SURBITON HIGH SCHOOL

Social Skills

Pupils’ social skills are highly developed. They demonstrate excellent social awareness and their interaction with others is positive, honest and open. This is due to the strong culture of community and expectation of collaboration which exist throughout the school in response to the school’s aims.

The school fully meets its aim to create a sense of community where pupils are sensitive to the needs of others. Pupils from both senior and prep schools talk positively about the various roles for them within the school that enable them to support their peers.

Inspection evidence shows that pupils develop into considerate and empathetic young people.

Co-curricular Achievements

A large majority of pupils, including those in the prep schools, achieve excellent and notable team and individual success in sporting, musical, artistic and cultural arenas.

Health & Wellbeing

They are aware of the need for a healthy diet and exercise and make choices that will actively support them to achieve this.

Pupils value all the opportunities in the PSHE curriculum to reflect on and demonstrate their awareness of mental health issues.

They feel positive that they know how to access support for themselves, their peers and everyone in their school community.

Pupils achieve national success in a wide range of extra-curricular and sporting activities.

Regular and frequent participation in the wide range of co-curricular activities contributes significantly to the development of pupils’ strong belief in their own abilities.

Achievements outside the curriculum include exceptional success in competitions at national level in Mathematics Olympiads and challenges, Science Olympiads and instrumental and singing examinations.

In discussions, pupils commented on the involvement of many pupils in the highly popular and successful school musical and drama productions. They referred to both these and participation in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme (DofE) as particular strengths of the school.

A number of pupils play internationally across a wide variety of sports.