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Our mission at Green School is to deliver a generation of global citizens
who are knowledgeable about and inspired to take responsibility for the
sustainability of the world.
We do this by:
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Emphasizing
'learning by doing';
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Placing
great weight in developing social responsibility;
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Appreciating
integrity, honesty, ethics, and compassion as core underlying values;
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Recognizing
the importance of a holistic education.
Through a Curriculum which:
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Develops the
essential skills, of reading, writing, mathematics and science to a high
degree
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Has a Green
aspect which evolves from nature to ecology to environment to
sustainability through a 'getting your hands dirty' and 'getting mud
between your toes' approach;
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Recognizes
and celebrates the local geographical and cultural and artistic context;
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Is based on
continuity and progression
The aims of our Green Studies Curriculum are:
 To
nurture respect for
and understanding of
the natural world
To
heighten students'
environmental
awareness and to
promote stewardship
To
develop ecological
values out of first
hand experience
To understand and practice permaculture (the harmonious integration of land
and people to provide food, shelter, energy, and other materials and
non-materials needs in a sustainable way.) This includes on-campus food
gardens, aquatic systems, appropriate technologies, awareness of waste and
water usage and employing management systems, rice agriculture, and animal
care, learning from local community members, and designing with renewable
natural resources such as bamboo.
To view school and offer a curriculum which is holistic - integrating all
aspects of the child's nature, multiple intelligences, and curiosity for
learning - through a hands-on practicum model which is part of an
academically rigorous learning program; in a school where classrooms are
integrated into the natural and permaculture environment (eco-literacy.)
To understand sustainability as an entire web of relationships in community,
interacting with other communities - human and non-human - in ways that
enable them to live and develop according to their nature.
To think in terms of relationships of inter-connecting patterns and contexts
(systems thinking)
To collaborate with members of both the school community (mentorship
program) and with the wider local community (apprenticeship program.)
To integrate subject matter such as science, mathematics and social studies,
contextualizing academic disciplines in meaningful experiential projects.
To foster in our students a love for learning about themselves, each other,
and the wider world community in ways which are respectful, have depth of
understanding, and compassionate coexistence.
To instill pride, responsibility, and cooperation among students as
life-long learners and future leaders in the world.
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