Marlborough College

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Marlborough provides an exceptional, contemporary education set in a beautiful environment steeped in history. It is a welcoming community where ambition and scholarship are highly valued, creativity is celebrated, diversity is embraced, and where each pupil is encouraged and challenged to be the best that they can be.

Marlborough College offers a contemporary, challenging, and enriching education for pupils with aspirations. In an incomparable setting on the edge of a beautiful historic market town, it offers outstanding facilities and exciting opportunities academically, in sport, and the Arts. Pupils are inspired to pursue excellence and to value achievement highly.

Marlburians characteristically look beyond themselves and have a profound sense of service to others. Connections with the College’s alumni within the UK and internationally are strong and valued with Marlborough College Malaysia providing an important global aspect of the Marlborough family.

VisionTo is recognized as the leading provider of a world-class, balanced, co-educational, boarding experience. To promote a Marlborough education to a broad national and international pupil body and to fulfill its primary charitable purpose of educating young people, including a proportion of pupils who would otherwise be unable to afford the fees.

MissionTo foster excellence through teaching and learning, promoting the strongest possible educational values. Marlburians should develop into responsible and confident young adults with the skills to make a difference in whatever they choose to do.

Values

• Respect: Marlburians will have the integrity to do what is right, not what is easy, and they will be able to respect and celebrate differences between people and communities.
• Responsibility: Marlburians will take responsibility for themselves and others also for their lifelong learning and development, and for making a positive contribution to others and the world around them.
• Rigour: Marlburians will strive for rigor in all that they do. They will leave no stone unturned in achieving the ambitious goals they set for themselves and others.

We are a community of respectful, yet determined people who aim to create a secure and nurturing environment through quiet confidence and compassion.

Everyone should be expected to add value to our community, and through unity and mutual respect, we can thrive. We can influence society by actively seeking opportunities to make an impact.

We should be driven by aspiration, and dealing with failure should push the boundaries of our potential, enabling us to thrive in all areas of school life.

As individuals, we should lead by example and encourage what is right and not what is easy.

We want our pupils to know, understand and appreciate:

• The origins and chronology of western and other cultures
• The origins and development of Britain
• The basic physical geography of the planet
• The issues of the day the lives of people outside Marlborough College and Great Britain
• The processes of the scientific method
• The nature and importance of language
• The basic principles of ethical theory
• The importance of spirituality and reflection

We want our pupils to be able to:

• Learn independently
• Interact confidently and respectfully with others
• talk articulately and present information effectively
• Write accurately and effectively
• Make critical judgments
• Organize their time
• Take advice and learn from criticism
• Demonstrate their numeracy
• Use a language other than English competently
• Research effectively
• Make connections between subjects

We want our pupils to experience and engage with:

• Learning for its own sake
• People with diverse backgrounds and experience
• High expectations from all their teachers
• Collaborative endeavors
• The idea of service
• Opportunities for reflection
• A wide range of physical challenges
• Experience of both success and failure

We want our pupils to be:

• Compassionate and considerate
• Intellectually curious and interested in ideas
• Prepared for an academic challenge
• Self-motivated, self-disciplined, and independent
• Able to take the initiative
• Respectful of people from other times, backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures
• Properly aware of their strengths and weaknesses
• Properly ambitious and aspirational
• Open-minded

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