The right of every child to the best education possible underpins my welcome to you. At S. Peter’s, we strive to be a very good comprehensive school responding to continuing change in education and society. We openly accept the challenge of blending well tried and tested, and indeed very successful teaching and learning methods, with innovative and exciting strategies for the future. Education is now highly technical, and teaching a demanding profession. We offer our students the best opportunities and facilities to support their learning needs.
We will work hard for your children, and need your strong support if success is to be achieved .
At S. Peter’s we want students to develop and mature as individuals. To do this requires compliance with some very basic and common sense rules that allow for the whole school community to thrive. I am well aware of the importance of school to its students, as a place of stability, as the creator and enabler of opportunity, and as a place for learning. As a school, we are not afraid to declare our belief in values such as honesty, tolerance and respect and to talk about them openly within the context of the Christian Gospel. Equally, school should be an enjoyable and stimulating experience for all, and we all have responsibilities to ensure that this is the case – students and teachers alike .
I invite you to:
- Contribute to the success of your child. The school's partnership with parents is the most important contributing factor in our students' development.
- Look at our students' attendance rates that are recognised and celebrated in the school and the City.
- Compare our examination successes, enabling our students to move on to Further and Higher Education opportunities, specialised training and employment.
- Look at the strength of our Sixth Form now numbering over 250 students. Most are students who have 'grown' through the Lower and Upper School and choose to remain in an environment that continues to stimulate and encourage them to achieve the best they can.
- View our facilities that are constantly being improved, upgraded and developed to suit the needs of our teaching and learning programmes.
- Share our commitment to making learning fun, challenging and life-long through providing a host of extra-curricular activities, offered for enjoyment and personal development.
- Share our values. We encourage all students to have respect for each other, for the wider community and, most importantly, to have a self-respect founded in a vision for the future, all based within our Christian foundation. At S. Peter's, we offer a stable, sensitive and understanding atmosphere in which friendships can flourish and students are happy and secure.