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
empathy, 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 dialogue and co-operation in general, and for Peace.
