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As one year ends and another begins we can reflect upon what we leave behind and look forward to all that offers us in the days ahead.
In our work, our parenting or our teaching of children, we want children to always respect us, but never to fear us. (Walker, Kathy 2010)
In our work, our parenting or our teaching of children, we want children to always respect us, but never to fear us. (Walker, Kathy 2010)
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.” ~John Dewey
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~William Haley
We believe it is important that a school be 'led' by a set of agreed shared beliefs. To achieve this staff and community need to enter into 'learning conversation's to define and articulate such a philosophy. As it is said: If you stand for nothing you will fall for anything' or 'Control your own destiny or someone else will'.