Our Vision
Oporto British School aims to be an inspirational institution of thinking and learning, promoting excellence from all our pupils, and developing the compassionate, responsible leaders of the future.
Our Mission
To do everything we can to motivate each and every child here, and work to ensure they do the best they possibly can in their academic work and other areas of their lives. In doing this, we combine tradition with forward-thinking educational practice, providing a dynamic, high-quality and internationally-minded experience to develop creative, compassionate and inquiring life-long learners and leaders.
Welcome to Primary
Oporto British School Primary Section is a place where children can thrive and grow. We aim to help children understand the value of both education and leisure and encourage them to become confident, happy individuals. We encourage all pupils to ‘Strive for success’ as an integral part of our nurturing school community.
We provide a secure, stimulating and challenging learning environment where each child is respected as an individual. We aim to meet the educational needs of all our children – we set high standards and encourage children to be confident in setting high, yet realistic expectations and goals. Children are helped and encouraged to work independently as well as collaboratively – every child feels happier if the sense of belonging and participation is realized and developed.
Throughout Primary we teach the Cambridge International Academic Programme. This is a superb resource to allow pupils, in an international environment, to fully access a very dynamic curriculum. Pupils are externally tested at the Form 5 year.
From age 3 onwards, pupils are thoroughly challenged with opportunities for public speaking and performing. We also like to celebrate success; school assemblies as well as ‘special’ events, form a major part of school life. Parental involvement in school life is encouraged and we look forward to welcoming you to our school.
Welcome from Mr Chris Payne, Head of Secondary
Welcome to the Secondary school section which aims to provide information about the curriculum along with keeping you up to date with news and events happening here at OBS. I hope that the website will give you an insight into the fantastic activities and exciting learning opportunities in our school.
The Secondary section is a warm and welcoming environment. Our goal is for every pupil to have a secure place where they can expand their knowledge, develop their learning and hone their social skills through providing a rigorous academic curriculum along with opportunities beyond the classroom. OBS is not an academically selective school but we expect all pupils to strive for success in everything they undertake.
Many of our pupils undertake university education in England. Others attend university here in Portugal, while some have gone on to study in other European countries and further afield.
Our pupils represent the school nationally and internationally in the Arts, in sporting events, at the MUN, on CAS activities and at academic conferences. We believe that through a strong partnership between teachers, parents and pupils, your child will have the opportunity to flourish as a learner and as an individual. They will also benefit from working with our teaching staff, a group of dedicated professionals who are passionate about teaching children, experienced in teaching their subjects and specialism and who are also always striving for success in their teaching strategies and classroom practice.