Per Ardura Ad Astra – Through difficulty to the Stars.  The school’s motto “Per Ardua Ad Astra” was established in 1929 when the property of “Merton”, the present site of the Alexandra School, was acquired to house the school.  The motto remains a guiding light for past and present students.

We are committed to ensuring that:

• Staff are qualified, trained and professionally supportive
• Students are provided a teaching and learning environment which is conducive to ensuring that they:
  • meet and overcome challenges to achieve high academic success
  • are confident, caring and socially well-adjusted
  • display mastery of technology skills and use them for problem solving and knowledge utilization and
  • manifest critical and critical thinking and a willingness to explore and innovate
• The school’s compound is clean, appropriately equipped and aestheically presentable.

We value:

• The ability of all students to learn and to succeed
• Staff’s and students’ fundamental and uncompromising thrust towards the pursuit of excellence
• The ethical underpinning of fairness, honesty, openness and respect in all our actions
• The responsibility to be responsive to the need of both students and staff
• The need to be accountable for our actions in the areas of our responsibility.