Our Vision, mission & values

Our Vision

LEH provides girls with a distinctive education that prepares them to take their place at the table, in the room and in the world, in their chosen sphere.

Our Mission

LEH fosters a culture that supports every pupil to achieve excellence and success, both shared and individual, to be fulfilled, and to have significant impact in every way she chooses.

Our Values

·         We choose to succeed.

·         We rise to challenges.

·         We lift those around us.

·         We inspire trust.

·         We encourage personal agency.

·         We embrace joy and laughter.

 

Facing the Future Undaunted - LEH's Strategy to 2029

"Our girls are some of the most academically able in the UK. We have a moral imperative to help them realise their potential and to provide an environment that gives them the confidence to feel brave and undaunted about their future achievements and impact."

Mrs Rowena Cole, LEH Head Mistress

In an external environment as changeable and unpredictable as ours, knowing the strength, capability and character of our pupils, their ambitions for the future and the impact we know they will have in the years to come, is what fuels us with much-needed hope and optimism.  

This is what sits at the core of LEH’s new strategy: Facing the Future Undaunted. It’s a declaration of our aims and ambition for LEH and for every pupil, and it sets out our collective goals as a school community over the next few years. Shaped with the involvement of our pupils, parents, staff, alumnae and governors, our strategy embodies all that we stand for as a school for highly capable girls.

Our four core strategic objectives set out our aims and will guide the work of LEH so that we can provide the very best education for every pupil:

1. A Bold Voice for Girls' Education

We will push forward the boundaries of educational knowledge, informed by research that focuses on delivering the best possible education for girls.

2. Academic Excellence in Every Area

We will deliver consistent academic excellence and provide an outstanding educational experience for bright girls, offering stretch and challenge in a context of kindness and care.

3. A Culture of Success for All

We will enable a culture of success for all, where everyone is expected to deliver their best for themselves and for each other.

4. A One-School Approach

We will harness the strength of being one school, delivering an outstanding joined-up education.

 

Statement of Religious Foundation

The school is a Christian foundation, but welcomes girls of all faiths and none. It is committed to the contribution it makes to society as a whole, and to equal opportunities, and it embraces diversity.

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The school is situated next door to Hampton School, an independent school for boys, with whom we enjoy many links to the great benefit of all our pupils.

LEH and Hampton School value the integrity of single-sex education for all students with all the resulting advantages for specialisation and focus in learning styles, emotional, psychological and pastoral education.

Both are committed to:

• Exploiting to the fullest advantage for the benefit of their pupils the tradition of co-operation which we believe offers the “best of both worlds”
• Seeking and enhancing all areas of mutual co-operation and joint activity to the benefit of both schools, their staff and pupils

To achieve this, the schools have a Joint Liaison Committee to oversee, promote and celebrate the strong and ever-growing links between them.

There are many areas of co-operation between the two schools, including the following:

• Millennium Boat House
• Annual Joint Musical and other drama productions
• Joint Choral Society
• Modern Language Exchanges
• CCF
• Service Volunteers and Community Service
• Talk! Programme and Senior Café
• Joint Form Charity Events
• Joint Careers Events
• Preparation for University
• Sixth Form weekly Enrichment lessons
• Shared coach service