Oxford Manor College strives to provide students with the added value given by the experience and passion of its specialist teachers. The school aims to add value by broadening students' viewpoints, giving them a 'hands-on' understanding as well as better subject knowledge, as shown by regular Cambridge assessments. A system of 'check sheets’ is used where appropriate in all subjects, beginning in the Lower School and progressing to the Upper School.

This approach accommodates students of a wide range of abilities, from those needing support to the more able. Oxford Manor College’s students are good learners and are encouraged to make full use of the school's systems of self-assessment, including the check sheet system, to aid their progress.

Oxford Manor College takes great care to forward students' personal development, supported by effective arrangements in safeguarding and other policies to ensure their welfare, health, and safety. Superlative relationships with staff are a key to this, and Oxford Manor College aims to create an atmosphere throughout the school in which all new students are made to feel welcome and free from bullying or other distractions. Consequently, behaviour and moral standards are kept high, and students achieve a good level of self-confidence, and a high communication level, and learn, in varying degrees, to be socially and culturally aware. Clear procedures for the use of electronic devices minimize any risk of bullying or inappropriate use of the internet and appropriate security firewalls and other e-safety provisions are made.