GOAL 1

Establish an environment that enables each student to perform at the highest level of which he or she is capable:

1. Provide an environment that makes available the highest standard of education from which     each student can profit.

2.  Provide a psychologically and physically safe and secure environment for learning.

3. Provide a child-centered curriculum to accommodate the different abilities and interests of children.

4. Recruit and retain the most internationally qualified faculty available and promote and expect their continued professional growth.

GOAL 2

Promote the skills, knowledge, attitudes and positive self-concept necessary for the lifelong intellectual and physical development of each student:

1. Provide opportunities for students to develop intellectual, cultural, aesthetic, social and physical abilities.

2. Provide a broad program of activities that will encourage social interaction, cooperation and leadership through cooperative learning experiences.

3. Provide opportunities for students to develop skills necessary to evaluate intellectual and ethical alternatives, make responsible decisions and solve problems.

4. Stimulate the development of sense of responsibility and self-reliance.

5. Develop the ability and desire to communicate effectively in writing, speaking, and reading and to do so in more than one language through an integrated language approach.

GOAL 3

Develop strategies to help students live in an increasingly complex, challenging, interdependent and changing world:

1. Help students acquire useful and practical skills to function within society.

2. Help students become lifelong self-disciplined, enthusiastic, organized independent learners.

3. Promote analytical and divergent thinking, intellectual risk taking and curiosity and creative problem solving.

4. Promote an understanding of diverse political, economic, geographic, social and environmental forces that shape world affairs.

5. Develop an ability to deal constructively with change and stress.

6. Provide awareness of new developments and discoveries in all disciplines.

GOAL 4

Foster awareness of the rights, duties and responsibilities of citizenship as well as respect for other cultures:

1. Encourage participation in activities which develop civic consciousness and responsibility.

2. Foster an appreciation of music, dance, visual arts, social and cultural traditions.

3. Help students learn to conserve resources and promote and appreciation for and maintenance of the natural environment.

4. Develop the skills needed to function as a citizen of one’s own culture and as a citizen of the world.

GOAL 5 

Encourage all students to benefit fully from the rich educational opportunities offered by living in Trinidad & Tobago:

1. Promote knowledge of the historical and cultural traditions of Trinidad and Tobago through activities in and out of the school setting.

2. Foster positive contacts with the Trinidad and Tobago environment in a spirit of service to the community and respect for its people.

3. Promote an awareness of students’ rights and responsibilities as residents of Trinidad and Tobago and the world.