Beaconhouse has announced the opening of registrations at its newest project –Beaconhouse-Newlands – through a strategic alliance with Newlands School in Seaford, England, according to the school. Spread over 7.5 acres in DHA Lahore’s Phase 6, this landmark school offers the best of both Beaconhouse and Newlands School and opens up opportunities for students including the option attending a term at Newlands School in Seaford (UK).
Beaconhouse-Newlands is positioned as an ‘Extended Curriculum School’ as school hours are from 8.00 am to 4.30 pm from Monday to Thursday and 8.00 am to 12.30 pm on Friday.
“This ensures that by the time students go home, they will have participated in their chosen sports and extra-curricular clubs and even completed their homework, leaving their evenings free,” says a teacher.
The infrastructure of the new 60-kanal campus features a number of ‘firsts’ for Pakistan including an international-sized football field, professional running track, gymnasium and horse riding, along with a five storey library “tower”, an underground auditorium seating 700 and an area called the Access Centre which is dedicated to educational advising and college placement.
Beaconhouse-Newlands provides students with a new learning experience where technology blends seamlessly into a modern, broad-based curriculum, facilitated by fully equipped classrooms and IT suites, adds the school.
Teachers combine quality teaching practices with emerging technologies to create a student-centred, flexible and self paced approach to learning.
Real-time interaction between students of Beaconhouse-Newlands, Pakistan, and Newlands School, UK, enables them to participate in projects that stem from mutual interests and address global issues.
Students who have the option to spend one term at Newlands UK will only be paying for boarding and lodging.
As part of a well-rounded education, Beaconhouse-Newlands offers an extensive extra- and co-curricular programme which includes a range of sporting activities, foreign languages, and clubs and societies with a special emphasis on the visual and performing arts. In addition, differentiated teaching and “Homework at School” policies not only allow students quality time with their families but also minimise the need for private tuition.
The school says that it prides itself on its inclusive policy for students with special educational needs.
An environment of acceptance and encouragement is developed where the ethos is caring and supportive, building on quality relationships between pupils, parents and staff. The school also offers full boarding facilities for O and A Level students.
All these combine to make the Beaconhouse-Newlands experience truly unique, says the school management.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 31st, 2011.
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