Educational reformers have demonstrated conclusively that a school which does no more than provide instruction in dry book knowledge cannot be a good school.

Equally, a school which is so full of action that there is no room for quiet reflection has a tough task in imparting anything more than rudimentary knowledge.
Neither can preprare students adequately for life in the world as it is -- nor in the world of the future.

Our motto is therefore: As much concrete experience of life as possible and as little instruction as necessary. 

 
Individual and group project work play a central role in education at the EGG. Only in this way is it possible to combine lively learning with a life of learning.

Our school encourages "learning with the heart and the hand". Large workshops, an excellent music department, a theatre, several laboratories and outstanding sporting facilities invite active participation.  

Such an approach obviously demands adjustment to the conventional methods of examination and marking. Anyone who spends several weeks working on a wide-ranging group project involving aspects of several different school subjects cannot have all that activity judged by a single mark.

The EGG therefore practices integrated performance assessment, marking effort and achievement through continuous assessment reporting.

We employ standard marking practices wherever they are appropriate, whilst more complex learning processes are assessed wih the help of continuous reporting. Every student is requested to submit a written reply to their half-yearly report.

... Every student has a right to the learning aids and performance assessment
needed for his or her life.