SCHOOL PROFILE 2025-2026 IB code: 000017 CEEB code: 798150 UCAS number: 10794 UWC Atlantic Registered in England No. 673076. Charity No. 525761
UWC ATLANTIC AND ITS HISTORY Established in 1962, UWC Atlantic is the flagship college of the inspirational UWC global education movement, comprising 18 schools and colleges worldwide.
LEADERSHIP Naheed Bardai Principal
Sian Morgan Vice Principal Academics & IBDP Coordinator
Marija Uzunova Dang Vice Principal Education Innovation
Lucretia Fields Vice Principal Student Life, Safeguarding (DSP), Wellbeing and Belonging
Based in the 12th Century St Donat’s Castle in South Wales, a 122- acre site that includes its own seafront, woodland and farmland, boarders aged 16 to 19 from over 90 nationalities are selected to study the IBDP based purely on personal motivation and potential. The deliberate diversity of the student body is achieved by attracting students from vastly differing political, religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. The Class of 2025 has a class size of 203 students. UWC Atlantic was the first school to offer a new academic pathway within the IBDP. Started in August 2023, the Systems Transformation Pathway (STP) supports our ambition that a UWC Atlantic education develops “bridge builders and compassionate leaders, empowering them to go beyond treating symptoms to understand root causes and initiate transformative solutions to human and environmental crises”. This pioneering and distinctive new IBDP pathway has been developed from a partnership between UWC Atlantic and the International Baccalaureate. Climate change, global migration, extremism, inequality and natural resource depletion demand people with radical, changemaking thinking who look to build bridges not walls. That mindset defines UWC Atlantic students, alongside a passion to serve society in a way that is bold, forward-looking and unrestrained. Both IB Diploma pathways, the standard and the new STP pathway lead to students receiving the full IB Diploma, subject to meeting the graduation requirements.
GUIDANCE & UNIVERSITY COUNSELLING Head of Guidance and University Counselling
UWC MISSION AND MOVEMENT
Francine Mohammed francine.mohammed@uwcatlantic.org Guidance and University Counsellors
Sam Hollis sam.hollis@uwcatlantic.org
Vicki Kuether vicki.kuether@uwcatlantic.org
ACCREDITATION & MEMBERSHIP IB World School Boarding Schools' Association (BSA) Welsh Independent Schools’ Council (WISC) International ACAC
The UWC mission is to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. At UWC Atlantic, all students are expected to engage fully in college life and uphold the UWC values of: International and intercultural understanding Celebration of difference Personal responsibility and integrity Mutual responsibility and respect Compassion and service Respect for the environment A sense of idealism Action and personal example Personal challenge These values are underpinned by UWC Atlantic’s guiding principles: To be innovators in education To provide opportunity to deserving students from around the world to access this education irrespective of their ability to pay For this education to take place in a unique and exceptional setting where the entire campus is the classroom
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ADDRESS
WE ARE PART OF A GLOBAL NETWORK OF 18 SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS
UWC Atlantic St. Donat’s Castle St. Donat’s Llantwit Major CF61 1WF United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1446 799000
universityguidance@uwcatlantic.org
www.uwcatlantic.org