“Birkenhead School seeks to provide an open and happy community in which endeavour and achievement flourish. It aims to enable pupils to realise their potential and develop a love of learning. Pupils achieve highly across the wide range of academic and extracurricular opportunities available to them … Pupils achieve highly in a range of creative and physical pursuits and are supported in their achievements by the wide-ranging extra-curricular programme … They are enthusiastic and ambitious learners, with a tangible desire to succeed. Pupils demonstrate high levels of confidence, self-discipline and resilience. The school’s ethos of encouragement and praise enables pupils to have the confidence to try something without fear of failure.”