Donhead Preparatory School is an outstanding, nonselective, coeducational school for 3–11 year old pupils which achieves excellent academic results and an impressive number of senior school scholarships every year. Our sense of purpose and character formation is bespoke and we strive for each child to develop “improvement in living and learning for the greater glory of God and the common good.”
Jesuit Education and Our Mission
A Jesuit Education: The Ethos and Aims
Key to the ethos and aims of Donhead is the Jesuit Pupil Profile (JPP). The JPP proposes eight pairs of virtues that sum up what a pupil in a Jesuit school is growing to be.
Donhead aims
- Grateful for their own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with their gifts, becoming men and women for others.
- Attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.
- Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by their just actions and forgiving words.
- Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future.
- Eloquent and truthful in what they say of themselves, the relations between people, and the world.
- Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways they use their learning for the common good.
- Curious about everything; and active in their engagement with the world, changing what they can for the better.
- Intentional in the way they live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience; and prophetic in the example they set to others.
The quality of the pupils’ academic and other achievements is excellent.
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