Jesuit School

STUDENT'S PARENTS MEETING

5 AUGUST 2017

THE AIM

The vision of Jesuit education

Today, our aim is to educate

leaders in service. The Jesuit school will help students to develop the qualities of mind and heart that will enable them, in whatever station they assume in life, to work with others for the good of all in the service of the Kingdom of God.

Jesuit education affirms the radical goodness of the world ‘charged with the grandeur of God’, and it regards every element of creation as worthy of study and contemplation, capable of endless exploration. Education in a Jesuit school tries to create a sense of wonder and mystery in learning about God’s creation.

The Jesuit school

Intellectual Formation

The Jesuit school is a community of faith

This intellectual formation includes a growing ability to reason reflectively, logically, and critically.

Jesuit schools are a part of the apostolic mission of the church in building the Kingdom of God

In Jesuit education, particular care is given to the development of the imaginative, the affective, and the creative

Every Jesuit school does what it can to make Jesuit education available to everyone, including the poor

and the disadvantaged

Jesuit education develops traditional skills in speaking and writing and also with modern means of communication.

Jesuit schools form a network, joined by a common vision with common goals.

One common purpose: the formation of the balanced person with a personally developed philosophy of life that includes ongoing habits of reflection.

The policies and programs of a Jesuit school give concrete witness to the faith that does justice.

Religious Formation

Cura Personalis

Cura personalis (care for the individual) remains a basic characteristic of Jesuit education.

Jesuit education is committed to the religious development of all students.

Jesuit education recognizes the developmental stages of intellectual, affective and spiritual growth and assists each student to mature gradually in all these areas.

Jesuit education promotes a faith that is centered on the historical person of Christ, which therefore leads to a commitment to imitate him as the ‘man for others’.

The curriculum is centered on the person rather than on the material to be covered.

Personal development through the training of character and will, overcoming selfishness and lack of concern for others and the other effects of sinfulness,

In a Jesuit school, the atmosphere is one in which all can live and work together in understanding and love, with respect for all men and women as children of God.

and developing the freedom that respects others and accepts responsibility,

is all aided by the necessary and fair regulations of the school; these include a fair system of discipline.

JESUIT SCHOOL

Pupils in a Jesuit school

Teachers in a Jesuit school

Jesuit education includes formation in values and attitudes.

The Jesuit school is centered on Christ present in the Christian community.

The decisive action called for today is the faith that does justice.

Those who graduate from our schools should have acquired, in ways proportional to their age and maturity, a way of life that is a proclamation of the charity of Christ

Jesuit education tries to develop in students an ability to know reality and to evaluate it critically.

Today our prime educational objective must be to form

Jesuit education includes personal development through the training of character.

The Jesuit school provides students with opportunities for contact with the world of injustice, with the poor and for service to them, both in the school and in outside service projects.

Jesuit education takes place in a moral context where knowledge is joined to virtue.

‘men and women for others’

To be educational, this contact is joined to reflection – an analysis of the causes of poverty.

Teachers try to become more conscious of the faith

that does justice, so that they can provide students

with the intellectual, moral and spiritual formation

that will enable them to make a commitment

to service, that will make them ‘agents of change’.

They try to live in a way that offers an example to the students,

and they are willing to share their own life experiences.

Teachers are more than academic guides. They are involved in the lives of the students, taking a personal interest in the intellectual, affective, moral and spiritual development of every student, helping each one to develop a sense of self-worth and to become a responsible individual within the community.

The teacher is at the service of the students, alert to detect special gifts or special difficulties, personally concerned, and assisting in the development of the inner potential of each individual student.

An educator in the Jesuit tradition is encouraged to exercise great freedom and imagination

Cura personalis remains a basic characteristic of Jesuit education.

Efforts are made to achieve a true

union of minds and hearts and to work together as a single apostolic body in the formation of students.

AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM!