Mission Statement
School Guiding Statements
KNES
Mission Statement
“While engaged in our scholastic pursuit towards excellence in all
academic areas we recognize all the moral values in building Humanity, realise
our common destiny and engage ourselves to act upon issues threatening our
Human Family and hence our Earth Home.”
“Education, and only the right one, means liberation; ignorance is the worst sign of slavery”
Condorcet
1743 – 1794
French
Philosopher,
Politician
and Mathematician
MISSION STATEMENT ENHANCED
All students at Kuwait National English School are members of an international community: they get to know each other and learn to respect each other.
We aim to build their personalities, to broaden their minds, to increase their knowledge in all academic subjects, to prepare them, while developing their cognitive skills. To be ready to tackle different issues: human, social, cultural, scientific, and environmental…
In other words, we prepare
our students to be fully responsible, to develop intercultural understanding
and be Internationally minded.
We aim to develop their intellectual and cognitive skills as well as physical,
social and artistic skills but, we aim also to prepare our students to be fully
responsible citizens, conscious not only of their rights but also of their
duties as being part of the “Human Family” and to take care of our “Earth
Home”.
“Education,
and only the right one, means liberation; ignorance is the worst sign of
slavery”
Condorcet
1743 – 1794
French
Philosopher,
School
Philosophy
Our school is international in its students and in its variety of teachers, with many British and international staff as well as French native speaking teachers for the French Department, Arabic teachers for the Arabic and Islamic Departments.
We aim to build a community, gathering people from different cultural backgrounds in which everyone recognizes our common humanity and destiny. Our students learn and understand that we are living in fragile limited, interdependent world and which is in constant evolution.
We believe that our students from different origins
and of different nationalities benefit from members of staff also from
different cultures with wide professional experience.
The school recruits’ teachers
and staff who offer this experience and tries to give them conditions of work
that can help them to allow students to achieve their full potential.
Students, who come to KNES, often go somewhere else to continue, their studies according to activities of their parents. We have to take this factor into account for their further adaptation to be easier.
In brief, we consider the following points as part
of our mandate:
Ø
To
develop the respect of the fundamental
values such as truth, trust, integrity, justice, solidarity, respect for others
and respect for their well-being.
Ø
To
develop in each student verbal and written skills and to be digitally
independent.
Ø
Within
the limits of the syllabus and the resources of the school, we try to develop
the student’s intellectual, physical, and social abilities.
Ø
To
promote in each student a spirit of inquiry, analysis, and a sense of criticism
in order that, within the conflicting ideologies of our modern world and the
plethora of information, they succeed in making up their own personal opinion.
Ø
To
try to give enthusiasm to students to study and to let them learn by themselves
(to learn how to learn).
Ø
To
train students in experimental methods and in observation: to look for information
(facts), to investigate and to explain.
Ø
To
develop reasoning skills to demonstrate and to provide evidence on what is
stated.
Ø
To
make sure that body and mind are one, (a healthy mind works only with a healthy
body).
Ø
To
make sure each student is aware of the fragility of our environment and
practice responsible conservation.
Ø
To
instil in each student a sense of loyalty to his/her peers and to the school.
Ø To
educate students in the importance of social contribution and to inculcate a
strong sense of civicism to prepare them to be useful members of the Global
Community.
Ø In all activities, to
encourage respect for the diversity of cultures within the school and the world
in general, in a word to promote the spirit of tolerance and to promote the
necessary spirit for co-operation in general, and for peace.
