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Aim High at Sydenham School
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Sydenham School is a successful, diverse and inclusive girls’ community secondary school with a co-educational sixth form, established in 1917. It provides a nurturing environment for students to feel safe, confident, happy and achieve academic excellence.
Their motto 'Aim High' reflects the commitment to instilling the Sydenham Characteristics of ambition, determination and respect. They encourage ambitious goal-setting, exploration of passions, resilience-building, self-respect, respect for others and developing empathy. Students are equipped with the grit to persist through challenges and reach desired outcomes.
The curriculum is designed to not only fulfil the requirements of the national curriculum but also go beyond it. This approach aims to instil a genuine passion for learning among students.
Their teachers believe that by ensuring students enjoy learning, they will also want to dig deeper, explore further and develop their own interests and motivation to learn more. The school celebrates each subject’s discipline, its creativity, the use of active learning, problem solving and collaboration in the classroom so that students know more, remember more, become more confident and engaged.
As an inclusive school that is proud of the results of all students, Sydenham believes that every student can achieve highly regardless of their starting points.