Bryanston School

Bryanston’s distinctive culture, inspired by nearly a 100 years of innovative
educational practice has created a unique school that allows pupils to learn to
love their minds, free their spirit and find their mission. Alongside high academic
standards and expectations, we provide an emotionally and intellectually
supportive environment and pupils develop independent, creative, and
unbounded thinking. We encourage innovation in all areas of the curriculum,
passionately believing that it is not what you learn, it is how you learn.
At the heart of our unique approach to education is the Bryanston Method.
The Method encourages a creative, curious, innovative, and analytical approach
to learning. The curriculum is broad, and critical thinking and intelligent challenge
are encouraged in all subjects. Each pupil has one tutor for the entirety of their
time at Bryanston. The School’s innovative monitoring tool, the E-Chart, enables
pupils to fulfil their own academic potential.

Bryanston is committed to breadth and stretch both within the academic
and beyond. We encourage our pupils to look further to enhance their personal
development and prepare for life beyond the School. Of course, academic results
are important, but we also care about what each pupil gains from their time
at Bryanston – the success of their experience and the value we add, and that
Bryanston gives them – along with the destinations they head to after they leave
us and the lives they lead beyond Bryanston.

Our approach is firmly focused on the individual and we work tirelessly to
ensure that each pupil not only achieves the results they deserve, but also learns
to think independently, be self-reliant and explore new interests – they often
surprise us and themselves. Our culture fosters an open-minded, challenging,
and inspiring environment for personal growth where we provide the space for
pupils to find their passions.

The wellbeing of our pupils is at the heart of everything we do, we provide
pastoral care and support as an integral element of our approach. In the boarding
houses, the house parent takes a close interest in every pupil’s academic progress
and welfare, and together with the deputy house parent and tutor, they support
and nurture the interests of each child. The house parents are supported by
a matron, residents and a house team made up of teaching staff who help to
supervise work in house, evening activities and bedtimes. The pupils also have
access to the school Chaplain, who is resident on the site, the nurses in the
medical centre, two school counsellors and an independent listener.
As part of the co-curricular programme, Bryanston offers all pupils the
opportunity to explore their interests well beyond the classroom with an
extensive range of activities. Pupils are encouraged to follow their co-curricular
passion and to learn a new skill or interest. Participation in these activities
enables pupils to build relationships with teachers and fellow pupils in a less
formal environment. Many pupils get involved in the running of these activities
as they move through the School.

Our relationships are different from the conventional dynamics of pupil and
teacher – we see the journey through the School as a collective endeavour to
better prepare our pupils for their lives ahead. Mutual respect, trust and pride in
the approach, is critical to its success – not just between staff and pupils, but with
parents too. Our unique take on creativity as a practical and essential element
across all disciplines makes Bryanston a very different learning experience
– building a distinctive independence of thought, self-reliance, realism, and
authenticity. We don’t ‘do education’ to our pupils, we travel beside them and
guide them on their journey.