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d’Overbroeck’s offers an exceptional academic and extra-curricular programme
that provides excellent opportunities for individual growth through shared values
and an ethos of commitment to each other.
We’re often asked what makes d’Overbroeck’s different from other schools. Well
of course we offer a progressive and far-reaching academic curriculum delivered
by committed and brilliant staff in excellent facilities. And of course, the learning
environment is supported by a huge range of sporting, cultural and academic
extra-curriculum activities. The school’s success in delivering this programme of
excellence is evident in our exceptional exam results, in students’ joyful
achievements in their extra-curricular activities and in the enthusiastic
endorsement we receive from current and former parents and students.
This success is not accidental. It’s based on an ethos of support for each and
every individual, on the development of shared values, and on offering a caring,
creative, nurturing and relatively informal environment that encourages every
single student to create the very best versions of themselves, both for today and
for the future.
But it’s not just about individual achievement. At d’Overbroeck’s, we embrace the
understanding that we are all in this journey together, that each person – staff as
well as students – contributes to the life of the school and of the wider community
in their own unique and valuable way. It’s an ethos that recognises that humans
do not exist in isolation; that we depend on connection, community, and caring –
quite simply, our humanity depends on each other. In the words of the great
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu – “A person is a person through other
persons.” This philosophy, which demands a conscious shift in how we think
about ourselves and others, is at the heart of the d’Overbroeck’s philosophy, and
it produces community members who are mature, caring, enthusiastic and
engaged, and who are set on the road not merely for great academic careers but
for truly great lives.