It is the mission of Ambleside School of Hout Bay to provide a living education, where each child is guided and empowered to author a full and free life, a life rich in relationship to God, self, others, ideas, and all of creation. Thus, our primary concern is the kind of student each child is becoming, not the mastery of particular data or technique, for we are confident that the student who masters the art of learning will attain his/her full potential for mastering data and technique. Students who master the art of relating well to God, self, others, ideas, and creation will attain the fullness of life for which they were created.
Ambleside provides a broad and life-enriching curriculum of inspirational and disciplinary subjects - students are presented daily with idea-rich material through direct encounter with literary living books and living art, music, science, mathematics, geography, history, language, nature and handwork. We strive to offer our students the richest materials along with our highest expectations of what they can accomplish.