Why SJS

St.Joseph's Hr. Sec. School, Waidhan is run by the Christu Jyoti Province of the S.A.B.S. (Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament) Congregation, are glistered charitable society in Satna catholic diocese. The school was established in 1986.The school is affiliated to the council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, NewDelhi with No objection certificate from M.P. Government. It prepares students for the ICSE course and ISC course. 

ACADEMICS FIRST

We believe that our core purpose, “To enable Students realize their potential and make their dreams come true”, can be achieved by putting Academics First. By Academics First, we focus on excellence and in demonstrable performance by our students and staff. We seek excellence in everything that we do and the chief activity of the School being Academics, we seek nothing but the best in academic performance. This is bolstered by our core values, namely Risk Taking, Openness, Ownership, Honesty, and Commitment to students and Innovation. It is not a matter of surprise that our core purpose applies not only to our main work in the classrooms, but also to how we manage, behave, communicate and interact outside the classrooms. Our curriculum is created to be consistent with the philosophy embedded in our core purpose and core values. We work towards these values being taught, instilled and reinforced in the classroom, in our classroom management practices, and in our conduct outside the classroom.

TOP TALENT TEACHERS

As it is said, any school is as good or bad as its teachers. We are conscious of the fact that it is the teacher that makes or breaks a school. At St. Joseph’s School, we ensure that our teachers are well qualified in all manners (having a degree is necessary but not a sufficient condition for a teacher to join St. Joseph’s School). We follow a rigorous selection process that involves understanding and application of pedagogy, curriculum design and delivery, classroom management, use of technology, leadership and teamwork, child psychology, human psychology and sell – development.

TEACHER DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

We believe that the teacher development is an ongoing process and it must take place round the year. To this effect, we conduct programs, workshops and events within the School and outside the school covering a variety of topics. As an illustration, a few of such programs are provided as below:

• Analysis of Assessment - Reflection & Action Planning
• Annual School Planning
• Designing Effective Assessments
• Designing & Learning by Doing Experiments Science
• Effective Lesson Planning - Lesson Plan Writers
• Effective Lesson Planning - Teachers
• Parents as Partners
• Implementing Better School Practices
• Leveraging Assessments Results for improving Learning
• New Teacher Orientation and Induction Program
• Performance Review - Filling Self-Assessment

STUDENT-AT-THE-CENTRE

Following our student-at-the-centre approach, several activities and initiatives are designed and delivered by the students at the St. Joseph’s School, keeping in mind the learning by doing approach. A few of the key activities and initiatives are outlined below:

Students of SJS reach out to various companies and apply for summer internships. Such internships give them the opportunity to see the real world. Specifically, a few of the benefits for the students are as below:

• Students gain valuable work experience in the real world of work.
• It acts as a great starting point to explore a career path.
• Helps build self-confidence by interaction with different types of persons at the internship.
• Acts as a testimony to go beyond academics by going the extra mile.
• A few of the students may also get financial compensation in the form of stipend.
• Building a professional network helps imensely in the long run.

Every year, there is a student outbound planned for students at St. Joseph’s School. It provides several life lessons in a relatively short period of time. Normally, student outbounds are hectic and at the same time fun-filled set of activities where students learn through adventure activities, experiential learning, and discussions in a safe and supportive environment. It results in unearthing the leader in each student.

St. Joseph’s School follows the concept of learning by doing and taking responsibility of own learning from early age. Hence, the concept of Student Led Conference (SLC) works well at the School. In each Student Led Conference, the students present the summary of learnings in the previous quarter or so and demonstrate through a variety of materials the progress made by them in the recent past. The key aspect determining the success of the students or the SLC is through preparation. SLC is a great initiative for our students to develop in-depth understanding or concepts and topics and develop self-confidence and presentation skills.

Sustainable Environment Activities

There are various activities that we plan to ensure a sustainable future for our next generations. Key activities planned and delivered are:

• Green day celebration
• Plantation
• Vegetation projects

At St. Joseph’s School, we look to impart education to the students in a way which leaves a minimum impact on the environment. The impact on the environment has various dimensions, the ones considered vision by us are listed below:

• Water
• Energy
• Land
• Air
• Wastage and
• Food

Certain initiatives taken up are:

• A-forestation drives, by having large plantation drives in school and community.
• Community awareness programs on garbage disposal and not littering.
• Adopting policies of no plastic usage in schools and also advocating to communities the harmful effects of plastics/promotion of alternatives.
• Water and electricity conservation and judicious use.
• Reduction of wastage of food.
• Neighbourhood outreach to underprivileged.
• Clothes donation drives.

With conscious efforts on the above, our students become socially responsible citizens who feel empathy towards others, and believe in equality, and live in the community with peace and trust among fellow humans.

Value For Money

St. Joseph’s School fee is at least 40% lower as compared the fee to any other school in similar location with similar infrastructure and facilities. We are able to achieve lower fee due to the following reasons:

• We aim to have a higher teacher utilization.
• Our staff works harder than their peers in most other schools.
• We use technology and professional development to equip our teachers become efficient.

• Most schools have 190 working days/year to 215 working days/year.
• At Indus World School, we strive to have more than 225 working days/year, at least 10% more than the average of other similar schools.

• We use smart planning and cross utilisation of resources for getting more out of less.
• While planning any activity, we take cost of the activity in mind and carry out a detailed cost benefit analysis.

• St. Joseph’s School being a national chain, there are a lot of resources that we use across locations.
• With shared resources, the cost of running the school comes down.