BAKU-OXFORD SCHOOL GUIDING STATEMENTS

BAKU-OXFORD SCHOOL GUIDING STATEMENTS

Vision

Baku Oxford School aspires to become the international school of choice providing a safe and supportive environment for internationally-minded local and expatriate families.


Mission Statement

Baku Oxford School offers an international and intercultural perspective of the world where students’ unique qualities are valued and learner differences accommodated. Life- long learning and leadership is fostered through self-motivation, creativity, and critical thinking.


Definition of Internationalism/Interculturalism

Encouraging an environment of mutual tolerance, respect, and understanding among all cultures in meaningful and engaging learning opportunities while developing a global perspective


Core Values 

Our core values constitute a set of guiding principles that impact on how the School’s learning community thinks and acts. 


  • Baku-Oxford School embraces the following core values: 
  • Making prudent decisions, based on students’ best interests;
  • Providing an emotionally and physically safe environment;
  • Promoting a culture of learning; 
  • Developing character and good habits; 
  • Promoting interculturalism and internationalism;
  • Developing the whole person by encouraging full participation in the life of the school;
  • Supporting student success and achievement through family-school-community
  • partnerships;
  • Maintaining open channels of communication; 
  • Developing cognitive, academic language proficiency;  
  • Delivering a challenging and inquiry-based curriculum by promoting active learning;
  • Reviewing the curriculum – goals, methods, resources, assessment;
  • Maintaining school improvement practice.

Baku-Oxford School Motto: Cogito ergo sum – I think, therefore I am 

(Rene Descartes, 1644)


‘The Oxford Way’

In order to promote a Culture of Learning, BOS students are expected to embrace 

‘The Oxford Way’: 

As a BOS student, I will always strive to be:

  •     Confident: in working with information and ideas, my own and those of others;
  •     Responsible: for myself and respectful of others;
  •     Reflective: as a learner, ready to develop my own unique ability to learn;
  •     Creative: innovative and equipped for new and future challenges;
  •     Engaged: intellectually and socially, and ready to make a difference in the world.
  •     Ethical: In their outlook and in their actions
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