Our Aims and Ethos

We pride ourselves on providing an exceptional, all-round education. We believe that every child can succeed when given the right opportunities, encouragement, self-motivation and practice.

Westbourne House is fully committed to:
  • supporting and developing each child as an individual by giving them freedom of intellectual, artistic and physical expression, and celebrating their progress and contribution to the life of the school, its community and beyond.
  • providing a broad, exciting and truly inclusive curriculum that delivers countless opportunities at all levels to all children.  Our approach encourages every child to make the most of the experience so they discover their strengths and develop self-knowledge, belief, humility and an adventurous attitude.  
  • fostering the skills and attitudes that will enable pupils to succeed at school as well as in life
  • being a joyful, happy place for children to grow up, nurtured by a community with strong values of kindness, concern for others and respect for individuality and difference within our community and in the wider world.
  • providing pastoral care that supports children’s physical and mental health, contributes to wellbeing and emotional development and gives children the security they need to be happy and their best.

Boarding
Westbourne House is committed to providing a happy boarding environment which is safe, supportive and fun so that the boarders can develop into caring, responsible, self-reliant and dependable individuals.  

High Performance Learning
Our teachers, across every subject, work under the HPL philosophy.  As a school we believe that all children can progress strongly and reach the top.  By adopting HPL, we are at the cutting edge of educational thought and are giving all our pupils the tools they need to succeed.

Westbourne Way
As a school we follow The Westbourne Way, which is a strong, moral code centred on kindness, respect and mutual support, which was devised by our pupils to map out the way our community wants to interact and grow together. 
 

young and old play together
golf
Reading in library with Nancy
sport
Beach school
playing cricket
in science labs
acting on stage