JESUIT OR IGNATIAN VIEW

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JESUIT OR IGNATIAN VIEW

• Jesuits will continue to be the Sponsoring Body
  of the Wah Yan Schools.
• We will follow our Mission and School Goals

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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

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• Whose acquisitions of knowledge and skills is
  joined to values.
• Who will become reflective and will accept their
  strengths and limitations.
• Who know Gods love and practise Christian values
  especially through serving the poor and working
  for justice.

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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.
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School Goals

• 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.

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• To build a schools community in which teachers,
  students and non-teaching staff have a spirit of
  mutual respect and co-operation.
• 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.

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• To give our students a solid moral formation
  which will enable them to lead their lives in
  accordance with sound principles.
• To encourage our students to be
  independent-minded in their search for knowledge,
  while being open to learning from the opinions of
  others.

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• 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.
• 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.

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3. Continue to Promote and put into practice

• Characteristics of Jesuit Education and
  Ignatian Pedagogy Using experience, reflection,
  action and evaluation.

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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

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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

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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

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• Try to develop Leadership among our teachers.
• Provide opportunities for Catholic Teachers to
  get further training in Theology, Scripture,
  Morality and Spirituality.

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• Promote closer union between the 2 schools
  closer union with Past Students and Present
  Students and with Parents
• WAH YAN ONE FAMILY

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• To Link with the Jesuit Schools in Asia and
  Jesuit Universities and Schools worldwide.
• WORLD UNION OF
• JESUIT ALUMNI/AE

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• Develop a deeper knowledge of China, Chinese
  Language and Literature, Culture, History and
  Traditional values.
• To seek ways in which we can share and help
  poorer areas in China.
• To Men For and With Others