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3. Message from the Chairman As the world is changing rapidly, so should the past reasoning behind the present educational systems to be challenged. Education today is to enable every child to learn from human history and be even more innovative than the box allows it to be. "Education is the means to activate the mind of the learners, widen their horizon, fire their intellect and curiosity." Our teaching pedagogy focuses on "Personality over percentage" We wish to ensure that the society and supported by steadily working on the foundation of knowledge. Today's learner enters a work of demand and competition. It is our sole focus to empower the child and work on development of positive attitudes and healthy habits. Students are also introduced to social etiquettes to develop strong moral and ethical values that will make them reliable and responsible citizens with the tempering of value education. We wish to encourage the paradigm shift about the view of the out of the box, new age learner.

4. Our Mission Our mission is to prepare children for life, nourishing the potential in every child so that each may connect and contribute his/her unique ideas and abilities to society. We believe our purpose of education is to incessantly create good citizens, people who will be productive, good family members, neighbors and informed and engaged civic-minded global participants who strive to make the world a better place.

5. Harmonized Curriculum We know that each learner embraces a different learning methodology. A good curriculum reflects the needs of an individual learner. Our curriculum is in proper shape in order to meet the challenges of time and make education more responsive to the learners we serve. The curriculum is designed to ensure the all-round development of each learner. A child-centric approach is utilized that promotes structured play, practical applications of knowledge and skills and educational school trips which stresses the importance of experimenting and experiencing in order to develop the total personality. Teachers are trained to create and use programs that make learning a blissful and hassle-free experience for their learners. Emphasis is on helping learners develop a growing enthusiasm towards learning, and a healthy drive to excel and achieve. For the Primary years a harmonized curriculum is followed based on the integration of various national & international educational boards. This comprehensive curriculum has a clear framework of aims and values with major objective being "global mindedness". The focus is entirely on " LEARNING THAT MATTERS" We intend to offer a fertile combination of activities to enrich our learners. We wish to enable them to be equally capable of exploring their logic and creativity. All activities academic and co-curricular are designed to help them activate their mind and widen their horizons.

6. Playschool Our emphasis in Playschool is learning through play and exploration and our playschool is one big, bright classroom filled with books, puppet theatre and building blocks and also has dedicated play space, to stimulate our youngest members of the school in every way possible. Within the classroom we also have a wealth of art and craft materials. We make sure the first transition of the child from home to group involvement is not only smooth and fun-filled but also informative and enlightening .

7. Primary - Primary Years (Class 1 to Class 5) The primary years have an immense influence on a child's future, since they form the foundation for how a person approaches learning for the rest of their life. Learners are encouraged to communicate by sharing and developing ideas and knowledge. Classroom tasks are purposeful and designed carefully to develop the language and study skills required. As part of our commitment to a high quality international education, we offer small class sizes (not exceeding 25). Our teachers recognize the importance of individual attention and project-based study. We intend to offer a fertile combination of activities to our learners. We wish to enable them to be equally capable of exploring their strength. Below programs are designed to help them activate their minds and widen their horizons.

8. Assessments Learners progress is assessed on an on-going basis and frequent feedback is given to them. We believe that the purpose of assessment is to promote learning. A robust system of assessment is relevant and accurate, ongoing, informative and timely, and understandable to all. Multiple forms of assessment are used to allow learners to demonstrate their understanding; formative assessments are used to guide instruct and help the learner in goal-setting throughout the learning process while summative assessments summarize the mastery of content, knowledge or skills at a particular point in time. Multiple forms of assessment are used to allow students to demonstrate their understanding in various ways. Formative assessments are used to monitor the learning process to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching teachers to modify their instruction based on information gained through the assessments and provide immediate corrective and enrichment activities as appropriate and by the learners to improve their learning and performance Summative assessments are used to evaluate the learning process, skill acquisition, and academic achievement of the learner at the conclusion of a defined instructional program wherein the evaluation criteria are made explicit to students as developmentally appropriate. Classroom instructional activities are all designed to engage learners in building knowledge and skills and to acquire understanding of the concept. Activities are discerned to meet the needs of diverse learners.

9. Contact Us C.P. Goenka International School, Kapurbawdi Junction, Off Ghodbunder Road,Near AshapuraMandir,Thane(W) - 400607  Tel: 022 – 65754444 / 65725555  Website: www.goenkainternational.in  Email: info@goenkainternational.in