Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

School Aims, Values and Ethos

Sharp minds. Big hearts

The aims of our school are simple:
To provide the best quality teaching and learning experience for our students 
To help our students make a real contribution to our Community


School Aims

We want students to experience the best quality of teaching and learning. We want to help them to make a significant contribution to the Community. These are achieved within the context of a firm yet understanding and caring school environment.

Values and Ethos

Education has a very long history in Eye and the surrounding villages. The grammar school was founded in 1451 and there are indications of the presence of a School even before then. 

The school has occupied a number of locations but is now situated in a beautiful rural campus in the middle of the Suffolk Countryside. The modern school is a mixture of older and newer buildings which are low rise and set around a central garden where the pupils spend breaks and lunchtime. 

Hartismere retains a traditional but friendly ethos combining high academic standards and rich extra-curricular opportunities with a caring approach to young people. 

The school’s motto: ‘Discamus ut Serviamus’ suggests our core values and ethos. The children both ‘learn and serve’. They receive a superb academic education which is rounded out by opportunities to give to and to become ever more a part of our Community.

In this section...

Hartismere Leadership Training

History and Old Hartisians

Video tour of the school

Hartismere School and Sixth Form College Prospectuses

The school environment

Communication with the School

Welcome to Hartismere!

Vacancies

School Plan and Map

See also...

About Hartismere

Alumni :: Messages from old Hartisians

Staff :: Past and Present

Teacher of Mathematics

Staff Photographs

Hartismere :: 1950s

Explore...

theoutdoorscompany Kit Order form

Free School Meals

Hartismere Family Privacy Notice

CEIAG (Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance)

Hartismere Ofsted Report 2014 :  Consecutively  'Outstanding'

Ofsted reports

Bronze DofE Trip to Thorpe Woodlands

Absence Request Form

Tutor Time (Life Lessons)

A levels: pre-reading and research materials

New...

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2025

Sixth Form Course Information

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Computer Science

Online safety newsletters

Film post-production explained

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Discover...

Statutory Information Student Information Parent Information Staff Information Notices Communication Mobile Work Experience Support Evening ICT Remote Robmiles.Com Ofcom Homework Careers Year 11 Learning Support NPQH Applications Learning

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...