St. Paul Orphanage School

St Paul Orphanage School aims to provide a balanced, creative education in a stimulating, safe environment through which children maximize their talents and abilities, develop a pride in their achievement and feel happy, confident and secure. The school values aspiration, belief, cooperation, creativity, fairness, integrity, resilience, respect and responsibility in all members of its community and believes in educating the whole child and preparing him or her to take role as a local national and global citizen.

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Early year’s foundation focus
St Paul Orphanage School is committed to providing high quality years education which gives children a secure and confident environment and start school life and nurture long over for learning. We realize that children develop quickly in early years and the experience between birth and five years have a major impact on their future life chances. Therefore a secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right.
Teachers in lower section must aim to understand the uniqueness in all children, ensure positive relationships, understand the uniqueness in all children and ensure learning and development to achieve their full potential.
Teachers must listen and treat children as the school role models.

Maximum care and attention must be focused on individual child to understand and exploit their strength and assist where they are weak.

Parents must be involved in the learning of their children maximally and must have time allocated to interact, participate and observe their children while in class.

Children must be escorted to school and picked where possible to ensure safety and security and must study in a safe and secure environment.

Teaching and learning styles
All class teachers must be aware that children have different preferred learning styles. Rigorous planning and dynamic teaching ensure that teaching caters for all learning styles and is adapted according to each teacher’s interest. Teaching must cater for all. Children learn best when they: are taught in an interactive and lively way that is purposeful and relevant to their needs.

Children are suitably challenged through creative, open ended tasks; take ownership of their learning; respect individual pupils’ views and feelings; are given time to reflect upon what they have learned;
Teachers are encouraged to work collaboratively; and participate in and take responsibility for their own learning and self evaluation.

All teaching should be student centered.

The school’s academic structure has been grouped into subject departments;
Subject departments have been set up led by a department head, and teachers handling particular subjects will belong to one department head, and teachers handling particular subjects will belong to one department to share schemes of work and methods of teaching, centrally set exams and Mark them to check performance and make a basis for appraisal of fellow teachers.

Department heads will hold weekly meetings to present on their activities and learning progress. Therefore each department will in turn hold a weekly meeting with his department teachers and the outcome forms a basis for HOD meetings.

All subject teachers will be required to personally present their schemes of work, lesson plans and teaching methods before the school term begins in a school planning meeting before fellow teachers and administrators. The head teacher and the school management committee, assisted by an education consultant will then approve or advise according.

Heads of departments will be required to present on particular section issues eg class and pupil sitting arrangement, class and subject requirements, and academic initiatives and seek advice from colleagues and administration where necessary.

The head of academics and HODs will together come up with the school calendar, plan the school timetable and teacher and lesson allocations will discuss and advise teaching methodology and advise on grading, they will in turn come up with analysis on subject performance.

The senior leadership team will be responsible for ensuring that the teaching and learning policy within their area of responsibility; ensuring that standards and expectations are high; maintain an overview of pupils progress through team/phase meetings to ensure pupils reach targets; discussing outcomes of monitoring with team members and rest of the school management committee, and find mechanisms to provide support for pupils not making expected progress;

The school management committee will be required to liaise with subject  leaders, and staff responsible for inclusion, to assist in the monitoring of children’s work and standards of teaching and learning; establishing and develop learning partnerships with other schools, professionals, businesses etc. to enhance opportunities for pupils and teachers.

Class teachers have a responsibility to: ensure conducive class environment, attendance, planning, assessment and delivery of the curriculum is in line with agreed school policy and schemes of work; and manage other non academic issues concerning his/her class.

All staff will be assigned a responsibility to manage different disciplines, clubs or committees, weekly duties and must comply and any other responsibilities or assignments that may be discussed and agreed with the school authorities.

Meetings: periodical meeting schedules will be agreed for all teachers and all must comply.