We aim to give all our students the best possible start in life and that means inspiring them with our teaching to progress and learn every single day they are with us. Every school would lay claim to such a founding principal. In our school we focus on understanding what motivates young people to learn and share their knowledge. We fashion our learning environments to promote a need to know and a need to share. This is a natural and modern extension of Montessori's basic principal - to sustain learning situations that require young people to discover how to do things. This we believe is an essential ingredient for a modern school preparing young people for life in the modern world. Young people need to have a context for learning that is relevant to their lives - this essential need to know kick starts and sustains the motivation required to learn naturally.