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Every good school is unique, a particular blend of purpose, practice, people and tradition. The uniqueness of Ridgeway College is grounded, we think, on these foundations:
We are genuinely and of set purpose multi-cultural.
We believe in and seek to preserve and develop a relationship between staff and students and among students themselves which combines respect and caring with a comfortable ease of communication and trust. We like and enjoy each other.
We see each other as individuals with different strengths and different needs, different ways of contributing, different paths to different forms of success. But we know that, in recognising the individuality of each one of us, we need also to recognise the reality and importance of the different communities which have formed and nurtured us.
We believe that no one is too young or too special, too limited or too talented, too deprived or too privileged, to take responsibility for themselves, for their work and behaviour, for their relationships, for their own lives.
We believe that we have a responsibility towards our social and our physical environments which demands active engagement with the needs of both. We have a particular commitment to the conservation, in these times of the gravest of threats to its beauty, its diversity and its value and necessity for the well-being and, indeed, the preservation of our species, of our planet.
We believe that the best learning is encouraged and stimulated by an atmosphere of enjoyment and interest. We know that much of the best learning takes place outside of classes and we seek to provide the kind of ethos and experience that provides it.
We recognise that academic achievement is of great importance and value and we support each student in striving to do as well as possible. Our record so far shows that we have done this very successfully. But we do not judge people by how academically successful they are.
We believe that the constantly changing nature of today’s world makes adaptability as important as tradition and we actively seek to find and develop new ways of teaching and learning, new ways of experiencing and knowing and coping with and contributing to the world we live in.
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