From the Senior School Principal Mr. Alexander Abraham

It was the celebrated Poet and Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot who said “For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice”. How true, for a new year has come upon us and as we take on the second semester we look forward to new voices towards further success,  of taking on tasks that are daunting but through the experience of which our children and we become far more enriched human beings and the new voices of hope and optimism.

A winter vacation after nearly 5 months of the flurry of academics and co-curricular activities of an action packed calendar was indeed well deserved and we concluded the Senior School first Semester with exams where our students have done well and set the pace for academics for the next semester.

For the first time we had the December exams for FORM 12 as a Pre Mock Practice exam as we felt that this would help prep them and work on areas for the boards. The response from both parents and students of F12 has been very positive to this new initiative.

The New Year has already seen a week of academics go by and the secondary school is all agog with the Student Council Election Fever!

Nominations and Ratifications, Campaigning, Election Speeches with promises and ideas galore has been the most prominent voice thus far in Senior School. The vivacity of creative expressions so expressively 

depicted through the Posters has added to the colour of the process. Some schools do of course nominate Council members but at Pathways we believe firmly that the process is important and not just the end. We believe that through the democratic electoral process our students can get a say into who should represent them and their views and through it learn how to be responsible voters preparing for the world.

Even as the Primary School gears up towards PYP authorization and the Middle School moves towards MYP Pilot courses, the Diploma Programme has just commenced its 5 Year Review.

This is a terrific and integral part of the IB Systems where every school that has been authorized goes through a series of self-studies matched against the IB Programme Standards and Practices to ensure that the uniform quality of teaching and learning is taking place globally where IB programmes are being

taught. This 5 Year review enables us to look back on best systems and practices and is so very synchronous with the Pathwaysian belief that excellence is continuous and is not an end in itself. What also came across to us is how quickly time has passed and it looks like just yesterday when  just over three years ago,  with             Five Year Review Workshop
great vision the Pathways group and the directors; the founding staff and students embarked upon this beautiful journey of creating young responsible citizens.

 The next few months are hectic for Senior School as the focus of course will be ever so much for Forms 10 and 12 for completion of the Internal Assessments and Coursework, for Mock exams and the final stretch of the Board Exams. I am so happy to share that our students are focussed and working hard with intense zeal for the challenge of the boards. While they do keep academic focus, the rest of Senior school is also busy with preparation for the Pathways Model United Nations in first week of Feb, the Sports Day and of course the treks in March.

Through it all, the endeavour is to enable our students maximum opportunities for learning not just in the classroom but so much in situations that are not academic. Our aim here at school is then to combine fun and seriousness and to learn to do whatever is done to the best of human ability. This we know will keep them well in life. It was Abraham Lincoln who once said, “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”  We are confident that our students with the support and belief of all of us will go all-out to do the same and succeed.

Best wishes

Alexander Abraham

Senior School Principal