It is my pleasure to welcome you to Ryde School with Upper Chine. For over 100 years the School has been educating young people from the Isle of Wight and beyond.
The heart of the Ryde educational experience is shown in the Ryde School crest. The torch that symbolises knowledge, learning through experience and exploration, not just books. The three stars for body, mind and soul which represent physical, mental and spiritual learning. The gold represents the excellence to be achieved and the chevrons the reward for doing so, and for building character.
This has represented education delivered throughout the School’s history and highlights how there is more to an education than excellent exam results. We prides ourselves on a rounded and holistic experience for all pupils, as relevant in 1921 when the School was founded as it is today.
As the leading independent day and boarding school on the Isle of Wight we welcome children aged 2 to 18 from across the Island and many pupils who travel the short distance across the Solent to us from Portsmouth and surrounding areas plus a growing number of international students and UK boarders from Scotland through to France, the USA, Hong Kong and beyond.
We are proud of our academic results, both for pupils going to universities such as Oxford and Cambridge and those who, with great effort and determination from teacher and pupil, secure GCSE results way above their national predictions and we are committed to educating the whole child.
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Our sports and clubs all flourish, we have very active Duke of Edinburgh's Award and CCF groups. Drama and music is a joy in our new Jenny Kerry Performing Arts Centre, opened in the summer of 2022. We are very fortunate to have a beautiful setting here on the Isle of Wight. There is much to explore and learn on the Island which we combine with an international outlook as a Round Square and IB World School. To that end, we are an island school with a global outlook. I encourage you to come and visit us to see this for yourself. Will Turner, Head Master |
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