Welcome to St John’s, where every child is known, challenged, and inspired to forge their own path.
At St John’s, we provide the space to grow and the confidence to succeed. By integrating our exceptional natural environment with a bespoke academic journey, we nurture the individual character and ‘spark’ of every child empowering them to achieve excellence and make ambitious choices for their future.
To know every child as an individual, providing a nurturing and bespoke educational journey that fosters self-confidence and enables every pupil to pursue academic excellence and personal aspirations.
To integrate our exceptional natural surroundings into the heart of the curriculum, using our extensive site to build resilience, support wellbeing, and ignite a lifelong sense of curiosity through outdoor exploration and play.
To maintain a rigorous focus on academic excellence, equipping pupils with a deep foundation of knowledge and a genuine joy for learning that prepares them for future scholarships and high-reaching success.
To offer a broad and diverse range of opportunities that empower pupils and their families to make confident, informed decisions regarding senior school transitions, ensuring every child finds the right destination for their unique future.
To cultivate an environment where kindness, integrity, and good manners are paramount, developing well-rounded individuals with the “spark” and character required to thrive in the modern world.
The school motto, “vitam impendere vero” be true to yourself, stands behind St John’s values.
We place kindness, confidence and character at the heart of the school, developing children who combine strong values and good manners with the confidence and spark to thrive.
We know every child as an individual, nurturing and guiding them along a personalised pathway that supports their aspirations and enables them to grow in confidence, achieve academically and flourish.
Our exceptional, and surprisingly extensive site and natural surroundings are an integral part of our school curriculum, giving children the space to explore, play and learn, and empowering their curiosity, resilience and wellbeing.
Through a strong focus on academic excellence, we give every child the knowledge, confidence and skills to embrace a lasting love and joy of learning and shape an aspirational future.
We provide breadth and choice throughout school life, preparing every child, and their family, with the confidence and independence to make informed, aspirational decisions about the right senior school destination for their unique future.
The Language of Learning is designed to help our pupils grow into well-rounded, happy, compassionate, and successful young people. Each of our core values is explored in depth, encouraging pupils to recognise, reflect upon, and apply these qualities both inside and outside the classroom. We believe that by embedding our values in daily school life, we not only support academic excellence but also nurture character, confidence, and a lifelong love of learning. Respect, honesty, fairness, and self-control are central to everything we do and a Language of Learning sits at the heart of teaching and learning across our school.
