The Burton Borough School

A Distinctive Ethos

We believe in and strive to achieve:

  • Education before results (both, if possible)
  • Coherence
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Quality assurance
  • Challenge & rigour
  • Tough love
  • Engagement
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Fun
  • The highest standards of behaviour management
  • Flexibility & innovation
  • The highest standards of professionalism
  • Self-examination & quest for improvement
  • Student independence
  • Transparency & accountability
  • The highest quality of materials
  • Clean, purposeful & attractive working areas

The opportunity to Enrich, Inspire and Empower

  • Enrich: a stimulating curriculum, supported by extra-curricular activities such as Readathon, visiting speakers and theatre groups, theatre trips, student conferences, DOT Days, literary competition entries…
  • Inspire: teaching and texts which seize students’ imaginations and promote a life-long love of literature and learning…
  • Empower: equipping students with the vital functional skills they will need to operate successfully in the worlds of today and tomorrow…

A sense of team: one for all and all for one