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Aims

Freedom to be yourself

We all hold something wonderful, something so special that it could be the key in changing the world. Montessori

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If students are allowed to develop freely their learning journey, they will connect to everything around them and naturally care about each other and the world around them. Montessori

Children have precise inner guides. The work of adults is to help them to be all that they could be. Montessori

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Education should show the way to return to a more meaningful, holistic way of living.

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Our Aims are to ...

  • Ensure happiness, health, enjoyment and wellbeing of our students (Galligan and Kohlberg, 1988).
  • Identify & promote students' individual potential and qualities (Streight, 2009).
  • Actively recognise and address students vulnerability (Lishchinsky, 2010).
  • Promote freedom (Colnerud, 97)

Our Aims are to .....

  • Advocate and ensure that students are not discriminated against on the basis of gender, age, ability, economic status, family structure, lifestyle, ethnicity, religion, language, culture or national origin.
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Ensure students' environmental safety. Students need to live in a safe world which provides them health care, food and shelter. A world free from violence and abuse

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Ensure that each student’s culture, language, ethnicity, religion and family structure are acknowledged and valued. ASCD

Promote multi-agency working

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Promote students' social, emotional, cognitive and physical development which respect their contribution to communities and their dignity. Mitchell et al - Streight, Kolberg

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Praise and promote unicity.

Ensure students' understanding and development of their role as global citizens with shared responsibilities to the environment and humanity. Dewey

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