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COMMUNITY LIVING

Boarding schools play a very significant role in providing uniquely important opportunities for students to learn and develop beyond the academic curriculum which foster better life-skills.

With the help of numerous opportunities and greater exposure, students graduating from boarding schools become productive members of society due to their resultant emotional, social, physical, and life-skill development. Students understand the importance of their extended family as they live, laugh and learn among like-minded peers. They develop a bond, make lifelong friends, learn practical life skills and most important gain a sense of independence that will help them face the hardships of life. They make lasting friendships with students of different cultural backgrounds.  Boarding schools are a ‘home-away-from-home’, where students depend on their peer for emotional and academic support. They learn to adjust, face challenges and thus develop deep and true lifelong friendship.

Beyond the classroom, boarding school offers a sense of community. Students get ample opportunity to ‘share’. They get time to interact with each other, during their free-time and while participating in various teams, clubs and extracurricular activities. Students gain most by enrolling themselves for maximum activities and trying their hand in many fields. They get a chance to bond with students having similar interest.

Through various activities students learn to help each other, compromise, sacrifice, team work, time management, leadership qualities etc. All these qualities are very much required for a healthy relation with others in a community and enhance interpersonal skills. They learn to be accountable for their deeds and stay on the right path, in turn developing ethical habits. Boarding schools give a controlled environment to students which help in building individuals with strong characters and high moral values.

Boarding school staff, mentors and coaches act as role models for the students, who with their words and actions inspire children. They play a crucial role to instil confidence in students so that the students can deal with various situations in life with critical thinking, collaborative efforts and great communicative skills. When put together, this enables boarding school alumni to become global citizens and add immense value to society.

Simmi Gupta