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We ask ourselves: What's best for our students? How can we help them become individuals that make a difference? In our view, one of the most important things is that we encourage a climate of openness and awareness, based on mutual respect. From the Prep School onwards, we foster an academic boldness and encourage curiosity and creativity - an insistence on how to think, not what to think. This is at the very heart of the RGS ethos.

Our 500-year tradition and heritage, impressive as it is, is nothing if not a catapult for innovation and modern-mindedness. In this forward thinking climate, attitudes and passions are formed that suit the future. To foster these fully, we have all the facilities you would expect from a school of our nature, and many more that are unexpected

Our students, with the world's finest libraries in their pockets, require the skills to interrogate data, the ability to listen and the humility to change minds, including their own. They face a lifetime of learning and jobs not yet invented. To prepare them, we lead by example; staying true to our values, collaborating with others, innovating and striving always to be the very best we can be.

"The growing complexity of the global challenges we face will need future generations to work together for solutions - across national borders and the potential barriers of religion, culture and language" Dr JM Cox, Headmaster

Life Skills

Our learning habits are designed to help students reach their full potential throughout their time at school, in higher education and beyond. The emotional resilience and positive sense of wellbeing they develop help to determine success throughout their lives. We want our students to respond positively to challenges and to persist when they have setbacks.

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RGS Guildford is a leading day school for children from 3 to 18. Our pupils go on from RGS Prep to study at and regularly gain scholarships for some of the area's most prestigious schools. At RGS Guildford we are proud to be consistently among the UK's leading schools, based on our students' performance in public exams.

Yet, at RGS Guildford, our education goes beyond just academic grades. We're committed to providing every student with countless opportunities to nurture their interests and passions outside of the classroom, ensuring they continue to thrive when they move on to university and their future careers.

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• Inclusivity; We inherently believe in establishing a culture of diversity and acceptance, and in educating our students in a welcoming community where each individual is valued and enjoys a deep sense of belonging.
• Scholarship; We encourage intellectual curiosity, independence, creativity, innovation and habits of learning within a scholarly community through inspirational specialist teachers who stretch the students' minds and develop a lifelong love of learning.
• Integrity; We promote the development of self-discipline, responsibility, a personal moral code, and cultivate an ethos where qualities of decency, honesty, courtesy, humility and good humour are celebrated.
• Respect; We nurture an atmosphere of mutual respect between all members of our community, and foster self-respect and self-esteem in terms of physical health, emotional maturity and personal wellbeing, while establishing lasting friendships in a positive, happy environment.
• Courage; We develop leadership, teamwork, resilience and life skills through a diverse range of activities where all students, regardless of their talents and attributes, are encouraged to challenge themselves, take appropriate risks and work hard to fulfil their potential.
• Collaboration; We work closely with others for mutual enrichment, and encourage a spirit of generosity and service, a sense of perspective, and a firm belief that we can work in partnership with others, locally and internationally, to make a difference