Beaconhouse started in 1975 as a single school; it is now an international organisation with a presence in eight countries. In addition to our fundamental commitment to quality teaching and learning, we maintain a holistic, forward-thinking approach to education by emphasising innovation at all levels. As we continue to reinvent the educational paradigm to meet the needs of the future, we both recognise and value our own heritage. We remain conscious of our role as a socially aware organisation and believe that modern methods and attitudes, together with universal human values, can empower students to achieve their fullest potential. www.beaconhousetimes.net www.beaconhouse.net [email protected] BeaconhouseSchoolSystemOfficial BSSWorldwide Belgium | Malaysia | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines | Thailand | UAE | United Kingdom 2 How shall one describe the balanced man and woman, considered as an ideal type? He no longer belongs exclusively to a single culture, identifies himself with a single area of the earth, or conceives himself as in possession of an exclusive key to truth… He has friendliness towards people of other cultures and with the habits so engendered goes a lessening of his conceit over what is exclusively indigenous. With respect to his own region he cultivates two rules: first he cultivates every part of it to the utmost, not merely because it is near and dear, but because it can then contribute its specialties to other places and people; and second, when he finds his own region deficient in what is essential to full human growth, he reaches out, to the ends of the earth if need be, to bring into it what is missing. Lewis Mumford The Conduct of Life 3 Our Mission Beaconhouse aims to provide quality education of an international standard. We aim for excellence through quality management, quality training and quality teaching, bringing benefits to our students, the community and the wider world. 4 Table of Contents Tradition and Ambition 7 Beaconhouse Today 8 Beaconhouse Learner Profile 10 Initiatives and Achievements 12 Beyond Beaconhouse 16 The Head Office 20 The Regions and School Group Offices 22 The Schools 25 Admissions, Withdrawals and Transfers 50 School Group Offices in the Regions 58 School Locations 60 5 6 Tradition and Ambition The Beaconhouse School System has risen endeavours to be open to change, to adapt, from its modest beginnings in 1975 as Les Anges innovate and keep pace with the goals that Montessori Academy to become a major force society expects. At Beaconhouse, our aim and in the education world. With an ever-expanding belief is that through hard work and effort, base, already established in the UK, Malaysia, the students will be able to step confidently into the Philippines, Pakistan, the UAE, Oman, Belgium real and highly competitive world. We ensure and Thailand, Beaconhouse is one of the largest that they are equipped with the ability to make private school networks in the world. mature and well-informed judgements based on a clear understanding of essential principles, The Beaconhouse philosophy is epitomised concepts and moral values. This, we believe, is in the liberal and enlightened approach of the best contribution we can make towards their the extract from The Conduct of Life by Lewis development as productive members of society Mumford, the eminent American teacher, and, through them, to the country and the wider humanist and social critic. Beaconhouse values world. its heritage while it continues to reinvent its educational approach to meet the needs of the As we go to press, the student strength of future. We believe that modern methods and Beaconhouse on a global basis is just under attitudes can enable students to achieve their 109,000 (our sister network, The Educators, has fullest potential. an additional student body of almost 186,000) and we have a teacher-student ratio of around Islamic traditions towards learning are very liberal 1 to 12, a figure that compares favourably and are best illustrated by the Holy Prophet’s with international standards. Our student (PBUH) saying, ‘Seek knowledge from the body presents an unrivalled diversity in age, cradle to the grave.’ The greatest achievements socioeconomic background and nationality. in the Muslim world in the fields of medicine, philosophy, mathematics, arts and literature We are poised to extend our reach further to new occurred when the true spirit embodied in the markets across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; maxim was being followed. the latest additions and numbers can be seen on our website at: www.beaconhouse.net With the world and the needs of the community changing at an ever-increasing rate, Beaconhouse 7 Beaconhouse Today Beaconhouse caters to the educational needs of students from Pre-Nursery to Matriculation, O and A Levels and the International Baccalaureate (IB). With the advent of the Beaconhouse National University, the first liberal arts university in Pakistan, and Concordia Colleges, students can progress to college degree level within the same institution. 8 9 Beaconhouse Learner Profile The Beaconhouse Learner Profile translates our mission of benefitting students, the community and the wider world into a set of attributes essential for holistic development. The learner profile embodies values and beliefs that are essential for students to learn and grow into responsible citizens of the world. These values are consistent throughout Beconhouse’s Early Years, Primary, Middle and Secondary schools. The learner profile helps to create a community of learners who are empowered, inspired and aware. With these attributes, students are empowered to actively engage with the complex world beyond schooling – a world to which they can contribute with compassion and a sense of responsibility. Beaconhouse learners aim to be: 10 Ethical: Our school heads promote Analytical: Creative & Innovative: student accountability and an Through local and Our students aspire to informed responsibility for an Health and international curricula, generate original thoughts individual’s actions. Through our teachers facilitate and the curriculum, our students Hygiene-Conscious: and ideas which add value support students to create and teachers develop a spirit Our schools promote and to their lives in the 21st logical connections between of honesty, integrity, equality Globally Competent: support student awareness to century. Through our local ideas. Together teachers and and fairness. Through our local and ensure that all BSS students and international curricula, students strive to identify, international curricula school are able to make conscious and with the direct support heads and teachers support evaluate and solve problems decisions on healthy living. of school heads and teachers, and facilitate our students to systematically through They are actively involved BSS students draw on critically analyse and question reflections on their own in physical activities both inspirational examples from global issues through three critical thinking processes. inside and outside the human history to be creative, principles: Equity: To learn that the school, leading to heightened imaginative and innovative in increased imbalance of development of their mind, their pursuit of knowledge and understanding. income, the unavailability spirit and body. of quality education for the poor, and the digital economy are fundamentally altering the nature of employment and the right to earn a livelihood. Global & Social Cohesion: Mass migration from countries stuck in war and poverty create problems on a global scale. Through our local and international Digitally Literate: curricula teachers and students discuss the Heads of school and teachers integration of diverse groups promote the ethical use of people and ways to avoid of social media and digital the growth of extremist technology to enhance ideologies. Inquisitive: teaching and learning. BSS Sustainability: Our local Empathetic: Our students are curious teachers and students are and international curricula All BSS schools promote about their surroundings. Resolute: expected to create, share and prioritise the investigation and support good works Through our local and Our school heads and disseminate knowledge and of sustainable goals which meet the needs of the present and community service so international curricula teachers support all BSS information electronically without conceding on the our students can empathise facilitated by teachers, our students to become and to collaborate with others lives of future generations with others, ensuring the students generate knowledge dedicated, dependable, locally and internationally in the face of environmental development of a more just, leading to an enhanced resilient and unwavering through an informed degradation, climate change, caring and compassionate understanding of the world in in their quest to acquire responsible use of digital and overconsumption and world. which they live. knowledge and understanding. technologies. population growth. 11 Initiatives and Achievements 69 purpose-built campuses have been constructed experiences students have. To this end, Beaconhouse in 26 cities, offering some of the finest facilities for introduced technology-rich environments that support teaching and learning in the country. These campuses learning and provide students with ways of exploring are equipped with state-of-the-art science and that would otherwise not have been possible. computer laboratories, and media laboratories where Media Studies