--- title: Head's Blog - Our core values description: Following on from announcing the new mission statement for Redmaids' High, Head Paul Dwyer states his new core values for Redmaids' High School. image: https://blog.redmaidshigh.co.uk/hubfs/Burfield.jpg --- [![Black left aligned RHS GDST logo](https://blog.redmaidshigh.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/logos/Black%20left%20aligned%20RHS%20GDST%20logo.png?width=215&height=100&name=Black%20left%20aligned%20RHS%20GDST%20logo.png "Black left aligned RHS GDST logo")](https://www.redmaidshigh.co.uk/) [Back to Main Site](https://www.redmaidshigh.co.uk/) [![Redmaids' High School](https://blog.redmaidshigh.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Redmaids_High_School_April2021/images/mobile-logo.png?width=270&height=472&name=mobile-logo.png "Redmaids' High School")](https://www.redmaidshigh.co.uk/) [Back to Main Site](https://www.redmaidshigh.co.uk/) [\< Back to Blog](https://blog.redmaidshigh.co.uk/) # Head's Blog - Our core values **![PD\_torso2](https://blog.redmaidshigh.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/PD_torso2.jpg?width=235&name=PD_torso2.jpg)Our core values at Redmaids’ High School are to:** **1) Know and understand each individual student.** **2) Help students to understand themselves and their strengths.** **3) Inspire students to forge a future of lifelong learning, in all its guises** If our Mission Statement outlines what we aim for as an institution, our Values enunciate how we hope to achieve it day-to-day. Knowing our students goes beyond being able to identify when something isn’t going quite right for someone. It is in the ways in which we meet the needs of each student in a meaningful way. How we inspire everyone to their own personal heights, built on specific recommendations for reading or wider engagement with a particular subject. I developed as a historian once a teacher spotted that, if my attention wasn’t necessarily held by the Corn Laws, perhaps the Crusades might offer a better avenue. This sparked a love of the subject that I have held onto, and one that I hope I may have passed on to students in a myriad of ways since then. All our teachers are here to inspire and communicate our love of subject to those we teach and help our girls to understand that learning goes far beyond the classroom. It continues in the excited moments of conversation following an experiment in science, or a debate over the dinner table at home on the nature of truth following Religion and Philosophy. It should serve as a bulwark against challenging times when students leave our community and go on to shape the world in so many ways. In stating our mission and values in such terms, we are reaffirming all that makes the community at Redmaids’ High so special already, while pointing towards a future that is exciting and aspirational in so many ways. 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