Parents

 

1. As a vital unit of society, the home background and upbringing have a bearing on the child’s emotional, psychological, physical, intellectual and spiritual well-being.

2.   The inter-personal relationship of parents, siblings and other members, and the nature of their interactions have a direct influence on the child’s growth and development.

3.   It is from that the children observe, imitate and internalize the acceptable values, sentiments and attitudes.

From home they derive the essence of love and affection, mutual trust and faith. They develop regulated habits of hygiene, cultivate decent manners and actions, commit themselves to work and contribute their share to domestic responsibility.

Parental role and obligations

“Humanity’s great hope is that parents will act for the best, if they have
awareness and are on the side of the child in his development towards
freedom in work, knowledge and love.”

1.               Parents need to cultivate objectivity in accepting their children on the basis of their inner potential and provide maximum enrichment opportunities towards their betterment. More personal attention and supervisory guidance at study, rather than dependence on external tutoring would consolidate the parent-child relationship as one that is based on friendship and counselling.

 2.   Relationships of extreme authority with high expectations or permissiveness with irresponsibility develops complexities and traumas in children.

  3.   Parents should refrain from violating personal rights of their children
and instil a sense of initiative, motivation and enthusiasm to pursue their goals in this competitive world around us.

 4.   Parents should offer timely support, encouragement, love and above all discernment between freedom and lenience. Sanctions and withdrawals should be based on sound reasoning and awareness of the consequences of unacceptable behaviour, and not on punitive grounds, or on the authoritarian parenthood.

 5.   It naturally follows that a parent is a friend, a confidant, an inspirer, who should build self-esteem, confidence and critical thinking in his/her children.

 6.   A concept of time and its valuable utilization is what the parents should inculcate in the children at home. Creating time for recreation and entertainment, judicious use of TV, mobile and Internet, cultivation of independent and regulated study habits and homework completion will help to develop an integrated personality.

 7.   Parents should develop courage and ability to cope up with academic demands, with least emotional and psychological stress and accept the failures of children.

 8.   Character formation, scientific reasoning, religion and its interpretation and application to life in the correct perspective should be the foundation which parents ought to instil in their children.

 9.   Parents should instill in their children, the qualities of sharing, service empathy, compassion, sensitivity and sensibility.

 10. Timely interaction of parents with the school authorities and teachers
concerned, is necessary to maximize the child's potential and
performance.

   Note to parents regarding their Wards and their co-operation

 1.    A sound educational set up strongly recommends Parent/Teacher co-operation to establish positive discipline and personality development of every child. Therefore, the school requests the parents to work jointly with the teachers to help their children to gain the maximum from what the school offers.

 2.    Parents are expected to do their part in enforcing regularity and discipline. They should see that the children revise their lessons, and do their homework and other duties. Higher
classes should devote at least three hours study on school days and more on holidays. On a holiday or Sunday, the students should follow a well-planned time-table. For this purpose a special page is provided at the end of the calendar. Parents can meet the Principal between 3-30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. on all school days except on Saturdays.

  3.      Parents are requested to go through the reports and letters / messages sent to them by the Principal / Teacher in the calendar and acknowledge receipt of the same. Failure to do so may put their children to great inconvenience.

4.      

The progress of the pupil is tested by means of Formative Assessments and Summative Assessments. The results of these are communicated to the parents by means of progress reports issued at the completion of every cycle of assessments and Terminal examinations. As a rule, the progress report is issued about 10 days after the completion of the Formative Assessment and within a week after the re-opening of the school in case of Summative
Assessments. Parents are to collect the reports in person from the Class Teacher on the day assigned for it. Corrected answer scripts of all the subjects will be distributed to the children to go through and recheck it. Parents are requested to check and return the progress report within three days of issue of the same.

   5.      A boy / girl who loses or destroys his / her progress report will have to buy a duplicate on payment of Rs.25/- per sheet.

   6.      Generally teachers of the school are not permitted to take private tuitions. Hence no boy / girl may take private tuitions, in any subject especially from the teachers of this school without first consulting the Principal and obtaining his written permission.

  7.      Parents should check all the note books of children periodically and make sure that the written work in all subjects is up-to-date.

  8.      Parents are contacted on the telephone only in case of emergencies such as serious injury, accidents or sudden illness. Hence you are requested to update your mobile numbers.

  9.  Parents are expected to intimate to the school any change in residential address or telephone number.

   10.   Parents should refrain from :

a)       Sending anonymous letters which serve no purpose. They should meet the Principal in person to discuss the problems faced by them or their wards or to give any practical suggestions for improvement.

b)    Sending relatives or tutors or family friends to collect the reports or to meet the Principal when they themselves are asked to come in person. Visiting the school to meet the Principal or Teachers or their wards at times other than the prescribed time unless a serious situation requires such a visit.

c)          Applying for leave for their wards for reasons that do not warrant it or giving false reasons for the same.

d)      Engaging private tutors unless it is absolutely necessary to give the child extra coaching. In all such cases, the Principal should be consulted first. It has been found that children who depend on tuitions lack initiative as they depend on others for everything which is unhealthy and prevent their total development.

e)       Seeking leave for their wards except for sufficiently serious reasons and from citing wrong reasons for absence from school.

f)       Paying any tips to the school peons and helpers. (This is strictly prohibited)

g)       Sending students to the school on holidays unless there is information regarding the same from the school management.

   11.     Parents and guardians may bring any complaints they have, to the Principal and not to the teachers directly.

  12.     Parents, guardians and others shall not meet their wards or teachers during the school hours, without the sanction of the Principal. However, they can meet the teachers between 3- 30 and 4-30 p.m. daily, except on Saturdays.

  13.     Parents / Visitors are not permitted to enter the Staff Room at any time.

  14.     Failure of parents to meet the Principal or the staff members promptly whenever called upon, will be considered a serious omission.