Welcome from the head Gavin Franklin
About Amesbury
From my very first visit here, I recognised that there is something special about this school, with its illustrious history and wonderfully warm and welcoming atmosphere – a school that genuinely combines the importance of traditional values with a modern, dynamic and forward thinking approach to education.
We firmly believe that children who are happy and inspired, will succeed. The exceptional pastoral care and nurturing environment at Amesbury helps to foster the individual strengths of every child and we are proud of our pioneer status in mental health and wellbeing.
However, at Amesbury, education is so much more than just what is learned in the classroom. Our aim is to lay strong foundations, and teach our pupils vital life skills that will help them to succeed throughout their life.
All the children are encouraged to engage in a wide array of activities, with the performing and visual arts a huge strength of the school, and they each get the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports, helping them to learn the importance of teamwork, resilience, and how to win and lose graciously. Pupils are encouraged to try new experiences and take a few risks, which helps them to build their self-confidence, ignite passions and make lifelong friends.
We instill strong values in every child, and encourage them to be well-mannered, considerate and kind. By the time our pupils move on to their senior school they are confident, motivated young adults, well prepared to thrive and deal with the excitements and challenges that lie ahead.
School Aims
We want every child thoroughly to enjoy his or her time at school; to feel valued as an individual, in an
environment where their talents can prosper so that when the time comes to leave Amesbury, each child will do so with confidence high, skills sharpened and personalities rounded. Amesbury is academically ambitious, whilst taking care to maintain and nurture emotional resilience and strength. More specifically we aim to:
• Develop in every child the necessary skills, aptitudes and abilities to enable him/her to move on to senior
school and beyond as an emotionally resilient, autonomous learner.
• Develop a caring community within the school by encouraging commitment, courtesy, co-operation,
tolerance and compassion towards one another whilst understanding that each individual is a member of a wider community.
• Promote and nurture a close relationship between home and school in the partnership of education.
• Provide pupils with a model of how an excellent organisation is run, one in which there is a culture of high
achievement, a willingness to adapt and a propensity for innovation.
• To create the circumstances in which all members of staff have the opportunity for personal development and
feel able to make the fullest of contributions to school life.
• Fulfil our social and environmental responsibilities to society.
Amesbury has been described as “magical” for the special energy and feeling that emanates throughout the classrooms, corridors and playing fields.
We encourage you to come and visit us, so that you can see for yourself what makes Amesbury such an outstanding school.