Find your Future

When Sir John Bayley founded Wrekin College in 1880, he wanted to establish a school that would be different. In particular, he said “the danger of any school is that of falling into a narrow groove of teaching all children as though they were turned out by Mother Nature in stereotyped fashion, of failing to realise that any successful school is one where each pupil receives individual attention”.  This philosophy has been Wrekin College’s guiding principle ever since, contributing to our aim of providing exceptional education standards that enable every pupil to achieve their best. Everything offered at our independent senior school is designed to stretch and challenge our pupils and make them better people, for life. Academic achievement is at the heart of all we do; we foster an ethos of encouraging our pupils to be the very best they can be, and their own personal bests are all they are ever measured against.

After all, nobody can do better than their best and our Challenge Grade Review system, providing monthly reports for parents, does just this. Hand in hand with this is our Employability curriculum; if exam results open the door, our Employability programme shows them how to walk through it and flourish on the other side, subsequently opening doors for others. Together with our Character Adventure Training, which marries Employability with the skills learned in our Duke of Edinburgh Award programme and our Combined Cadet Force, Wrekin truly offers the all-round curriculum necessary for 21st Century life.