Parents Handbook

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PARENTS ’ HANDBOOK

Welcome to Teddies! We have put together this Handbook for St Edward’s (or Teddies as we are affectionately known) to help those new to the School with basic information about how things work. We have 13 boarding houses, several academic departments and a host of choices in sport and co-curricular activities, so it is by no means

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comprehensive but will, we hope, be a useful starting point before your children can tell you how everything works. We are so grateful to the parents in the international parents’ forum for their work which prompted us to write this guide. It started as a resource for overseas parents but it quickly became apparent that it would be of use much more widely. However, as a result, there is a specific section on issues which will probably be of interest mostly to international parents. We hope that this Handbook will help you to fill out the joining forms. Please fill in the forms as fully and promptly as you can. We recognise that there are lots of forms but all the information is really important. Thank you in advance for providing it!

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Our Values St Edward’s was founded on Christian principles, which continue to provide the foundation for our values and which, through Chapel, remain central to the life of the School. Integrity: the value of honesty to ourselves and to each other • we seek to earn and to deserve the trust of others, by acting rightly and justly; • we take responsibility for our words and actions; we acknowledge our mistakes and we learn from them; Kindness: the value of love • we feel and show compassion for others, always listening and seeking always to understand; • we value, respect and include others without regard for differences; • we treat others as we would have them treat us; Courage: truthfulness to our values at the testing point • we stand up for what we believe to be right, speaking up for ourselves and for others; • we seek to bring out the best in others; • we persevere with resilience, with forgiveness and with patience.