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  Aims and Objectives

• 3.2: The Facilities
• 3.3: The Curriculum
• 3.4: Examinations and Reports
• 3.5: Special Educational Needs
• 3.6: The School Day
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• 3.9: 2007/2008 Diary
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Aims and Objectives

our school community at banovallum seeks to encourage the healthy development of all our pupils as they change from children of eleven to young adults leaving school at sixteen. We are anxious to promote intellectual growth, to pass on useful skills, to encourage adaptability and initative and develop a sense of reponsibility based upon self respect and a concern for others. We are aware of the need to make the lives of our pupils purposeful, secure, productive and happy at each succeeding age. Pupils are equipped and prepared for their adult lives as parents, citizens, users of leisure and people with the qualifications, skills and character to earn their living in occupations which are personally fulfilling.

The governors and staff of Banovallum wish to stress several points which they consider fundamental to the school's philosophy.

• Success in education is almost always the product of partnership between pupils, teachers and parents. We want parents to be actively involved and to inform us if at any time they are worried or dissatisfied.
• We believe that every pupil needs individual care based on close knowledge of his or her talents, interest and temperament. The tutor system allows each pupil to be part of a fairly small unit in which a small team of teachers will come to know the pupil well.
• Though children require a proper amount of freedom, there must also be order in a school if its work is to be accomplished. Coflict between these needs is avoided if pupils have respect for teachers based on the knowledge that they can expect kindness and just treatment from them.
• We can concerned that pupils should develop their individual abilities to the full, in whatever direction they lie. To this end , we seek to provide a wide range of opportunities for all, paying particular attention both to the gifted and to those who learn, slowly or suffer some handicap.
• We recognise that parents and pupils want the school to do everything possible to enhance further education and employment prospects. For this reason we encourage all pupils to take public examinations and place great stress on careers guidance.
• Knowing that education is more a collection of subjects, we seek always to develop and encourage sensible and considerate behaviour, good manners, clear and polite speech and tidy, suitable dress.
• So as to widen pupils’ interests, enable them to make good use of their leisure and to extend their sense of belonging to the school community, we offer a range of extra curricular opportunities in which we hope parents will encourage their children to participate.