Lancing College is a co-educational boarding and day school for 13 to 18-year-olds. Our pupils come to Lancing from across the South East, from London and from around the world. They become part of a caring community with stretching horizons and ambitious goals. We build on pupils' strengths and ensure every child achieves their full potential.
In March 2017, ISI inspectors rated Lancing College as excellent for the quality of the pupils' academic and other achievements and excellent for the quality of the pupils' personal development.
This result is a testament to our staff at the College and our amazing pupils. We are committed to building on this excellence in everything that we do.
We take our role in teaching, guiding, and caring for our pupils very seriously working in collaboration with parents, our staff, and our pupils, we aspire to continually enhance the amazing experience of a Lancing education.
Our unique strength is in encouraging individual growth in our pupils, both emotionally and intellectually.
Ethos
Lancing College is a Christian foundation in the Anglican tradition. The College, set in the outstanding countryside and housed in fine buildings, educates boys and girls to develop a love of learning and to reach their full potential, enriched by the arts and physical activities. It prepares young men and women of vision and integrity who will be of service to their fellow human beings.
Aims
- To preserve and promote the Christian values which lie at the heart of the foundation of the College.
- To provide an education for boys and girls aged 13 to 18 which inspires a desire for excellence and which enables them to develop independent, searching minds and to realize their full academic potential.
- To prepare boys and girls thoroughly for university and other tertiary studies so that they derive the maximum benefit from their continuing education.
- To maintain the boarding ethos and structure of the College to the benefit of all pupils – both day and boarding.
- To assist boys and girls in their journey from childhood to adulthood, giving appropriate guidance and responsibilities and preparing them for their departure into an adult world.
- To ensure, as far as possible, that the year's children spend at Lancing are happy and fulfilling ones.
- To maintain a close partnership with parents in guiding and caring for their children.
- To give each child the opportunity to experience a wide variety of activities that are not part of the examined curriculum and to encourage an interest in sport, music, drama, community service, and other pursuits through the provision of excellent facilities and supervision.
- To provide a safe, welcoming, supportive, and tolerant environment in which each pupil feels valued as an individual and, in turn, learns the importance of tolerance and consideration towards others.
- To help each child to realize the importance of contributing to the community, both inside the College and beyond and to ensure that the wider community benefits from the existence of the College.
- To facilitate entry, where possible, to the College for children from underprivileged backgrounds with the potential to benefit from a Lancing education.
- To work constantly towards the improvement and good maintenance of the College facilities and to exercise care, responsible stewardship of the College grounds.
- To appoint talented staff who enjoy the responsibility of fulfilling these aims and to assist them in their professional development.
