Our Aims and Ethos

Surbiton High School aims to bring out the best in everyone: to discover the best in everyone, to expect the best from everyone, and to support everyone to achieve their personal best. Our school motto "May love always lead us" encourages respect for and service to others.

Surbiton High School is a friendly and vibrant community where individuals thrive and feel happy, secure, confident and valued. Our approach combines an intellectually rigorous and challenging academic environment with outstanding pastoral care and support.

We create this ethos and achieve these aims by:

• Providing a broad, balanced, challenging and enriching educational experience for all pupils.
• Nurturing the growth of intellectual curiosity, creativity and independent learning.
• Creating opportunities for leadership and challenge.
• Fostering a lifelong love of learning.
• Ensuring relationships are based on mutual respect.
• Encouraging hard work and commitment.
• Offering a wide range of extra-curricular activities and enrichment programmes.
• Working in partnership with parents; encouraging them to be actively involved in their child's education.
• Preparing pupils for their subsequent education and their future lives.
• Celebrating success and achievement.

Surbiton High School is part of the United Church Schools Trust, an Anglican foundation, which while valuing and building on its Christian heritage welcomes staff and pupils from all faiths and none. We share with other UCST schools a commitment to a set of core characteristics:

• The intellectual freedom to be creative
• The confidence to initiate
• The flexibility to respond to challenge, change and adversity
• The compassion to serve others
• The spirit to enjoy life
• The integrity to be trustworthy
• The motivation to have a lifelong love of learning

This statement of the School's aims and ethos applies to the whole School including boarders and those in our EYFS setting. It is available on the website for parents and the wider community.