We believe that each student is an individual with special interests and the ability to learn and experience success. We believe that academic growth and social maturity go hand in hand to create lively inquiring minds. Although all students pass through development stages, they progress at various rates through learning and being influenced by various experiences.

Our aim is to provide the education and atmosphere which will create individuals with the ability to question, research, acquire understanding, knowledge and skills. Having developed a sense of self-respect and self-discipline, and the ability to live full lives as independent, self-motivated adults, they will become, without doubt, contributing members of society.

We adhere to the view that students are happiest in a properly ordered community where high standards of both work and behavior are clearly understood. By providing the best possible teaching environment -staff and facilities- within a disciplined framework we strive to attain mutual respect between all parties concerned and a sense of belonging to our school community.

At ASA we employ teachers and administrators who are committed to the highest standards of their professions and who, as a team, work together in an organized way towards our mutual goal.
 

Aims and Objectives

Starting with the Kindergarten, the aim is to create a well-ordered community with a home-like atmosphere and opportunities for each child to develop and progress individually in the basic skills of language, literacy and numeracy. The school seeks to develop the gifts and potential of each individual and to bring each pupil to the highest standard of which he or she is capable. We are concerned with his or her emotional, aesthetic and practical aspects as well as with the intellectual and physical ones.

Basically, we are aiming to:

1. Develop lively inquiring minds, the ability to question, to argue rationally and to apply themselves to tasks.

2. Acquire understanding, knowledge and skills relevant to the needs of adult life, at home, at work and at leisure in a fast changing world.

3. Help pupils develop personal moral values, respect for different cultures and religious values and tolerance of other values and ways of life.

4. Help students understand the social, economic and political order of the world;

5. Help students achieve the sense or responsibility and self-respect which are, we believe, the basic requirements for freedom.

6. To develop in students the ability to follow principles of logic through rational thinking, problem solving and the search for knowledge.

7. To help each student maintain a positive self-concept and a willingness to engage in constructive self-criticism.

8. To help students discover their interests and/or talents in the areas of physical fitness, art, music, recreation and public relations and appreciate human achievements and aspirations.

9. Develop a sense of respect and the capacity to live lives as independent, self- motivated adults with the will to share in and contribute to society.

10. To develop a concern and respect for the environment and a sense of being a part of the whole world.

11. To develop an understanding of their cultural heritage and appreciate the learning opportunities being offered to them.

12. Teachers design and manage the learning atmosphere. Consequently, they are the role models. As teachers, they are concerned not only with the education of the child but with his social, emotional and physical needs, and a prime responsibility at all stages is to create an environment which is orderly and friendly.