An Introductory Thought (Kevin Purday, Principal)

The whole concept of education has undergone radical change in the last twenty five years. Some of those changes are good --- the emphasis on individual needs is an example. Others are at best debatable --- the reduction of teaching until it becomes almost a cramming process aimed solely at achieving examination grades comes to mind.

At SRIS we maintain an emphasis on education as an holistic process. We do not teach minds; we educate people. We believe strongly that every student, whether extraverted or introverted, has talents. Those talents may be in literature, dance, sport, science, mathematics, languages, etc. but wherever they are to be found, we will assist every student to discover them and develop them to the full.

Education is not value-free. Everything we do has a value although sometimes it is implicit rather than obvious. At SRIS, we are aware that we are instilling values by everything we are, do and say and also by those things which we are not, don’t do and don’t say.

Kevin M. Purday
(Principal)