Parent Handbook for Cosmos Primary School
Welcome to our primary school! We are delighted to have you and your child as part of our community. This handbook is designed to provide you with important information about our school's policies, procedures, and programs. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the contents of this handbook and use it as a resource throughout the school year.
Note: We will be taking inputs and feedback from parent representatives during Nurture Parent Club meetings to make changes to the format and content of this handbook, within the purview of the current school policies. Therefore, you may notice regular additions and changes throughout the academic year. If there are any other changes to school policies that may impact the information in this handbook, we will communicate them to parents as and when the policy decisions are taken.
“Life is Learning”
Cosmos Primary empowers students in a happy, safe, and stimulating environment to help them achieve their true potential in all their endeavours and foster a lifelong love of learning.
Cosmos Primary aims to create a well-structured student-centred learning environment with collaborative efforts by the management, teachers, parents and the students themselves.
The following are principles set for the school community to guide its efforts to create a positive and thriving school culture.
Learner Centred Education
Educators will be expected to use evidence-based pedagogical practices to collaborate with students in a way that will allow for student choice, self-discipline and autonomy, giving them some control and letting them decide how and what they learn. The student will be a central part of the learning process, while the teacher will play multiple roles as a guide, mentor, counsellor and facilitator.
Increased Teachers’ Professional Capacity and Leadership
To inspire excellence in educational practices and encourage active participation and informed decision-making by all the teachers in the school, they will be supported with access to resources, information and expertise for self-directed professional development and encouraged to assume roles of leadership, within and beyond the school community.
Strong School Leadership
To establish a democratic learning community, the school leadership, including the administrators and head teachers, will aim to inculcate a culture of shared goals and collective efforts in a manner that will foster a belief that leading is not restricted to formal positions but is distributed to the entire school community, including teachers, students and parents, each contributing with their diverse perspectives.
Strong Ethical and Trusting Relationships
The entire school community, management, educators, students and parents, will be encouraged to foster relationships amongst each other to nurture an environment of transparency, cooperation and trust –
relationships between management and educators to allow teachers to feel confident and secure in providing honest input and meaningful participation in the school's decision-making and its progress;
relationships between educators and students to have a long-lasting positive impact on students’ academic motivation as well as their social and emotional development;
relationships between management, teachers and parents to work together in cooperation, with a common sense of responsibility towards student achievement and school improvement.
At Cosmos Primary, we strive to nurture an ethos characterized by a culture of integrity, openness, trust, respect, inquiry, dialogue and appreciation in which all the members of the school community- administrators, teachers, students and parents- will understand and believe that “Life is Learning”
Integrity: build ethical character and moral behaviour and be honest, truthful and compassionate.
Openness: be imaginative and intellectually creative and open to new ideas
Trust: be transparent to foster collaboration for everyone to flourish
Respect: consider everyone equal and treat them with dignity
Inquiry: engage in active learning, seeking answers through research and discovery
Dialogue: have open conversations that build on knowledge, learning and effective communication.
Appreciation: recognize and acknowledge individual contributions and promote gratitude, self-esteem and positive relationships
(Verse 1) Gathered here, young minds unite, Cosmos shines so wondrous bright. In our quest for knowledge, we soar, Life is learning, that's our core.
(Chorus) Cosmos Primary, we stand tall, Together we shall never fall. Empowered in our hearts and minds, A love for learning, here we find.
(Verse 2) In these halls, our dreams ignite, Nurturing the future, shining light. With trust, respect, and hearts ablaze, We foster growth in countless ways.
(Chorus) Cosmos Primary, we stand tall, Together we shall never fall. Empowered in our hearts and minds, A love for learning, here we find.
(Bridge) Integrity, our guiding star, Openness, it takes us far. Inquiry, dialogue, we share, Appreciation everywhere.
(Verse 3) Within our hearts, potential grows, As every challenge only shows, The strength we gain, the wisdom too, Cosmos Primary, we'll pursue.
(Chorus) Cosmos Primary, we stand tall, Together we shall never fall. Empowered in our hearts and minds, A love for learning, here we find.
(Outro) So let us raise our voices high, Cosmos Primary, touch the sky. Our journey's just begun, you'll see, Life is learning, feel proud and free.