INTRODUCTION

This Handbook is designed to inform parents and boys of the organisation and ethos of the School, and to be a source of reference on many matters. However, it is not meant to discourage personal inquiries to members of the School community.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Aims

The School aims to:

• help young people to develop their potential to the full so that they may grow into whole, mature adults.
  
• foster the habit of pursuit of knowledge and understanding, thus seeking wisdom.
  
• encourage students to show a concern for the physical and emotional well-being of other people in the School and beyond it.
  
• help students understand man's spiritual needs and encourage them to find an answer to these spiritual needs.
  

Objectives

In seeking to achieve these Aims the School in its formal and informal activities endeavours to provide an ethos of nurture for all members of the School community so that it may:

• help each student attain a level of skills in literacy, oral communication and computation that is commensurate with his abilities
  
• ascertain the academic capabilities of each student and require appropriate standards of work from each individual
  
• present the Christian faith as a basis for living and develop a sympathetic appreciation of other world religions
  
• expose students to the experience of worship
  
• develop the capacity to gather information, organise it concisely and think clearly and logically
  
• encourage all to learn to form opinions based on adequate evidence, stand up for those opinions in the face of opposition, but accept that others may have differing opinions while being no less worthy persons for having them
  
• provide opportunities and compulsory experiences which will encourage academic, emotional, physical, cultural and spiritual development
  
• encourage interest and creativity in as wide a range of the arts and sciences as is practicable at any time
  
• help each student to identify fields of endeavour and learning where he may perform at a high level and so develop a feeling of self worth
  
• develop an understanding of man's relationship with the environment, and of his place in society
  
• help students prepare to enter an appropriate vocation, recognising that their career and personal goals are likely to change during their lives
  
• help students to develop physical coordination and strength, personal courage and endurance, and to experience the sense of well-being to be derived from making the most of one's physical abilities
  
• encourage students to use leisure time fruitfully and with satisfaction.