Education is not preparation for life
Education is life itself. John Dewey
Education is a lifelong learning process. Learning happens all the time, not only in a pre-designated place called the school. It happens in the home, between home and school too. The home’s and school’s mission therefore is to provide a learning environment and opportunities to the children as the learners.Our role as a school is to provide the children and perhaps also the community with stability, optimism, confidence and progress. Our role is to ensure that the education we provide empowers our children.
This has been one of the strangest starts to a term that we have experienced and we must say that our students for example will see more on-line contact, consistent with our intention to blend independent tasks and parent-supported learning. The complex equation involving individual dispositions, motivation and self-reputation of children, the home environment and time available from parents all lead to this being more successful for some than others. We cannot replicate on-line the skill, experience and expertise of our teaching faculty working in a room full of children who themselves interact and support each other. It has been shown that teachers assess continuously throughout the on-line and offline classes and take many significant decisions daily to make adjustments to learning. Our move to remote learning undoubtedly compromises this.
School may look different this year with online learning and hopefully, at some point returning to regular classes, yet what will never change is our commitment to serving our students, families and community with care, compassion and dedication.Students will be challenged and engaged through authentic learning opportunities that inspire them to develop creativity, confidence and resilience to become independent and ethical life-long learners.
Much has been done over the past few months to continue our quest to enhance and improve our facilities. This had been an extraordinary time past few months. Despite the rapid and often unexpected changes which challenge every aspect of what we are as a school, we have prevailed. We have been successfully transforming every stumbling block into a stepping stone to success.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. Jane D Hull
Parental involvement in a child’s education process is both a gift to their child and a gift to the school. This partnership, we strongly encourage and highly value at Nazareth school.
We have been incredibly impressed with the tangible and positive partnership with parents, working in mutually supportive but fundamentally different roles. Faced by the common enemy of Covid-19 and the consequences for schooling, those roles are becoming blurred, with parents sometimes taking more of a role in the daily education of their children than they are used to. This is a phenomenally challenging task, particularly for those with younger children. Our aim is continuity of education by providing learning that can be done independently, with the teachers acting as distance task-setters and coaches through the wonderful technology at our disposal. We at Nazareth school place on record to thank all the parents of our wards for their continuous support and collaboration.
With a harmonious bond we, school and home are judiciously swimming with the tides of the situation and catering to the children's needs jubilantly - a congratulatory pat is all ours. Keeping together is success and working together is progress.Together may we give our children the roots to grow and the wings to fly.
Thank you.
God bless!
Sr Mariet DCunha
Principal
Nazareth School
Balmatta, Mangalore
