All the classrooms are equipped with a smart board which is used regularly to facilitate learning.
- We recognize the importance of equipping our children with the knowledge, skills and values they will need in order to operate with confidence in a complex, information-rich, globalized world. Our goal in the Junior School is to assist our children to begin the journey in becoming successful learners and creative and happy individuals, with a strong sense of community and social justice.
- We acknowledge the need for children to develop into adaptive, open-minded citizens, capable of pursuing their passions with dynamic intellectual skills, attitudes and values that encourage critical and creative thinking, and recognize that each child's early experiences shape the person that they are to become.
- The Primary School programme challenges and nurtures our grade 3 and 4 students so that they can attempt new challenges, progress at their own pace as learners, and form the kind of friendships that can last a lifetime.
Students participate in a play based learning programme that involves activities designed to develop:
- Challenging, comprehensive and high-quality curriculum promotes excellence and equity in education. The rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programmes drawn from this curriculum, addresses each child's individual learning needs, emphasizing knowledge, skills and understandings of learning areas and general capabilities designed to support 21st Century learning. This highly researched CBSE curriculum is flexible and suits children from a wide range of educational backgrounds.
- Teachers at SNS Academy use the CBSE Curriculum to develop teaching and learning programmes that build on students' interests, strengths, goals and learning needs, and address the cognitive, affective, physical, social and aesthetic needs of all the students.
- Our School provides strong educational foundations through a balanced programme of exploratory learning, as well as explicit teaching of core knowledge and skills. As your child enters Junior School, they begin their first years of formal schooling.
OUR OBJECTIVES
Providing spacious classes to enable teachers to focus on every child's individual academic needs as well as social and emotional development.
Supporting and developing their understanding of themselves and others.
Developing children's capability to communicate and express themselves effectively, to build and manage relationships, to handle challenging situations and to learn more effectively.
Developing children's knowledge and skills to interpret and use increasingly sophisticated language in their work, and to read and write for a variety of purposes and in a range of contexts.
Developing children's knowledge and skills to use mathematics confidently, to problem solve and to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully.
Working collaboratively with all the staff and parents.
Using technology effectively as a tool to research and communicate ideas.
Encouraging children to think creatively and critically in all learning areas.
Develop their core skills in English, Mathematics and Environmental Science through a well-balanced programme of teacher-directed, peer-oriented and independent activities and investigations.
Learn skills that will help them become fluent and expressive speakers, and attentive, retentive listeners.
Engage in real-life mathematical investigations and challenges by competing against themselves and others through problem-solving and interactive programs.
Receive specialist teaching in Music, Languages (English, Tamil, Hindi, French and Japanese) and Health and Physical Education, which build well-roundedness.
Students are introduced to the Keyboard as part of the school's musical instrumental programme.
Continue to learn beyond the classroom through a range of field trips and excursions.
Enjoy opportunities to give presentations and performances in class meetings and house meetings, and in large-group forums such as assemblies, etc.,
Elect and advise their own class representative on the Student Representative Council.
Students are able to participate in age-appropriate extracurricular activities and sports events (with coaching and support from dedicated sports masters).
Celebrate their achievements through a variety of classroom-based incentives and school-wide awards.
- Grade 5 and 6 are laden with new learning opportunities, and students continue to grow and flourish on their individual academic, extra-curricular with guidance and encouragement from their class teachers and subject specialists. They are motivated to extend their academic, sporting and cultural abilities.
- Our students respond willingly and well to the school's expectations of self-discipline, courtesy and diligence, and they represent their school with pride.