The student life in any of the Don Bosco schools is a memorable and enriching experience and this fact is vouched by the testimonies of thousands of past pupils who love to speak about Don Bosco and cherish their wonderful memories in the Salesian school of education.
The schools of Don Bosco open up for the students an arena of endless possibilities to come up in life and to drive their dreams to fulfilment.Every moment spent in a Salesian school provides the learner with an integral experience of study which is not only academically oriented but also value based.
The schools of Don Bosco focus on threefold levels of formation; the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual formation.Thus the Salesian schools truly become second homes for the pupils.
The preventive system is neither an extensive theory nor a lengthy formula, but a successful praxis, for those who want to use ‘experience’ as a medium of teaching. The Salesian schools around the world have as their characteristic feature, the preventive system, a pedagogical legacy left for us by St. John Bosco, the saint of the young.The preventive method facilitates a healthy and wholesome learning experience which imparts in the students an integral value education that prepares them to become good human beings and responsible citizens. This system rests upon three pillars, namely, reason, religion and loving kindness and these are important elements which are pertaining to the whole life situation of the student.
In our schools we impart into the students education of a class apart. The learners are given opportunities to express themselves and to find out their aptitudes and thus to be the master of their own future. Being faithful to the preventive system of education, passed on from our founder St. John Bosco, we follow a refined way of teaching by which the students are individually taken care of and loved. With the aid of visual media and other modern means of communication, the teaching becomes more enriched and attractive for the students.
Don Bosco schools pay special interest towards the establishment and running of movements like Scout and Guide, Junior Red Cross, National Service Scheme, Ncc, ishare, Good Samaritan drive, Environmental Club, especially as part of extending the vistas of education and widening its scope to a societal level. These units are animated and maintained regularly by way of meetings and training programmes so as to cultivate in the students a communitarian aspect of living. Our schools also provide the students with possibilities of attending inter-state Boscoree and other annual meets by which the students get a chance to mingle with children from other states etc.
The educative system of Don Bosco pays special attention towards the physical education of its students. As we aim at achieving a holistic formation of our subjects, adequate physical training is provided in the form of athletics, games, and various other programmes. In many of these fields Don Bosco schools bag prizes in the state and national levels.In our schools, the cultural life of the students are replenished and enriched by various literary competitions etc.
In the educative institutions of the Salesians of Don Bosco, a special preference is given to the poorer student of the locality as being faithful to our charism of serving the poorest of the poor in carrying out our educative mission. In our schools, the students themselves are encouraged to render services towards their poor companions and helping them financially and in very many other ways. This not only becomes a help for the needy but also inculcates in the students an open mindset and a humanitarian outlook.
