| Character & Wellbeing |
We will cultivate resilient, ethical, and socially aware leaders, embedding character and wellbeing across all aspects of school life.
- Establish the SSG Framework for Character & Wellbeing Education as a shared values and character-development model across the schools, seeking ACE accreditation.
- Embed Character and Wellbeing Education across all areas of school life including academic, co-curricular, boarding, enrichment and social programmes, with emphasis on integrity, empathy, critical thinking, creativity, resilience, and service.
- Strengthen pastoral systems to support holistic wellbeing, emotional literacy, and belonging for all, including SEND, neurodiverse, and culturally diverse students.
- Leverage full-boarding and tutor/mentoring programmes to foster leadership, adaptability, teamwork, empathy, grit, and self-awareness.
- Provide structured leadership opportunities through pupil-led initiatives, service programmes, and cross-school collaborations via SYT.
- Foster a culture where wellbeing and character are modelled, celebrated, and reinforced, engaging pupils, staff, and parents to embed our shared values across the SSG community.
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| Academics & Futures |
We will deliver personalised, high-quality learning experiences that equip pupils with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to thrive in a complex, rapidly changing world.
- Offer personalised academic pathways supported by high-quality tutoring, mentoring, and coaching, ensuring stretch, inclusion, and success for every pupil.
- Sustain academic rigour while fostering interdisciplinary, applied, and inquiry-based learning that builds curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, and communication.
- Integrate AI fluency, digital literacy, and ethical technological understanding as applied skills across the curriculum.
- Expand real-world learning through interdisciplinary projects, expert-led challenges, internships, career-readiness programmes, and alumni/external partnerships.
- Build strategic academic collaborations with universities, research institutions, and global experts to enrich learning and broaden pathways.
- Launch Sherborne’s Sixth Form of the Future, extending the distinctive SYT model (co-education, but not as you know it), combining academic rigour, ethical leadership, entrepreneurship, sustainability, AI/digital literacy, micro-credentials, and global citizenship pathways.
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| Innovation & Entrepreneurship |
We will embed creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and future-ready skills across all years as a core element of our Transformative Education.
- Establish a progressive SSG Entrepreneurship Programme, cultivating creativity, initiative, problem-solving, ethical decision-making, and leadership from Junior through Senior years.
- Incubate pupil ventures, host hackathons, innovation challenges, and experiential projects across arts, sports, music, and technology.
- Partner with entrepreneurs, alumni, and industry experts to provide mentorship and real-world business experiences.
- Develop pre-graduate pathways, micro-apprenticeships, certifications, and workplace shadowing for employability skills.
- Launch the Turing Centre for Innovation & Future-Readiness as a hub for AI education, tech incubation, creative labs, and cross-school collaboration.
- Deliver a Sherborne-wide AI and technology ecosystem, spanning AI literacy for all pupils, applied learning, neurodiverse pathways, tertiary study opportunities with partner universities, and public engagement through immersive Turing tourism and conferences.
- Integrate ethical and sustainable innovation principles across programmes, linking entrepreneurship with social responsibility.
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| Partnership & Community |
We will cultivate dynamic local, national, and international networks that empower pupils to co-create transformative projects with tangible impact.
- Provide meaningful leadership, service, and volunteering opportunities that foster empathy, responsibility, and measurable community impact.
- Leverage SYT, alumni, Friends of Sherborne, and global partnerships to connect pupils with mentorship, experiences, and professional networks.
- Collaborate with universities, businesses, charities, and NGOs for cross-cultural exchanges, apprenticeships, and real-world problem-solving.
- Embed the Separate Yet Together ethos, blending the individuality of each school with the benefits of collaboration, shared identity, and co-created initiatives.
- Promote diversity, inclusion, and ethical awareness in all community engagement.
- Use the Sixth Form of the Future and Turing Centre as hubs for interdisciplinary, co-created ventures and global partnerships.
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| Sustainability & Humanity |
We will equip pupils to become ethical, environmentally conscious, and globally responsible leaders.
- Integrate sustainability, ethics, and global citizenship across academic, co-curricular, and enrichment programmes.
- Promote pupil-led initiatives, including rewilding, regenerative campus projects, SYT eco councils, and social-impact activities.
- Use the campus and Turing Centre as living laboratories for sustainability, ethical innovation, and interdisciplinary problem-solving.
- Foster empathy, cultural understanding, and awareness of global inequities through experiential learning, social action, and ethical decision-making.
- Encourage interdisciplinary research and action connecting environmental, social, and economic dimensions for evidence-based, responsible leadership.
- Align school initiatives with Group environmental goals, embedding staff and governors as partners in culture and strategy.
- Connect sustainability with innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership, creating coherent pathways from pupil projects to Sixth Form and Turing Centre programmes.
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