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School Ethos & Vision

Great Marlow School’s vision is to ensure a ‘high quality learning environment that inspires students, staff and the community to be compassionate, successful and resilient contributors that will create a better society.’

To create opportunities, realise potential and achieve excellence, all members of the school community must adopt a shared set of values. GMS’s core values are:

  • excellence
  • compassion
  • integrity

In addition, we have introduced a whole school programme under the banner, ‘My Personal Best’, which focuses on explicitly developing and recognising the following skills:

  • reflection
  • resourcefulness
  • readiness
  • resilience
  • responsibility
  • respect

Through our vision and values, we strive to achieve the following:

  • Provide a broad and balanced curriculum fit for today’s world and the future, which challenges aspirations and makes achievement for all a reality.
  • Enable students to enjoy school, leading to them becoming lifelong learners.
  • Develop successful global citizens by promoting a strong sense of self-belief; collective identity; an appreciation of diversity; and the value of giving through charitable endeavours.
  • Develop a staff who are dynamic, highly skilled and passionate and who have a shared vision to deliver successful and outstanding teaching and learning.
  • Deliver a high quality safe school environment that inspires students, staff and the community to excel.
  • Ensure the school is financially secure through highly effective management of existing resources, while further developing our relationship with our community and commerce locally, nationally and internationally.
  • Drive the school forward with a clarity of vision and strategy implemented by a skilled, dedicated leadership team and governors.