Queen Victoria School is dedicated to preparing today’s youth to make a positive difference in their world.
By fostering their intellectual, scholastic, physical and emotional development, the school seeks to inspire and motivate them to:
• strive for excellence;
• seek truth;
• live honorably;
• act responsibly; and
• help others.
Core Beliefs:
Queen Victoria School believes...
1. Our British tradition builds a strong scholastic foundation and a sense of civic and social cooperation needed into today’s global world
2. Our teachers should foster a lifelong love of learning and intellectual growth and should inspire students to develop the same.
3. The development and practice of leadership and citizenship skills are critically important.
4. Every individual should be treated with dignity.
5. Racial, ethnic, religious, and economic diversity enhances our school community.
6. Graduates should be skillful, as individuals and in groups, at setting and achieving clear goals and at developing strategies to solve problems.
7. Students learn in different ways, have different ways of demonstrating abilities, and require a variety of instructional approaches and assessment strategies in order to thrive.
8. Graduates should be people of compassion and moral courage.
9. Everyone has a responsibility to be a positive role model.
10. A progressive British style learning environment enhances the student’s comfort and confidence in exploring a range of interests and in developing competencies.
11. Students are active and need opportunities to channel their energies in constructive ways.
12. Learners should be challenged and encouraged to be skilled readers, writers, speakers, and listeners.
13. Higher order thinking skills are enhanced by a program which emphasizes discovery and experiential learning.
14. Preparing our students for life beyond the educational field is priority one.
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