Promotion and Grooming of Life Skills

Promotion and Grooming of Life Skills

A.    Counseling.

1.    Counseling for Students – We aim at preventive rather than a curative approach to counseling.  In this regard, the Life Skills Program at School covers aspects such as decision making and assertiveness training for students of classes VI-X. It is conducted by the counselor and by peer moderators. In addition, Career Counseling sessions though various seminars and career talks are conducted regularly for students at 10+2 level, thereby enabling students to make informed career choices.

2.    Counseling for Teacher – Workshops are organized for professional enrichment of faculty members as well as to sensitize them to various issues pertaining to students such as identification of special children, behavioural concerns etc.

3.    Counseling for Parents – Counseling is provided to parents in order to inform them about the innovative educational programs and other issue related to their respective wards.

B.    Leadership Skills:

To achieve our larger goals of creating conscious and responsible citizens, we endeavour to develop confidence and leadership qualities in our students. By the time our children graduate from the School, they would have evolved into leaders who have a sense of empathy with, and compassion for, those not so fortunate as themselves. The aim of the School Prefecture System is to teach the older students to care for the younger ones, and not merely to enforce discipline.

C.    Communication Skills:

The ability to communicate correctly, clearly and positively is the key to achievement and success. Accordingly, the school has evolved a learning environment where children get ample opportunity, formal and informal, to hone their communication skills. Classroom techniques like pair and group work, role play, and personality development activities like elocution and debating aim at the inculcation of effective communication skills.

D.    Decision Making and Thinking Skills:

We believe that it is important for our children to learn to think for themselves. As such, they are encouraged to ask questions in class and not be passive recipient of information. They are also put in situations where they have to use their innovative, imaginative and organizational skills. A structured programme aimed at the development of problem solving and thinking skills is followed.

E.    Character, Discipline, Value Education & Personality Development:

The value of inner discipline and the belief that the ultimate aim of civilization is a well-ordered life in a peaceful society are, at all times, conveyed to the children. Value education classes aimed at instilling a sense of morality and ethics, and activities that promote team spirit, fellowship and self-control aid the formation of character in our children.

F.    Minimum Fitness Program:

Under the aegis of the sports council the school has implemented the minimum fitness program under which athletics are compulsory for all students. Each child is encouraged to play minimum two games. In addition inter class matchers are held, specialized coaching in different games provided.

G.    House System:

The students of the school are divided into Four Houses, each at the Primary, Middle, Secondary and Senior Secondary level. The house is managed by Housemasters. The Housemasters select House Captains. It is compulsory for every student to be a member of a House. The main idea of the House System is to inculcate in our students the essential qualities of leadership, team work, co-operation, mutual understanding and self-reliance. Various inter-house activities are held for this purpose throughout the year. In addition, each House in every department is given a theme on which the students present the morning assembly as per the schedule.The various houses are Green House, Yellow House, Red House and Blue Houses.