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...

Communication with the School

Hartismere Leadership Training

Video tour of the school

History and Old Hartisians

Vacancies

Welcome to Hartismere!

School Plan and Map

The school environment

Hartismere School and Sixth Form College Prospectuses

See also...

Cover Supervisor

About Hartismere

Staff Photographs

Teacher of English - (Maternity cover)

Cover Supervisor with PE specialism

Hartismere High School 1999

Alumni :: Messages from old Hartisians

Cover Supervisor with art specialism

Staff :: Past and Present

Hartismere :: 1950s

Explore...

Useful Websites

Careers Information for Pupils

National Citizenship Service (NCS)

Useful Websites

Skillsometer

Infrastructure

Charities

unifrog

Ports & Logistics

Careers & Futures Programme Feedback - Parents

New...

School Policies

Duke of Edinburgh Portal

Photography Competition

Music Evenings 2025

Parents Evening :: Year 12

WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

Trip to Athens October 2026

Bronze DofE Enrolment Letter 2025-2026

Discover...

Statutory Information Student Information Parent Information Staff Information Notices Careersfair Website Shop Vacancies Evening Homework After School Clubs Year 12 Information Photos Athens Year 11 GCSE Drama Tennis Learning Photography Feedback

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...