Because confidence matters

Gerry Holden Headmaster of private day and boarding school Dover College

As parents, we all share the same ambitions for our children. Will my daughter be happy? Will my son do well in exams? Will my children have the opportunities to excel in what they enjoy most: be it on the stage, in the art studio or on the sports fields?

At Dover College, we develop children who are confident but not arrogant; who know how to hold a mature conversation with adults and who respond positively to the challenges facing them. Our children leave us at the end of this journey, having benefited from a truly international educational setting, ready to enjoy the excitement of further education and well equipped to find that vital balance between work and recreation.

Dover College's day pupils come from a wide area in East Kent thanks to a minibus service and good road access.

The catchment towns and villages include: Alkham, Ash, Ashford, Bekesbourne, Betteshanger, Bridge, Deal, Dover, Elham, Eastry, Eythorne, Ham, Folkestone, Hythe, Hawkinge, Kingsdown, Littlebourne, Lydden, Lyminge, Lympne, Newington, Northbourne, Ripple, Saltwood, Sandgate, Sandwich, Shepherdswell, Staple, St Margaret's at  Cliffe, Thanington, Tilmanstone, Walmer, Wingham, Whitfield, Woodnesborough, Worth and more!

Dover College's specific aims are:

· To provide a demanding but flexible academic curriculum that is challenging for pupils of a wide range of ability leading to good academic qualifications on departure.

· To ensure an academic environment in which all children can realise their full potential;

· To enable pupils to achieve better examination grades than those achieved nationally by pupils of similar intellectual capacity.

· To concentrate on leadership and personal development through a well-structured extra-curricular programme of activities, such as music, sports and drama, which promote development of the individual and engagement with the wider world.

· To maintain strong international links.

· To create a disciplined, safe and friendly environment of great cultural and social diversity;

· To ensure an ethos that encourages the spiritual, social and personal development of the individual.

· To provide the necessary personal skills and confidence to make pupils attractive to a future employer.

· To develop all members of Academic and non-Academic staff as well as pupils in these aims.

VACANCIES

There are currently no job vacancies.

GAP YEAR POSITIONS

Dover College has a long standing arrangement with a company called Lattitude which sends us 2 gap students each year.

Please note that we do not consider individual applications for Gap Year Students.

Dover College's famous alumni - called Old Dovorians - include a range of war heroes, politicians, actors, film directors, business tycoons, television personalities and a choreographer to name but a few. To find out more about each person, please click on the names and you will be directed to Wikipedia.