{"id":3385,"date":"2024-03-14T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/?page_id=3385"},"modified":"2024-03-16T21:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T21:31:03","slug":"student-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/student-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If you ask the question \u201cWhat\u2019s the purpose of Primary School?\u201d, many people would respond with comments about providing children with foundational knowledge such as skills in reading and writing, teaching children about the world around them, and perhaps even simply to prepare children to function as productive members of society. All of these are important aspects of education, but at St. Xavier\u2019s Private School we include another fundamental aspect of education that is at the very core of everything we do.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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We believe that religious instruction is an essential component of education.\u00a0 Indeed, education is unbalanced without it.\u00a0 As such, life at St. Xavier\u2019s begins and ends with prayer.\u00a0 We celebrate important feast days, and prepare our Catholic students for their first confession and first holy communion.\u00a0 Yet, in recognition of our multi-ethnic and ecumenical population, we hold to the basic principles of love, acceptance, and community.<\/p>

Our focus is on promoting spiritual, moral, social, and cultural development in all our students.\u00a0 To accomplish this, we include a wide variety of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that are designed to address the physical, aesthetic, spiritual, and intellectual development of our students.\u00a0 For further information on our comprehensive curriculum, please visit the\u00a0Academics<\/a>\u00a0page.\u00a0 Keep reading to find out about the various extra-curricular activities that enhance our students\u2019 lives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Every student is encouraged to engage in at least two extra-curricular activities, and we offer many options to select from: uniformed clubs such as Girl Guides, Cub Scouts and the Red Cross, and several opportunities for our students to develop themselves physically. Many choose gymnastics, football, swimming, and dance, while others prefer martial arts, lawn tennis and archery. Combined with our physical education programme, these activities contribute to the body-mind-spirit balance we strive for in our students.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Very often, a child\u2019s emotional health takes a second and sometimes third place in the list of priorities at school.\u00a0 However, researchers suggest that emotional health is crucial to our happiness and how we experience life.\u00a0 There is also evidence which shows that when children feel good about themselves and each other, they learn better and academic results improve.<\/p>

We have, therefore, adopted a programme called \u201cZippy\u2019s Friends\u201d which seeks to teach children how to identify and talk about their feelings, to say what they want to say, to listen attentively, to ask for help when necessary, and how to cope with difficult and new situations.\u00a0 Rather than telling children what to do, this programme encourages them to think for themselves and to come up with their own solutions; a skill which will certainly serve them throughout their lives.\u00a0 We agree with the former chair of Partnership for Children, the UK based organization which promotes Zippy\u2019s Friends, when he says \u201cIf we can teach young children how to cope with difficulties, they should be better able to handle problems and crises in adolescence and adult life.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Caring for our fellow man is a fundamental aspect of love, respect, and community which we impart to our students in a variety of ways.\u00a0 At Christmas time, rather than exchanging gifts in our classrooms, students buy and wrap toys which are then donated to orphanages.\u00a0 From time to time, our choirs also perform for senior citizens and patients at the children\u2019s hospital in Mt. Hope.\u00a0 And, once a month, we collect donations for the needy or sick.\u00a0 This, we believe, helps our students appreciate their good fortune while allowing them to show compassion for the less fortunate members of our society.<\/p>

Our goal is to support the development of each child in our care, in ways which will benefit them and society.\u00a0 We instill in them a sense of responsibility and accountability for their actions.\u00a0 Our Environmental Warden system is evidence of our work in this area. Not only is this select group of children charged with monitoring their classmates in keeping the school environment clean, they are also responsible for bringing unruly behaviour to the attention of teachers and the principal.\u00a0 This system is different from the class prefect, who is responsible for the classroom.\u00a0 Environment Wardens function during lunch and break time, and up to one hour after school is dismissed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Life is never dull at St. Xavier\u2019s.\u00a0 Our calendar of events is often quite full, and it is only through the creativity and dedication of our staff and committed parents that we are able to completely enrich the lives of all our students.\u00a0 From pan festivals, to concerts, to bazaars and exhibitions, our students are allowed to express themselves in productive ways.\u00a0 Visit our photo gallery<\/a>\u00a0to see some of the exciting activities and exhibitions of student work.\u00a0 Add to these items field trips and our monthly House Notes which encourages excellence in academics, and you realize that student life at St. Xavier\u2019s is an experience that every student remembers fondly for many years after they leave us.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Student Life at St. Xavier\u2019s If you ask the question \u201cWhat\u2019s the purpose of Primary School?\u201d, many people would respond with comments about providing children with foundational knowledge such as skills in reading and writing, teaching children about the world around them, and perhaps even simply to prepare children to function as productive members of … Continue reading “Student Life”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3385\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stxavierstt.com\/testing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}