The Vision: where we’re going

As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, Notting Hill & Ealing High School empowers girls to become insightful, innovative and courageous women who build successful, meaningful futures for themselves and others through collaboration, creativity and ethical leadership.

Children playing joyfully outside at school. - from Notting Hill & Ealing High School

Our Mission: how we’ll get there

Our mission is to cultivate intellectual curiosity and independent thought through inspirational teaching and learning in a girls-only environment designed to maximise participation, confidence and academic risk-taking; to nurture integrity, ethical discernment and courage through educating the whole person; and to foster creativity and collaboration in all areas of school life.

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Aims: what our Vision and Mission look like in practice

An Inspiring Academic Culture
To provide a rich, challenging, inspiring and evidence-based education that cultivates intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, creativity and a lifelong love of learning, within and beyond the classroom.

Voice and Expression
To empower pupils to express themselves with confidence, clarity, and purpose and develop skills to question, debate and challenge.

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Leadership and Initiative
To nurture ethical leadership and success, encouraging pupils to take initiative, innovate and turn ideas into positive action within the school, across the GDST community and in the wider world.

An Inclusive and Collaborative Community
To build an inclusive and collaborative culture founded on respect, empathy and generosity of spirit, in which we welcome diversity of perspectives, celebrate individuality and enable all pupils to thrive.

Character and Skills for Life
To equip pupils with the skills and character needed to thrive in a complex and ever-changing world, enabling them to become resilient, adaptable, open-minded young women of integrity, courage and confidence.

Our Values:

Integrity, Curiosity, Courage, Ambition, Humanity