• Firstly, the basics so that all children can read and write confidently and manage the mathematics they meet in daily life.
   
• Secondly, to prepare the children for an ever-changing world, for jobs which may not yet exist and to enjoy a wide range of personal interests in their leisure time.
   
• Thirdly, to enable the children to become rounded adults with an awareness that the world is full of possibilities and that their own lives may be enriched by developing their talents and interests in the widest range of cultural, sporting and academic activities.

Darell has a tradition of offering innovative and stimulating programmes of study to guide the children's learning from nursery through to transfer to secondary school.

The school philosophy is based on consideration of children's development in intellectual, social and moral, emotional and personal, aesthetic, spiritual and physical terms. This is reflected in an enriched curriculum with the creative arts incorporated into every aspect of school life.