Director's Welcome
Halcyon provides an outstanding and exceptional learning experience and our core purpose is to realise the full potential of every student in our community.
We achieve this through small class sizes, a rich and diverse curriculum, and an extraordinarily talented and dedicated teaching team. As a not-for-profit school, our focus is always on the quality of learning.
As an International Baccalaureate World School, our students follow a curriculum that is academically challenging and rewarding, flexible and student-centred, and which places an emphasis on intercultural understanding and respect. Our students graduate from Halcyon equipped with a qualification that provides a passport to the best universities around the world, as well as the personal and social skills to be leaders. We learn together, create together and succeed together. And we do this with a sense of joy and wonder.
Uniquely, we provide an innovative programme of exploration learning to ignite each student’s imagination, alongside personal learning time from Grade 6: nurturing, supporting, and celebrating every aspiration.
We are proud to be change-makers in how we prepare our students to navigate their future. We are leaders in the educational sector in our application of digital technology in the classroom. We liaise with universities to deliver a truly unique, research-driven, approach to wellbeing – the quality of feeling recognised, valued, secure, and confident.
We are a learning community bound together by a commitment to be inclusive and to support each other. Every child has a personal learning mentor; every parent is involved and is heard; every teacher is not only an outstanding educator but also a champion for your child; and our Board of Trustees provides the vision and energy to keep Halcyon at the forefront of international education.
The academic year 2024-5 will be my last as Director of Halcyon. Our community collaborated exceptionally in the process of finding, interviewing and appointing Jeff Lippman, who will take on the role of Director from the academic year 2025-2026. I couldn’t be happier to hand over to Jeff. I know he will continue the school’s pioneering approach to education and match the energy and commitment of our staff.
Barry Mansfield, Director