About Durham International Schools Ltd

A Growing, International Network of Schools

A Durham International Schools Ltd is one that inspires, nurtures and encourages students through the provision of the finest quality teaching coupled with extensive opportunities to enable our students to achieve. Our excellent teachers encourage students to think creatively, to apply knowledge and skills successfully and imaginatively, and to constantly challenge themselves whilst building ‘Confidence for Life’ in a positive and supportive environment.

Durham is committed to delivering an education that is engaging, challenging, motivating and fun. Using a holistic and rigorous approach to education, our students learn through stimulating and creative experiences, in the classroom and beyond, in lessons and co-curricular activities. We aim to ensure that every Durham student’s experience of school is positive and productive laying the foundation for academic success.

Educational Ethos

Our Students and Their Learning Needs

Our core values of Moral integrity, Ambition, Responsibility and Kindness are the MARK of a Durham education and underpin all our teaching and learning at Durham. We aim to develop a love of lifelong learning coupled with a culture of perseverance in the face of challenge so that students can flourish emotionally, socially, academically and physically. Children are encouraged to challenge themselves, think critically, explore different ways of doing things, reflect on their learning, collaborate and be a team player.

We believe this is fundamental in developing a child’s sense of well-being, nurturing their resilience, self-esteem, sense of respect for others and sense of social responsibility.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide pupils with a complete education; one which instils in them an aspiration for achievement, a respect for others and a confidence for life.

Our Aims

Our Students and Their Learning Needs

Within a community shaped by moral integrity and kindness, Durham Kenya aims to cultivate responsibility, respect and ambition to ensure that every student can thrive, be happy and make a positive mark in the world.
The three pillars of a Durham School which support this aim and shape the environment where students can learn and grow are:

Academic challenge

providing students a lifelong appetite for learning

Pastoral care

supporting students emotional, moral and spiritual strength

Co-curricular

providing opportunities to enrich and develop the individual, fostering collaboration, teamwork and leadership.

Our Values

Our Students and Their Learning Needs

Moral Integrity

Ambitions

Responsibility

Kindness

All pupils of a Durham School automatically become members of the Old Dunelmian (OD) Society upon leaving the School, currently with over 5,000 members.

The Society exists for the benefit of ODs, who undoubtedly make firm, lifelong and lasting friendships while at Durham School. What many ODs have found is having returned or attended a function after a gap (sometimes of many years), how good it is to be reacquainted with former teachers and old friends.

The excellent reputation that the School enjoys is in no small part due to how successful its alumni are. Durham School produces confident individuals who are well-rounded, intelligent, innovative, and effective in their chosen professional fields. For a glimpse of the breadth of careers pupils from Durham School have excelled in, please see our ‘Confidence for Life’ publication.

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Notable Alumni

of Durham