Dear Parents,

A warm welcome to the new academic year 2024-2025! As educators, it is always our endeavour to instil in our students a strong sense of discipline, academic rigour, and respect for people and their environment. Our students always do us proud, and they inspire our energy and growth.

Last year, we saw our students struggle with managing their own behaviour, and forming respectful relations with peers and teachers. Over-exposure to OTT and social media, as well as lack of proper monitoring and guidance, has caused a social-deficit in them, whereby they don’t understand the consequences of their own actions and tend to be casual about hurting others. Our students are good children, but they are also confused. They want to be taught the right ways to behave so that they can be accepted amongst their peers, liked by their teachers, and feel good about themselves. Never more than now, children need appropriate guidance about how to interact confidently with society and act in the best interest of all, even if it means giving up habits and behaviors that are counter-productive.

Research across the globe agrees that the key desired skills of the future will be: Creativity, Communication, Collaboration and Critical Thinking. Building these skills involves learning to get along with others, resolve conflicts amicably, handle disagreements with facts rather than opinions, treat people with respect, find solutions to problems, be aware of one’s strengths and challenges, be able to share information and ideas effectively, and work together with people to contribute positively. 

How will children learn these skills?

The most important source of this learning is the family and then the school. While these areas are covered more generally in our classroom teaching methodologies (especially in the Cambridge curriculum), these are also taught specifically to all students in our social-emotional learning curriculum. These are further consolidated when parents align their home environment to model, practice and reinforce these skills. 

I urge all parents to support the school’s efforts towards developing world citizens who have a high capacity to adjust, adapt and lead. Every child is important, in and of him/herself; and also to the community at large (both online and offline). We need to be conscious of the impact our child has on others, and I invite you to join hands with us in ensuring that they bring harmony, compassion and inclusion into the environment, wherever they might be, now and in the future.

With Warm Regards,
Principal