“The school promotes an educational culture that sees the pursuit of high academic standards as equally balanced with the value of pupils engaging in a wide range of extracurricular pursuits and personal development opportunities ... Pupils reach excellent levels of attainment … [and] make excellent progress … Pupils enjoy high levels of success in the creative arts, music, drama and sport ... are confident decision-makers and relish the opportunities to direct their own learning … Pupils come from a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds and many of them see this diversity as a strength of the school.”