plymstock school
Plymouth
I would like to welcome you to Plymstock School. I am honoured and privileged to
have the opportunity to lead such a vibrant, caring and hard working school
community where students, staff and governors remain restless in their pursuit
of excellence with the firm belief that better never stops! They simply aspire
to be the very best they can be. Our mission is to empower young people, through
education, to have the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in life and
make a positive contribution to society. Our inclusive school culture is
underpinned by the core values of compassion, collaboration and creativity. We
believe that key to achieving our mission, is giving every single pupil a broad,
balanced and ambitious academic curriculum, that has knowledge at its heart. The
central place of knowledge acquisition within our curriculum is explicit and we
provide rich and varied contexts for pupils to acquire, develop and apply this
broad knowledge. Powerful knowledge takes a pupil beyond their own experience.
It is knowledge that many will not have access to at home, amongst their friends
or in the communities in which they live. We are all the inheritors of the great
ideas, writings and discoveries of the past and the young people of Plymouth
have a right to learn this knowledge. By learning our curriculum, we know that
our pupils will be provided with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed
in life and make that positive contribution to society. We take great pride that
we continue to support every single pupil to successfully complete their
education at Plymstock School in which it allows them to access the
opportunities and make informed choices to pursue their personal and career
aspirations. This includes continuing with their education, employment or
training. This is also true at the highest academic level and we are delighted
to frequently have pupils gain places at both Oxford and Cambridge University.
