Transcript jesuit or ignatian view

JESUIT OR IGNATIAN VIEW
1. Jesuits will continue to be the
Sponsoring Body of the Wah
Yan Schools.
2. We will follow our Mission and
School Goals
School Mission Statement
• According to our Catholic and Chinese
traditions, we aim at the greater
development of each student in each of
the following areas – moral, intellectual,
physical, social; aesthetic and spiritual.
Through care and concern for each
individual, we seek to nurture students:
a) Whose acquisitions of knowledge and
skills is joined to values.
b) Who will become reflective and will
accept their strengths and limitations.
c) Who know God’s love and practise
Christian values especially through
serving the poor and working for
justice.
The achievement of the above
relies on a spirit of community,
co-operation, trust and respect
among the managers, supervisor,
administrators, teaching and
non-teaching staff, students,
parents and past students.
School Goals
1) To form students who are aware of
God as the Father of all and who thus
see all men as their brothers, giving
them at the same time the
opportunity to know Christ. To help
those who already believe in Christ to
come to a deeper appreciation of their
faith.
2) To build a schools community in which
teachers, students and non-teaching
staff have a spirit of mutual respect
and co-operation.
3) To develop in our students a desire to
work for a just society, and to teach
them to be generous in placing their
knowledge and competence at the
service of others, particularly the
disadvantaged.
4) To give our students a solid moral
formation which will enable them to
lead their lives in accordance with
sound principles.
5) To encourage our students to be
independent-minded in their search
for knowledge, while being open to
learning from the opinions of others.
6. To foster the emotional development of
our students, thereby helping them to
appreciate their abilities as well as their
limitations, and to get on well with
others.
7. To encourage our students to know and
appreciate their own culture and to help
them to develop the ability to express
themselves in Chinese and English
correctly, clearly and elegantly.
3. Continue to Promote
and put into practice:
“Characteristics of Jesuit
Education” and “Ignatian
Pedagogy” Using experience,
reflection, action and evaluation.
Examples :
17th – 23rd November, 2004
3 Teachers from each of the Wah
Yan schools will participate in a
Spiritual Formation Programme in
Manila, with other Jesuit schools in
East Asia called “A Framework for
Christian Living”
14th – 15th January 2005
10 Panel Chairmen from each school
will participate in a workshop in
Hong Kong:
“Ignatian World View; Values and
Questions for Education”
17th January and 19th
January 2005
Staff of Wah Yan Hong Kong (17th)
Staff of Wah Yan Kowloon (19th)
Programme:
“Profile of a Teacher in
a Jesuit School”
4. Try to develop Leadership
among our teachers.
5. Provide opportunities for
Catholic Teachers to get
further training in Theology,
Scripture, Morality and
Spirituality.
6. Promote closer union between
the 2 schools; closer union
with Past Students and Present
Students and with Parents:
“WAH YAN ONE FAMILY”
7. To Link with the Jesuit Schools
in Asia and Jesuit Universities
and Schools worldwide.
“WORLD UNION OF
JESUIT ALUMNI/AE”
8. Develop a deeper knowledge of
China, Chinese Language and
Literature, Culture, History and
Traditional values.
9. To seek ways in which we can
share and help poorer areas in
China.
10.To “Men For and With Others”