OFSTED REPORT 2007

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About Us

The school mission statement positively asserts that MA Institute offers an education for life and this means "the development of the whole person, mind, body and spirit." Central to MAI then is the belief that the education provided is not only about the gaining of knowledge and the acquiring of essential skills, important though they are, but that it is also about the personal development of each individual, in its fullest sense. The fullest sense, in terms of the 1992 Schools Act, is one which includes the "spiritual, moral, social and cultural development" of each boy. At MAI the education offered is one of five closely interwoven strands. The first, which informs the others, is an Isalmic world view serving as an ever present backcloth to the ongoing life of the school.

The second is integrity and commitment where adults and young people are encouraged to value and be true to the highest ideals.

The third strand, personal relationships, is closely related to the foregoing and informed by it. This concerns adults and young people alike aiming to set, and being entitled to expect from others, good, caring standards of behaviour, marked by respect, responsibility, openness and honesty.

The fourth strand, discipline, is concerned with critical openness through which all members of the community are encouraged to develop self-discipline. Discipline is not unthinking obedience but rather about the development of positive attitudes to oneself and others resulting in self-induced responsible behaviour.

The fifth strand is developing all pupils to their fullest potential. This means encouraging and challenging the very able to develop to their fullest degree, and supporting and enabling low achieving and average pupils to value themselves and even surprise themselves through what they are able to achieve.

It is the task of the school to ensure that an adequate foundation of experience and knowledge, with opportunities for discussion, reflection and evaluation, is provided, so that pupils can be given maximum scope to develop their spiritual, moral, social and cultural dimensions.

Partnership.

The role of MA Institute, in promoting the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of boys is one of stimulus and nourishment. The school, however, realises that it does not do this by itself. It recognizes that the education of boys has been entrusted to it by parents. Hopefully parents, even if they do not share the values on which the school is built, are nevertheless in broad sympathy with them and will play their part in encouraging and supporting what it is striving to do. There is a real sense then in which the school is engaged in a partnership with parents and they will play a significant part in the development of these values in their children.

The contribution of the wider family and, in some cases the involvement in a particular faith community and in all cases the involvement with society at large will also contribute in various ways to pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.