Mission, Values & Priorities

List of 2 items.

• Honor Code

  We are a school shaped by our mission of creating a nurturing K-12 community which embraces our core values. 

  Scholarship: Respect for knowledge and for the people, books, and institutions that teach it. Scholarship is the pursuit of understanding for its own sake, believing that it is always better to know than not to know.

   

  Integrity: The courage to speak the truth, to represent things as they really are, and to do the right thing, even when no one is watching.  

   

  Compassion: Valuing the experience and happiness of others as we do our own. In its highest form, compassion helps us see the struggles of others and spurs us to help with humility and respect.

   

  Respect: Treating other people, their possessions, and institutions as being not only important to us but firstly having integrity of their own. It includes the idea of seeing people as having their own purpose distinct from our wants and needs.

   

  During the first month of school each student in the Middle and Upper Schools will discuss the Honor Code commit to the following pledge:

   

  “As a student of Cape Cod Academy, I understand the values of the school community as explained above. By enrolling at the school, I agree to abide by these values in principle and by particulars as described in the Handbook for Parents & Students, which I have read and understand.”

   
  Lower School students work within their classrooms to establish ways in which they as a class can weave these core values into all they say and do in the classroom, in the gym, on the playground, and beyond.  
  

• Try Something New

  “At CCA, your child will be encouraged to try something new. My own daughter tried out for the spring musical and loved it! The faculty are supportive, and her peers cheered her on every step of the way.”    - New Upper School Parent

  
  

  CCA is designed for students to grow, and growth depends on stretching. The culture of CCA makes it safe for students to take risks, to try something new, and see what they can learn.

  
  

  Complementing all this is an ethos among students here that it is part of our culture to participate, to ask questions, to engage in meaningful relationships, to work hard, set goals, and be ambitious. Not only do the faculty and coaches encourage students to participate, but peers do as well. And we celebrate one another’s accomplishments in academics, athletics, and the arts.  

  
  

  Students take advantage of the wonderful opportunities offered and feel confident and empowered because they see that they are contributing positively – to a team, to the range of clubs, to the conversation. Eventually, this leads to CCA students extending and shaping new opportunities, both for themselves and for their peers.