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College Aims and Ethos
Aims:
- To maintain its ethos as a unique, MOD specialist training establishment, for sixth form students, destined for a career in one of the Armed Services or within the MOD civil service. In particular the DSFC:
- Is a college with a fully residential boarding population
- Is a college of focused students embarking on a military or military related career
- Is a college in which there is a strong and active partnership between students, parents and the College
- To offer all students a range of opportunities so that they can achieve to the best of their ability within a framework of shared values and standards
- To value and nurture each student as an individual, thus preparing him/her for life beyond the college.
Objectives:
- To provide a stimulating learning environment in which students can develop their academic potential to the full
- To provide a happy and secure pastoral environment in which the students can learn to live together and thus foster a sense of community, co-education, respect for one another and good citizenship
- To provide students with the opportunity to take advantage of a breadth of co-curricular activities in order to develop positively all aspects of their character
- To provide students with the opportunity to take decisions based on their own judgment and to communicate those decisions appropriately and effectively
- To provide a clear, simple and effective management structure capable of taking timely decisions and allocating necessary resources appropriately
- To provide the necessary administrative and logistic framework to meet the needs of members of the teaching and military staff and the students alike
There are four broad areas to which these objectives are directed:
- Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College's value system
- Teaching and Learning
- The Co-Curriculum
- The Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College community.
Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College's Value System
- Spiritual values Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College is a community based on interdenominational principles, and attempts:
- To make all students aware of the spiritual dimension in human experience and understanding
- To encourage an appreciation of values which transcend the material and intellectual
- To present a variety of faiths not merely as a system of beliefs but also as a way of life
- To communicate the MOD's philosophy on the ideals of self-sacrifice, service to others, unselfishness, moral integrity and responsibility
- To ensure respect for all faiths, combined with a readiness to explore and understand them
- To give all students an appreciation of human diversity and an inclusive spirit towards their fellow human beings.
- Pastoral values Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims to educate the students in the personal disciplines and attitudes necessary for living together in an effective and secure society in which:
- The views of the minority are accommodated
- The attitudes of the majority are not allowed unquestioned licence
- Multi-cultural attitudes to learning and development are valued.
- Discipline Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims to achieve the necessary level of discipline for the effective functioning of the college as a community, and inculcate the values and standards expected of young adults entering a service style of life in due course. Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College is committed to establishing an environment where there is an understanding of the need for moral, academic, and social discipline in establishing its ethos. While committed to ensuring a disciplined regime, Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims to minimize the level of imposed discipline, and to encourage the development of personal discipline and of individual responsibility.
- Leadership Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims to develop leadership potential in all its pupils so that, as adults, they will be confident not only in taking decisions based on their own judgment but also in implementing them. Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College stresses the need for those with responsibility to understand the value of:
- Moral Courage
- Establishing and upholding standards
- Welding together a disparate team in order to achieve a coherent objective
- Being unpopular, if need be, in order to be effective
- Reconciling the views of a minority without losing sight of a particular aim.
- Management Fundamental to the effectiveness of any organisation is an easily understood management system with transparent procedures. Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims to involve all members of the teaching and military staff, bursarial staff and pupils in the effective running of the College.
- Communication It is intended that Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College's channels of communication should be as clearly defined and as open as possible in order to encourage individuals to take responsibility within their own sphere of influence. A willingness to take responsibility is viewed as an effective means of building morale within the community as a whole.
Teaching and Learning
Academic achievement is viewed as the most important priority for pupils at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College. Each student is given the opportunity to fulfill his/her academic potential, commensurate with his/her ability, and to achieve the highest possible attainment level. While taking note of the National Curriculum, the Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College curriculum seeks to promote breadth and depth of study and to encourage independence of learning and self-discipline in work habits. Within this context, Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims:
- To provide a Tutorial system capable of monitoring and guiding the academic study of each individual pupil, and enabling pastoral care to support the teachers in their work
- To provide all students with realistic short- and long term targets, measuring their achievement by a balance of internal and external assessment
- To provide all students with a breadth of education through lectures, visits and outside speakers
- To provide each student with clear advice and guidance on his/her options and realistic aspirations for Higher Education, and for his/her possible future career
- To establish a balanced, varied, well structured and workable timetable
- To provide adequate resources for teaching areas (including the provision of ICT), and a clear structure and management within each academic department
- To provide where possible extra help for students, outside of the formal lesson framework, to facilitate effective learning
The Co-Curriculum
The co-curricular programme aims to offer a wide range of opportunities in which each pupil can develop other skills and interests, while increasing his/her own self-esteem and confidence. Such opportunities are sensitively timetabled in order to minimize clashes with other commitments in the daily college calendar.
Within this context, Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims:
- To provide a wide variety of activities which stimulate interest and provide contrast, specialisation and balance to a student's everyday life
- To promote a programme for the individual and collective development of leadership and physical fitness skills
- Encouraging participation and involvement at all levels of ability, encouraging progressive development in leadership and management skills
- To offer a varied and well-organised sporting programme, aiming to promote individual and collective excellence as well as to encourage participation by all, regardless of ability.
- To offer all students the opportunity to participate in some form of social service and to develop and foster a caring community
- To provide opportunity for adventure-training, promoting leadership and strength of character.
The Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College Community
Significant importance is attached to the support which students are encouraged to give one another in their lives at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College. Such mutual support promotes trust, cohesion, friendship and high morale, along with a sense of belonging and security. It also seeks to emphasise the higher priority which is attached to membership of Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College rather than to any particular yeargroup or status-group. Individual development can thus be based on a pupil's acquisition of the self-discipline needed to take advantage of the opportunities on offer.
Within this context, Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College aims:
- To encourage both year groups to strive to achieve the highest possible standards avoiding hierarchical differences between year groups.
- To teach all students to listen to the views of others, to accept them where appropriate, to be forgiving of others' faults and to accept the rules and conventions by which the Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College community exists.
- To provide an environment in which male and female students benefit from sharing opportunities for development together, but in which their different needs and abilities are also recognised
- To provide opportunities for independence of thought and action, and to help each student to develop an ability to take decisions based on his/her own judgment, fundamental self-belief and inner confidence.
- To help all students to develop the confidence to communicate decisions and views, orally and in writing, in order to build strength of character and self-reliance.
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