, making them confident, happy and successful.
Our Values
We aim for all our pupils to cherish our four school values:
- Kindness: always be friendly, generous and considerate
- Respect: treating others fairly and valuing who they are
- Integrity: doing the right thing even when no one is looking
- Balance: keeping all parts of life in harmony for healthy growth and happiness
Godstowe's motto is Finem Respice - Reach towards your goal
Our ethos is simple. All we want is for our girls and boys to be happy, confident and successful. Indeed, if the first two are true, the third will almost certainly follow. Success is defined in many ways, and we mean successful in the broadest sense: successfully kind, successfully courteous as well as successful in achieving a wide range of goals. We keep our pupils busy and engaged, we entertain and intrigue them, encourage them, and excite them.
Happy children are easy to teach. With outstanding, highly qualified teaching staff as well as a strong and experienced pastoral team, excellent facilities, wonderful surroundings, a non-selective intake policy and a more positive, exuberant and industrious atmosphere than you will find in other schools, it is likely that most of our children will be happy to learn, happy to stretch themselves, happy to support each other, and happy to do whatever they can to take an active part in their own education.
