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Alleyn’s School 
Academic life at Alleyn’s inspires and enriches, and is rooted in our aim to instil a lifelong love of learning in all pupils.
We are proud of our national reputation for outstanding academic results, but our vision for education goes much deeper than examination success alone. Our curriculum builds subject-based knowledge and intellectual skills for life while inspiring a joy of learning for its own sake.
We also hold firm to the traditional subjects that provide intellectual rigour—Latin remains a core part of Year 7, connecting pupils to the literary roots of Shakespeare’s world—while also embracing AiQ, our unique framework for sustainable, regenerative thinking and ethical, technology-driven innovation. Lessons at Alleyn’s are discursive and interactive when appropriate, and quiet, thoughtful, and rigorous when deliberate writing or problem-solving is required. We rely on voices, ears, pens and paper as our most valuable tools, but we are forward-thinking in our use of digital technologies to extend learning and support those with additional needs.
In deliberately engineering breadth, agency, and contrasting disciplines into every stage of the Alleyn’s curriculum, we ensure that our pupils have every opportunity to find their thing, academically – and that they’re both confident and comfortable working creatively, analytically, expressively, and methodically, whatever it is they’re seeking to achieve.
During Years 7 and 8, Lower School pupils benefit from a broad and balanced programme that provides them with ample opportunity to experience and explore. Whether our Year 7 pupils are studying Physics or Food and Nutrition, they are challenged to explore both practical and theoretical dimensions, exercising every facet of their complex brains. Pupils join Alleyn’s from a wide variety of schools and backgrounds, and the Lower School curriculum speaks both to the diversity of their interests and to areas of enquiry they have never encountered before.
As pupils move into Middle School, from Years 9 through to 11, and start studying for their GCSEs, they enjoy unparalleled freedom: beyond the core of English, Maths, and Science, they have the agency to shape a programme that excites them and reflects their multiplicity of talents, including innovative non-GCSE courses.
Pupils also benefit from the Alleyn’s Intelligence Quotient (AiQ) programme is our unique pathway designed to equip pupils with the skills, values, and mindset to help shape a more just and regenerative future. Across their school journey, pupils follow our BE, THINK, MAKE, DO framework, building the character, creativity, and critical thinking needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Through our discreet programmes and varied partnerships, pupils focus on how to be, think, make and do for impact; character education, clarity of thinking and communication, collaborative design with people and technology and real-world experiential learning.
While Alleyn’s has a strong record of academic achievement, we also believe that the best education transcends the classroom. Our extensive co-curricular options, huge range of academic societies and high-quality enrichment offering of trips and visiting speaker programmes serve to enrich the daily experience of our pupils’ and broaden their perspectives.
Our Access, Inclusion and Mentoring (AIM) Department is completely focussed on neurodiversity, other disabilities and hidden differences and works alongside all departments and the established mentoring that goes on throughout the school by Heads of House and with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Executive