Our Philosophy

The School has two main aims:

The school curriculum should aim to provide opportunities for all pupils to learn and to achieve.
The school curriculum should aim to promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and prepare all pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of life.

These two aims reinforce each other. The personal development of pupils, spiritually, morally, socially and culturally, plays a significant part in their ability to learn and to achieve. Development in both areas is essential to raising standards of attainment for all pupils.

Many children from Rock Hall School have gone on to academic independent secondary schools but the curriculum is not directed solely towards passing examinations. The philosophy of the school ensures that children receive a very broad education; music, environmental science and the creative arts are given a high priority.

We are uniquely individualistic and flexible in our approach to the curriculum. Our broad curriculum is designed to benefit both the very able and the under-achiever We teach the national curriculum but provide additional subjects as well Sometimes we provide a more modular approach to teaching preferring to teach a subject across the curriculum to reinforce its meaning

We feel allowing children, to work at their own pace, means they can receive an education carefully adapted to their requirements. Small teaching groups ensure that children are always encouraged and helped to give of their best.