Our students are....

...Aware Of Their Responsibilities

Our objective

Our school aims to strengthen its students with a sense of the responsibility that comes with an education at Shrewsbury International School; we aim to encourage ethical integrity, environmental awareness and compassion, and the purposefulness to act to promote these values.

Our students

1. 1.Are given opportunities to lead commensurate with their age and experience;
   

2. 2.Have their responsibilities reinforced in classroom lessons, PHSE, assemblies and “You-Time!” and are provided with plentiful opportunities to act in support of these values;
   

3. 3.Are helped to understand the school’s charitable philosophy and actions and encouraged to participate fully in the work of the Charity Committee;
   

4. 4.Contribute to the well-being of the community in which the school operates.
   

Our teachers

1. 1.Take opportunities in their classroom lessons and in their planning and preparation to make students aware of their responsibilities;
   

2. 2.Promote discussion of ethics, integrity, the environment and giving;
   

3. 3.Promote these values in the way in which they support the school’s extra-curricular and charitable programmes;
   

4. 4.Seek to forge strong links with the local community.
   

Our parents

1. 1.encourage their children to see school in its full breadth;
   

2. 2.support the school activities which promote the charitable dimension of the school;
   

3. 3.support through discussion and action an approach to life which has integrity and responsibility at its heart;
   

4. 4.help their children understand how their family life promotes environmental awareness.
   

Our measurements

1. 1.A report on the Carbon Footprint and Environmental Health of the school (including targets) is presented annually to The Board of Governors by The Director of Business Services;
   

2. 2.A report on the Charitable Contribution of the school is presented annually to The Board of Governors by The Chairman of the Charity Committee;
   

3. 3.The Performance Management System will encourage teachers to promote ethical integrity, environmental awareness and compassion in delivery of lessons, planning and preparation and “You-Time!” activities.