Founding Principles

1. To enable all children to flourish in a stimulating, caring international environment.

2. To provide an exciting educational setting based on mutual respect and care for others.

3. To provide internationally mobile families with an excellent stable educational philosophy.

Rationale

Cambridge International School provides education for children aged three to sixteen. Our school welcomes children from every country. We offer a broad and enriching curriculum,striving to achieve the highest educational standards in a happy, caring and supportive environment. A particular feature of the school is our commitment to providing an unpressurisedlearning environment based around a child’s readiness to learn.

Our aim is to prepare pupils for their future as responsible, confident, kind, hardworking, compassionate people.

We are committed to:

• Providing a high quality international educational programme

• Providing a safe, supportive educational environment where children feel secure and welcome

• Challenging students to realise their potential

• Appreciating and celebrating cultural diversity

• Encouraging independent thinkers who are open to new ideas

• Promoting open and effective communication with all members of the school community

• Promoting active involvement in the school, local and global communities

• Early exposure and effective teaching of other languages (beginning in our nursery)

• Striving for continuous improvement

• Maintaining international diversity in the student body and staff.

We encourage the following features in our school:

• pupils and staff showing responsible behaviour and consideration towards each other
• working hard and with enthusiasm to achieve the highest standards
• listening carefully and speaking articulately
• commitment to helping each other
• understanding the cultures and beliefs of all our students
• valuing and debating one’s own opinions and the opinions of others in a tolerant, understanding way
• an underlying commitment to strong partnership between home and school, providing opportunities for parental involvement in support of the school and their own child’s education

The education we provide at the Cambridge International School is a dynamic alternative to national systems of education. Our intention is to provide a school where all children, regardless of family background,country of origin, intellectual levels and social class are helped to flourish in a stimulating international environment. While we anticipate a stable section of British pupils who will attend the school for many years,it is also our intention to provide internationally mobile families with an excellent stable educational philosophy. Such children may only be with us for only one year and our adoption of international curricula ensuresthat what we teach the children is relevant to them.

We encourage a balance between the very best of different academic approaches blended with our unique understanding of what we believe can work for children with a range of experiences, abilities and cultures.

Our international approach exists in many dimensions from staffing and pupil range, through our curriculum and in the day to day life of our classrooms. We are an international community with a significant percentage of our pupils from outside the UK. It is a main intention of our School that we nurture respect, intercultural understanding and a desire to learn more about the countries and traditions of our peers.

We are extremely proud of our school and we hope that you too will take pride in being part of it.