Studley High School is a comprehensive school where a unique partnership exists between staff, parents, pupils and our wider community. We are proud of our school and the education and opportunities we offer. We promote excellence in all that we do so that everyone at Studley High school can support the school aims.
- We believe in high expectations for all members of the school community.
- We believe students should develop an enthusiasm for learning and that they should willingly seek to gain knowledge and understanding about the world around them.
- We believe students should be provided with the guidance, information and resources necessary to help them learn.
- We believe it is our duty to teach students the skills necessary for effective and efficient learning.
- We believe that students should develop a sense of pride in themselves and their school, so that they always aim to achieve the highest possible standards of work in all subjects.
- We believe that we should create an environment that fosters the personal qualities, skills and self-confidence necessary for success in their chosen career and personal life.
- We believe in developing high levels of self-esteem, self-confidence and resilience in our students.
- We believe that students should develop a sense of respect for themselves, other individuals and their environment.
- We believe in promoting high levels of wellbeing for all.
- We believe in demonstrating the Studley Values in the students’ day to day experience.
- We believe students can accept responsibility for their own behaviour.
- We believe in restorative interventions that support students, reflecting on decisions they have made and helps develop effective character and learning habits.
- We believe that behaviour and conduct that goes ‘above and beyond’ should be acknowledged and rewarded.
- We believe every student can meet our expectations.
- We celebrate when students demonstrated evidence of the following key values: independence, resilience, aspiration, creativity, adaptability, charity, selflessness and maturity.
We believe that these aims are more likely to be achieved if there is togetherness/partnership between the school, the students and the parents based on mutual trust, respect and understanding.
Studley Values – Our Culture
Here at Studley High School our school community has something which is hard to define…it’s just too special. Our students are fantastic young people and the support we receive from families and the wider community helps us to provide the best we can for our students.
Our ethos is called ‘The Studley DNA’ and encompasses what it means to be a part of the Studley community. Just like human genetics, we feel that there are inherent qualities that make a ‘Studley student’. The first strand of DNA is a set of values that we will strive to live by each and every day and we will aim to demonstrate these in everything we do:
- Kindness
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Aspirational
- Resilient
- Independence
- Creativity
Our aim is to make sure that we are a community of good people and that students leave us, like many who have left us already, as the best possible version of themselves. These values will be actively promoted across the curriculum and will underpin rewards and sanctions, so that students live and breathe these expectations every day.
As teachers, we have a huge responsibility – we are sculpting future leaders, thinkers and collaborators. As well as our values, we also want students to leave us with a second strand of DNA: skills…
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Reflective
- Adaptability
- Leadership
- Critical Thinking
- Study skills
We want our students to have a world full of opportunities open to them, and we think that these skills will help them to unlock their true potential. Of course, students’ GCSE grades are important, but it’s well understood that employers are far more impressed by the range of skills an applicant can demonstrate. Throughout their time at Studley, students will be explicitly taught how to develop these skills and will be given opportunities, both inside and outside the classroom, to demonstrate these.
We already offer an impressive 72 extracurricular opportunities, but we want to continue developing this, finding even more ways of engaging our students and developing their potential whilst peeling them away from their screens and, most importantly, making memories!