Walhampton School

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Few schools can match all that Walhampton offers. We believe this stunning setting, together with our distinctive ethos, allows children to stay younger for longer - a precious thing in this day and age. Welcome to Walhampton.

We provide outstanding all-around education and are proud of our consistently impressive results. Children are extremely well prepared when they move on to some of the country's leading senior schools, locally and nationally.

Being successful in exams is only part of the story, albeit an important one. We aim to develop the whole person: physically, spiritually, and emotionally as well as intellectually. We subscribe to W.B. Yeats’ words that "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." That overarching principle runs deep at Walhampton.

We believe, with a passion, that a child's school days should be some of the happiest of their lives. That is why we work so hard to ensure every child looks back at their time here.

All schools have a set of aims on which the school is built and to which it aspires.

Walhampton aims, as a coeducational day and boarding school, too:

• Promote the importance of moral, spiritual, and social values, inspired by the school's underlying Christian ethos.
• Be a dynamic school in which teaching is exemplary and pupils develop both the discipline of study and the joy of learning.
• Develop the academic, creative, and sporting talents of each child, ensuring a broad and balanced education of the whole person.
• Be a distinctly happy school to which children and adults feel a deep loyalty - a place in which children can laugh, feel safe and enjoy being children.
• Inspire in every child a love of nature and the outdoors.
• Be an outward-looking school, building links with parents and the local community, as well as celebrating cultures from around the world.
• Develop in every child a strength of character so they leave Walhampton as confident, capable, compassionate, and independent-minded young people.

This set of aims provides our school with a distinctive identity and a strong sense of direction. It captures the essence of who we are and what we stand for and can be summed up in seven words:

Values, Learning, Breadth, Joy, Outdoors, Community, and Character.

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