Mission Statement

Foothills School provides a vibrant learning community where students develop personal, academic, and social responsibility - leading to a lifetime of discovery.

Goals

• Nurture the development of intellect, character, and creativity within a supportive community.
• Foster critical and creative thinking.
• Nurture passions, talents, strengths, and abilities.
• Promotes self-awareness, self-confidence, leadership and personal power.
• Engage in learning outside the school via fieldwork, research and extended trips.
• Collaborate, negotiate, and problem solve.
• Create a climate of respect for diversity, mutual trust, and personal and social responsibility.
• Acquire the tools of inquiry and expression through the study of ideas.
• Construct a personally meaningful understanding of the world.
• Promote physical, mental and emotional health.
• Provide a collaborative relationship wherein parents are recognized as partners in their child's education.