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 School with Aims and clear Identity

Nothing worthwhile can happen in any school unless it knows what it represents and then has the intention to do all things to achieving that identity. The first task of any new school is to decide what its ideal identity is.  It is the foundation platform on which everything is built.

Nearly all schools will have spiritual, social, psychological and academic aims and practices present but unless they give fuller meanings and are linked in the organisational sense. We can contrast the bigger identity label too. And clearly see a science college will never produce artists but other labels are harder to define and compare.  

The Holistic Functioning School has the word whole or total in it and mean the educational stress on all aspects of the child’s development and therefore have a strong child centred education policy.  To describe the community or a family school can be more difficult as it can mean many variable things that may be unified or dysfunctional. It can be very structured or liberal and easy going. In the worst scenario it is mixture and inconsistent.  This means when we give any identity to build and maintain it must have all the curriculum elements understood so the application of the syllabuses can also be unified.

The focus of any school has to be a clearly defined statement that informs parents and others this is what we are and that your children will pursue their studies to these ends. It can declare itself as any model you choose but with it comes all the projected out-comes from your school. I might say I want Holistic Education for all children and design my curriculum around that idea. I can state that our end aim is to get most of our students into top universities and plan learning programmes to achieve that end.

However any school that cannot define its' self, will aimlessly achieve little or no success in anything.