Guiding Statement

MOTTO: “Tofamamao Atamai Faautautaga”

VISION STATEMENT: Achieving success through educational excellence

MISSION STATEMENT: To provide an inclusive and engaging learning environment for our students that:

Develops confidence and leadership;
Fosters positive relationships;
Encourages innovative and creative thinking;
Acknowledges and celebrates our unique Samoan culture and context; and
Prepare them for their next journey.

OUR VALUES & PRINCIPLES:

RESPECT / FA’AALOALO
WISDOM / TOFAMAMAO
INTEGRITY / FA’AUTAUTAGA
COMPASSION / AGAALOFA
KNOWLEDGE / ATAMAI

PHILOSOPHY / OBJECTIVES

The primary concern of the Robert Louis Stevenson School is the educational development of the students. The development of the individual child’s abilities, both academic and social, is the basic rationale of education in the school. The school attempts to achieve the fullest development of the individual in a cooperative atmosphere where the rights of the school body, as well as of the individual are respected.

The school upholds the right of its students to a broad, secular education which will prepare them to participate fully in society as adults.

Robert Louis Stevenson School sets out to create conditions in which students:

Will experience success year after year in school tasks and personal living;
Are prepared to go on to the higher education and / or work world and experience the satisfaction of effective adulthood;
Are encouraged to develop their general and individual special potentials; and
Are prepared to continue learning throughout their lifetime.

With this philosophy in mind the following are the objectives of an RLSS education:

To maximize the opportunities for learning for each student so that each achieves the highest standard of which he/she is capable in a learning environment which embodies mutual respect and cooperation;
To develop the necessary oral, literacy and mathematical skills to the best of each student’s ability;
To provide opportunities that will promote physical fitness and health;
To encourage a child-centered approach to learning;
To cater for special learning needs;
To provide varied educational resources;
To provide a broad and stimulating curriculum;
To endeavour to maintain a cordial and constructive relationship with the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture (MESC).

(RLSS: Policy & Procedures Manual)

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:

To maintain a high academic standard that:

Delivers a broad curriculum that draws from various teaching methods, with English and Samoan as the languages of instruction;
Offers the students opportunities to develop lively, enquiring minds and independent thinking;
encouraging participation in co-curricular activities;
Identifies and meets the needs of students, except when student(s) special educational needs cannot be met within the school’s resources;
Keeps abreast of trends in education and ensures that the curriculum remains relevant and dynamic.
Provides opportunities and encouragement for the professional development of staff;

To promote positive personal values that:

Cultivate integrity in students;
Prepare students to become responsible, creative, self-reliant and productive members of the global community;
Encourage effective teamwork;
Foster a lifelong love of learning.

To ensure understanding of and respect for diversity that:

Provides students with opportunities to share their cultures to promote ‘understanding of each other’;
Promotes knowledge and understanding of Samoa;
Promotes respect for other cultures, beliefs, nationalities, gender and persons with different abilities.

To develop a positive educational facility that:

Provides a nurturing, secure, clean and friendly learning environment where students can grow intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically;
Provides sufficient resources to create and maintain a stimulating learning environment.

To promote understanding of and participation in global concerns that:

Encourage students to regard the natural world as their inheritance and their responsibility;
Recognise the need to protect and sustain the local and global environment;
Fosters a fundamental understanding of and respect for the rights and freedom of each individual in our community and the wider world in the spirit of the UN Declaration of Human Rights;