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Evolution. Not Revolution.
For Will Turner, the new Head of Ryde School, his role is about evolution rather than revolution. With already good core principles at the heart of the school, and a holistic approach to education and beyond, the school’s ‘Island school with a global outlook’ couldn’t be more relevant for today’s child. Arriving on the Isle of Wight last year from his previous role as Rettore (headmaster) in an Italian school near Trieste and now having two terms at Ryde under his belt, Will explains how the values of the Ryde School mean that children leave equipped with the tools they need to thrive.
The school’s global outlook is key to sending out well-rounded children into the world as citizens of the planet; children who can interact and think beyond their immediate lives. “We have a multi-national boarding community at the school, and we also offer the IB in the Sixth Form which has a deliberately global outlook. In an ever-increasingly small world, it’s important to think beyond the Island, the Solent, and the UK, and to think about what the UK’s place is in the world and therefore what our place is as global citizens”. This approach across the school gives each pupil a global outlook and understanding of what internationalism means and represents.
In the summer of 2022 Ryde opened the new Jenny Kerry Performing Arts Centre; a professional performance space for all areas of the school from nursery through to Sixth Form plus a new barista coffee shop for parents and Sixth Form. Leith’s Cookery School has been added to the Sixth Form as an enrichment option with a cooking course also on offer for the rest of the Senior School.
Ryde School offers not just places for day pupils, but also flexi, weekly, and full boarding for boys and girls from age 10, and scholarships and bursaries open to apply for Years 7, 9 and Sixth Form for academic, sports, sailing, the arts, and music. A Round Square and IB World School, Ryde was the first independent school in the UK to offer three routes for Sixth Form: The International Baccalaureate Diploma and the IB career-related programmes as well as ‘A Levels +’ which includes additional enrichment options. A new Prep School curriculum was also introduced in 2021 with a new STEM facility called The Hive, including a Lego studio and a new pastoral Heart Centre.
