Expectations

Social Wellbeing: 

Group learning methods help in building peer group interactions. 

Roles in groups help in giving equal opportunities to every child. 

Regrouping techniques help in large group interactions. 

Small group classrooms help the teacher in individual and group monitoring. 

Children are taught to respect diversity and differences in learning. 

Empathy, respect and inclusiveness is the ethos of each classroom.  

Children are taught to respect oneself and others. 

Bullying is prohibited and the same is carefully monitored.  

Emotional Well being: 

Soft spoken culture and positive interactions of the school helps in preventing fear or intimidation.

Every child is assured of support and help in all situations. 

Physical Well being:

In School buses: Every bus has a senior student as a Captain and teachers as guides and ayahs as supporting hands. A Buddy system is in place to take care of the little children. 

In School Campus: Security staff, watchful team, safe corridors and safe places ensure physical safety.  

Beating, hurting or bullying are strictly prohibited and also punishable. 

In Eating Habits:

Eating is a biological need of humans. If a child does not recognise hunger or does not know how much to eat to fill a hungry stomach, we are not educating the child with primary responsibility. Therefore, OWIS believes in independent eating habits.  Also, no healthy child stays hungry.  Healthy eating habits are taught at home. 

In school: 

Students are encouraged to be independent in eating and cleaning up.  

In Early Years, ayahs will help set up the boxes but not in feeding. 

Teachers also eat in class and remind children to eat well and on time.  But they do not hover around children to make them eat. 

Healthy foods are encouraged. 

Quality is more important than quantity. 

In Learning Habits: 

If eating is a biological need, learning is a natural need. No child should be made to feel that learning is an obligation towards parents, teachers or school. Learning is a personal empowerment which every child should be made to see.  

In School: 

Acorns are taught to be independent, principled and responsible for their reading, writing and learning. 

Learning experiences are created through various strategies. And we wait to watch the outcome in the child. 

Both the pace and space of the child are recognised and respected. 

No comparisons are made, and every acorn is encouraged to be better than before. 

Homework:

A child should grow up with the idea that 'my work, I have to do'. 

It is not reminders or threats which should make a child do homework but self-responsibility. 

School teaches 'Swadharma', which means self-responsibility.   

Parents should encourage children to do work on their own.  

OUR BIRTHDAY POLICY

Children are allowed to wear colourful attire on their birthdays. While we acknowledge the student birthday, we do not encourage any celebration at school and refrain from distributing any  sweets/ gifts/ goodie bags to classmates or teachers  in school.  As a special gesture, the school gifts each child a book. On this occasion, parents have the option to contribute by gifting books for the class library or a plant, promoting a love for reading and environmental awareness. 

"Find richness in simplicity" implies a lifestyle with minimal expenses and optimal positivity. Our school promotes a culture that values relationships, happiness, health, and positive progress. As Mother Teresa once said, "Live simply, so that others may simply live". This quote beautifully encapsulates the essence of our philosophy. 

We believe that extravagant possessions, grand celebrations, and materialistic pursuits should not overshadow the importance of compassion, humility, and service to others. 

What truly matters is what resides between our ears (our brains), what lies in our hearts, and the difference we make in the world. Possessing expensive material items is not as important as our inner qualities and the impact we have on others. 

Any form of showmanship is strongly discouraged within the school. The principle of "simplicity" is embraced in all aspects of our school practices. We encourage parents to understand and respect the school's philosophy, which is grounded in the values expressed by Mother Teresa's powerful quote.