Message from the Principal
THE PRINCIPAL’S VISION STATEMENT There can be no question about the fact that education is the cornerstone of human development, the strongest pillar to ensure the survival of our planet. As a lifelong teacher as an educationist, I have witnessed the marvel of a young mind absorbing a new idea, grasping a new concept or solving a new problem. Education is not a preparation for life! Children must be exposed to situations which will enable them to find for themselves, not in their adult life, but also to contend with the fears and frustrations, the joys and excitements of their daily lives. Shaping young, impressionable minds is one of life’s biggest challenges. At St. Stephen’s School, Karimpur, we aim to empower our students to grow as individuals with strong open discerning minds with a perspective, to prepare them to make a future.
Our distinctive academic programmes and innovative teaching methodologies encourage students to develop critical-thinking and learn through enquiry and reason, to exchange thoughts and ideas, to develop key personal and social values, to take ownership for his/ her choices and to set goals to realize their own unique potential. Authentic education implies an on-going, continuous interplay between the five moments of context, experience, reflection, action and evaluation between parents, students and teachers. This is not to lead to mere information but to appropriation, integration into the very activity of God within the created reality of our world but especially within each person. This then leads from information to transformation.
We strive to provide an environment that is basically sacred, and has a framework of discipline that is flexible yet supportive, a freedom that allows students to learn even from their mistakes, to develop into person moulded by the correlatives of freedom and responsibility. I wish to thank Our Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Subrata Chakrabarty, Bishop of Barrackpore and President of GBFB, for all his constant guidance, support and advice to make our school to grow each day and help it to accomplish its dream. I wish to convey my gratitude to the parents, guardians, students, teachers and well wishers of the school for all the support, encouragement, co-operation and understanding. I am confident that St. Stephen’s School, Karimpur will rise to greater heights of achievements in the years to come. This school educates and channelizes our students’ aspirations to be fulfilled. In the present and promising years ahead.JOHN STEVENS GUPTA
PRINCIPAL,
St. Stephen’s School Karimpur