About Us
Welcome
Goldwyn School is a truly inspiring place where lives are transformed through an ambitious and carefully designed curriculum. We place equal importance on nurturing social and emotional development and achieving strong academic outcomes, ensuring every student is supported to grow in confidence, resilience, and independence. With the highest aspirations for all, we are committed to enabling each young person to realise their full potential and succeed in all aspects of their lives.
Goldwyn School operates as one cohesive school across four key sites, allowing us to thoughtfully adapt our environments and provision to meet the diverse needs of our students. Our vision, values, and Whole Child Curriculum are consistently embedded across every site through a clear “golden thread,” ensuring a shared approach and high expectations for all. This unified ethos creates a strong sense of belonging, with staff working together as one team to deliver a pioneering, inclusive curriculum for students with SEMH needs.
Our school community vision is
“Aspire ∙ Empower ∙ Achieve”
We ASPIRE for our students to be the best they can be by providing a ‘whole child education’ where their talents are nurtured and they are provided with opportunities to flourish. We aspire for them when they see barriers and cannot aspire for themselves. We aspire for our staff to be the best they can be, investing in their well-being, professional development and access to external networks.
We EMPOWER each other as a community, recognising and praising excellence and progress in each other. We empower each other to build resilience and overcome barriers. By taking a ‘Growth Mindset approach’ we empower ourselves in a continuous journey of learning.
We ACHIEVE self-development, qualifications and instilling self-confidence to achieve our ambitions, for students moving onto higher education or their chosen career path.
Our core school community values are:
We have defined our core values in a series of statements below. These will remain our constant anchor for the years ahead and at the core of everything we do.
We promote a school community where all members demonstrate:
- Resilience – Resilience to barriers faced in creating independent, innovative and creative minds
- Empathy – Caring for ourselves, for each other, showing respect to each other and building a sense of belonging
- Aiming – Aiming to achieve our potential
- Commitment – Commitment to success, personal development and opportunity
- Heart – Passionate for the difference we can make, to our community, for equality, diversity and inclusion
Our Mission
Goldwyn School creates a challenging & inspiring learning environment, where staff work together to encourage all students to reach their full potential. We celebrate the success of our students and encourage their individual talents and skills. We aim to maximise their access to and engagement with social and educational settings and provide choices and opportunities which are appropriate to their present and future needs and aspirations.
Goldwyn School works towards providing learning opportunities where students experience:
- A sense of personal security
- Enjoyment of learning
- Respect and being valued
- Supportive relationships
- Sharing their lives with positive adult role models
- Clear, flexible boundary setting
- Successful achievement boosting their self –esteem
- Opportunities to obtain academic and/or vocational qualification
- A chance to flourish and exercise personal responsibility
The school uses research and evaluated methods to develop a curriculum that is appropriate and engages our students. Social and Emotional development underpins our philosophy of care and educational delivery and all staff are committed to our ‘Golden Thread’ which outlines our expectations of ourselves as professional, compassionate and positive role models.
Across each Goldwyn inclusive centre of excellence, a considered, planned and holistic curriculum offer is designed to meet the needs of the whole child, ensuring that students’ SEN needs do not create a barrier to learning.
(See Goldwyn Ashford, Goldwyn Folkestone and Goldwyn Plus pages).
All students at Goldwyn will benefit from:
- An outstanding, relevant and inclusive education delivered appropriately.
- Help to build strategies to support individual needs and overcome personal barriers.
- Staff trained to work effectively with students to actively build confidence and resilience and enable personal effectiveness within school and their local communities.
- An environment that places high value on emotional wellbeing, recognising individuals emotional needs and placing emphasis on safeguarding and good mental health.
- Individualised and relevant transition planning.
- Close working relationship between family and external agencies.
- Specialist support from a highly trained and experienced professional staff team.
