Caldicott is a highly ambitious yet caring school where the curriculum inspires both boys and the excellent teachers to enjoy learning and to work collaboratively to make the community, and hopefully the world, a better place.

When boys leave Caldicott, they will continue to flourish at their new school and enrich the lives of all those they encounter.

In order for this to happen, we need to ensure that when they are at Caldicott, we are instilling in them, via our many opportunities in and outside the classroom, our values of humour, compassion, courage, perseverance and integrity.

Right from 1st Form (Year 3), our youngest boys are introduced to Critical Thinking where they develop the patience to listen to others and consider questions that don’t have a single, ‘correct’ answer. They learn to view the world from another person’s perspective. As the boys make progress through the different stages, this grounding in cognitive, social and digital literacy helps boys appreciate the fact that the knowledge they acquire in the various subjects is merely a vehicle to help link the many skills that they need to be a better global citizen. We hope that this journey will also expose them to the importance of having a passion for something and sharing it with others.

Subjects like Latin and Greek are vital to the Caldicott journey because they afford boys the opportunity to be logical and to appreciate the deeper-rooted value that these forgotten languages hold.

Debating, Creative Thinking, Coding and Sport, to name a few, enhance our provision and further equip the boys for life beyond Caldicott, a life where they need to be collaborative, digitally savvy and emotionally intelligent.

These are all very ambitious ideas, but Caldicott was built to inspire victory: per victoriam ad gloriam (through victory to glory) and our academic journey strives to live up to our motto.

Pupils have excellent attitudes towards learning, nurtured by high expectations. They are not afraid to take risks and get things wrong, as they know that this is part of the learning process. Pupils try hard as they are extremely ambitious and motivated to do well, and they delight in theirs and others' successes.

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