b'03COMMUNITYAN ELLESMERE EDUCATION IS A PREPARATION FOR LIVING ADULT LIFE SUCCESSFULLY, CONSIDERATELY AND WITH A SENSE OF PERSONAL FULFILMENT. ELLESMERE COLLEGEVALUES INDIVIDUALS.Creating the conditionsHow do we foster such a spirit?We do it by workingWe have systems and structures and staffing levels,hard to make every student feel safe, understoodof course.We have monitoring and reporting and in which all our studentsand valued.appraisal. Information is rapidly shared.And welisten.Students have their say in the school council.can be successful is a veryKnowing what you do about schools, you understandParents tell us we respond promptly to their concerns. exact science. Success isthat individuality can thrive only in the most rigorouslyOfsted inspectors like the way we do things. administered and attentive community.Our students fuelled by optimism, aare at a stage in their growing up when they canAbove all, we have a powerful culture of kindness make life difficult for themselves and for others, and friendship.We have values which are preached disposition to believe that,so it is crucially necessary for us to spot a problemin Chapel and pervade everything that happens here. with enterprise and hardearly and nip it in the bud.Our students are also atEveryone is valued equally; day students treated a stage when they unexpectedly reveal a talent noexactly the same as boarders. work, our best shots willone ever knew they had.Ellesmere is a member of the Woodard Schools,be rewarded.Again, we need to be there for them at once, to urgea community of 19 independent schools in the UK.them on and celebrate achievement.There are vital lessons to be learned from both failure and success.'