Lumbini World School

Introduction

Lumbini World School, located between the two large cities—Butwal and Bhairahawa—is an activity-based learning centre of Lumbini Province. The school stands in the sacred place which consolidates the significance of the birthplace of Gautam Buddha—Lumbini. So, LWS is proud to offer the life-changing education from the place where Gautam Buddha spread his eternal knowledge and insightful teachings across the globe.The school’s motto is to redefine the teaching and learning mechanisms and to bring academic breakthroughs to conquer the existing traditional educational trends, such as rote learning, textbook-centered teaching, conventional teaching practices, lack of proper evaluation and feedback of the students, to name a few.We proudly aim to be the pioneering educational institution in Nepal based on our unique style of teaching and providing our students with world-class educational facilities. LWS serves students from Pre-School to Grade- 10 who will find our 5E Teaching and Learning Model convincing, engaging and progressive. In addition to our general programmes, we also offer multi-dimensional skill building opportunities to the students who require support from skilled teachers and mentors to acquire post-secondary education prospects, career opportunities, and independent life.All the students at LWS have access to small class sizes, specialized instructions and individualized academic support. In addition to maintaining a rigorous academic programme focused on college and career readiness, we also provide our students with explicit instructions on social-emotional learning, self-regulation, and executive functioning skills. We enable students to be engaged in a wide range of exciting and engaging co-curricular and extracurricular activities so that they thrive on their learning endeavours and eventually achieve an appealing career. LWS welcomes inquiries and referrals from the parents, guardians and community agencies. Our highly qualified team is dedicated to working collaboratively to meet the unique needs of each student we accommodate. Our ambition is to establish LWS as a globally acclaimed learning centre through the educational service to inquisitive, pioneering and global minded generations who will be able to invent, innovate and compete globally.

Our Mission

We take PRIDE in ourselves, our school, and our community. Our mission is to nurture each student's potential for life-long learning and the development of good character by providing a safe academic atmosphere and effective guidance. We have the POWER to succeed. We PERFORM to our highest potential every day.

Our Vision

Lumbini World School is a dynamic community of curious learners and explorers. We encourage and empower every student to reach his/her potential through our value-based and innovative approach to education in a safe, secure and nurturing environment. Our expectations of a reciprocal commitment to excellence among staff, parents and students are high, and we uphold our commitment with concrete action. LWS seeks to recognize the individual strengths and needs of each student in order to foster social, emotional and academic growth. Therefore, our commitment to partnering with families and local organizations is steadfast which will ensure the formation of a collaborative community geared towards the success of our students.

Our Commitments

In LWS, we are committed to ensuring a quality education with 21st century focused on holistic developments of every child. We take responsibility for these commitments and hold ourselves accountable for results.We are working to create a culture of collective responsibility with our educators and support teams – as well as our families, students and our community – to ensure that Every Child Succeeds. To make this ‘culture shift’ a reality, we are dedicated to providing students focused learning environment with individual behavior supports needed to achieve success for all students. We also offer families with opportunities to be a part of the school community through volunteer projects, family committees and community events.We believe that great people are the key. Our kids with the highest needs deserve the very best leaders and teachers every step of the way. LWS aims to be a strong foundation for success. Our team will be working every day to provide the most impactful supports for whole child development, including essential safety nets for kids, interventions or social-emotional supports.We believe in ensuring best first instruction, so that every student makes learning gains in every lesson. We also recognize the need to address the issue of equity so that all LWS students have the opportunity to reach their goals.In particular, our commitments will be centered on the following points:Lumbini World School is committed to launch a new Program each year for our students as part of our Continuous Improvement PolicyFor the children's welfare we are committed to be driven by the following policies that are established under our main policy guidelines: Child safeguarding policy, attendance policy, bus regulation, student teacher relationship, anti bullying policy, behavior rules, camping and trip rules and discipline, playground rules, anti-vandalism policy, disciplinary procedure, examination rules and academic honesty policy, baseline assessment policy, students reward policy, electronic gadget and others prohibited items policy, Student’s potential recognition policy dress code and proper grooming policy and finally home learning policy.We are committed to imprinting the Inquiry-based 5E model Teaching Learning Practice in every aspect of Lumbini World School.Professional Development Programs are offered to our faculties in a regular basis.Evidence Based Progress Report of the children is provided based upon their performance.At LWS sensitively designed classrooms offer various learning stations such as IT, mini library, hands-on activity corner and other world-class state-of-the-art platforms per teaching lesson requirements.Last but not least, we are committed to make sure that LWS will be the best activity-based learning center in Lumbini province and very soon we aim to be one of the top ten exclusive center for activity-based teaching and learning institutions in Nepal.

Curriculum Overview

At LWS, we are continuously developing our curriculum to meet the needs of all students through academics and social-emotional learning. Our core curriculum is based on our own esteemed National Curriculum of Nepal. In addition to that, we will be accommodating the 21st-century demand teaching/learning approach with state-of-the-art educational tools and human resources that are available at the national and international levels. We have adopted widely accepted internationally student-centered approaches of Teaching- Learning Practices based on the inquiry-based 5E model which will help the students to integrate their learning in a world-class approach. Classroom instruction and assessment go hand in hand and create opportunities for the students to co-construct criteria, goal set, self-reflect, and assess their learning.Engagement (shown in the diagram)ExploreExplainElaborateEvaluateLWS offers a modern teaching-learning approach that balances classical roots with a contemporary awareness of our responsibilities as global citizens. We stand on the following teaching methodologies:Lessons are made more exciting and engaging through field trips, outdoor sessions, and workshops to help a child to achieve their full potential.Students are placed into different groups based on their intrinsic potential and interest and a wide range of ECAs are offered.English literature classes are taught by native-like English speakers for grades 4 to 10.Unconventional Home Learning Activities are designed to foster parent-child quality time at home as well as to promote children’s effective participation in their study.TFW (talk for writing), a recently developed interactive way of teaching English literature is introduced and practiced in the English language classes.The EAL (English as an Additional Language) team works rigorously in grades 1, 2 and 3 to ensure a strong foundation in the English Language.Each class will have a full-time teacher and teaching assistant throughout the lesson.A wide range of indoor and outdoor resources are used as a teaching aid to facilitate every student’s need in each lesson.Teaching materials are not necessarily directly taught from the textbooks. A variety of resource materials will be used to cover all the aspects of the lesson. Each lesson is prepared such a way that inculcates inquiry-based learning followed by rubrics for each topic.Grade Teaching Practice in grades 1, 2 and 3; i.e., Core subjects are taught by a single specialised teacher.

Our Vision

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