Welcome to KENSRI School... Academy of Excellence

Dear Parents,

Straight from our heart to yours! You are one of the main reasons for KENSRI School's dynamism and improvement. Needless to say you and our relationship are an envy of schools. We will continue our journey to better understanding, cooperation and appreciation only by shared respect, accountability and responsibility. Parent's Understanding and Learning Schemes (PLUS ®) at the beginning of each academic year is due to the tireless, uncompromising and transparent system and process of the school. We have constantly improved PLUS ® program by structuring the system. We continue to make each tool more focused.

The purpose of the diary is to make all possible attempts for better understanding between parents and teachers. These can only be built by the following:

1. Knowing the policies and organization of the school so that you are not making requests that can crack the system.

2. To help by strongly recommending your contribution to your child made in the dairy to be a “Daily Parent”.

At KENSRI School we strongly believe that all children are made equal. We also believe that each is blessed with a special talent. Their attitude and habits first and then environment both at home and school help develop them to their potential. When KENSRI School was only 3-4 years old, we took students sent away from other schools. Parents of these students trusted us to turn them around to mould them well. We worked with them in building their values and habits. They performed well in the 10th Board examinations and are now doing well in professional colleges. So, the longer a student is at KENSRI School their values, habits and drive towards excellence will be part of their nature.

Gurukula was a traditional way for us Indians to learn the vast body of knowledge of Vedas, epics, Gita, ayurvedic system, yoga, meditation, astronomy, astrology and much more. Children were sent at an early age to be under the tutelage of a guru. The guru was the teacher. There was mutual affection, trust, commitment, dedication, discipline, humility and pride between the guru and his shishya. A Gurukula system is no longer prevalent. After that it was the joint families with grandparents who mostly inculcated right values, culture and arts. Grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts and cousins lived together and helped each other to do the best as a family. Even these joint families are waning at a time when students require greater self discipline due to innumerable distractions. So, at KENSRI School we have developed with our hearts a vision for parents to partner us for their child's development; systems for teachers to take them under their wing; content and programs that make you complete as would have been given at a Gurukula. It is for you the children to give their best to develop Guru-shishya parampara – teacher-student relationship. How do you help your children do these?

Teach them to follow:

1. Mathru Devo Bhava; Pithru Devo Bhava, Acharya Devo Bhava and Athithi Devo Bhava (mother, father, teacher and guest are God in that order);

2. Inculcate honest, humble and sincere attitude in them.

3. Let them be responsive to deadlines with their teachers.

4. To have focused daily habits including waking up early, RAP, etc. to help achieve their goals (KENSRI School has taken their goals to heart to help achieve them).

5. Finally, good eating and sleeping habits for your children.

Let us try to recapture the teacher-student relationship of the past. Think of our children in gurukulas or our soldiers for a minute. They train, eat, sleep, and learn to work as a team all with one “Maksad” (an Urdu word that can best be translated to mean “life's goal”) - to their best without distraction and with our soldiers to protect us. Can you make the children soldiers of learning – academics, sports, art and leadership? To develop a KENSRI SAAL we need a daily parent be:

KENSRI SAAL	Criteria
Inculcate CULTURE and be an ideal student.	Value: fair, firm, & benevolent
Do they have a goal that they would do anything to achieve?	Maksad: Help develop goals and achieve them each day.
Do they follow rules and everyday RAP?	Discipline: Value of right time and place
Ask them to take a bath every morning before they leave for school. It will make them feel fresh and energetic.	Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Do they understand the entire concept and simply not memorise them?	Train the most important muscle “The Brain”.
Make sure they wear clean and tidy uniform to enhance their personality.	Uniform: All are the same at school. Uniform unites for a common purpose.
Help your child complete the daily RAP before the commencement of his school day. Let him/her always be ready for a “Challenge”.	Sleep: Early to bed and early to rise. Ancient knowledge has it that the best time to learn is from 4:30 a.m.
Inculcate healthy eating habits.	Food: Fresh food is easily digested and keeps you active.
Help them tap their potential.	Excellence: To do your best.
Develop concentration – idle mind is a devil’s workshop.	Attentive: Meditation is not so much about God but about clear thinking.
Work sheets, theme challenges, assessments, self analysis for your child is aimed at understanding each concept well.	Practice: Practice makes you perfect. Try, try and try again, if you do not succeed try again.
Show them how to do better and help the teachers.	Positive peer pressure – If each student is distracted how do you expect their teacher to do her/his best?
KENSRI School RAP includes fitness and art everyday.	Fitness: A physically fit person would need less sleep and would be more active.
Make the children finish work before going out to play.	Play time: Time to relax.
Only on Sundays after all the deadlines rather than viewing anything and everything that is telecast.	TV does not help development. Let them watch selective, and meaningful programs
To improve their learning skills.	Non performance in academics
Encourage your child to become a SAAL and bring laurels to themselves, family, school and country.	Excellent performance: ‘Success breeds success’

According to Gita, it is important to do your daily duty well and not to worry about success or failure. Make everyday your best. According to our culture parents are God on earth. Be fair and benevolent and loving. KENSRI School diary entitled “THE DAILY PARENT” is specially compiled to improve “Children's Habit of Incremental Learning for Development” (CHILD). Developing the habit of daily Review, Apply and Prepare for the next day is an important cornerstone of our program.

The school's ideal is to make students develop Values; work Independently and meet their Potential. We want students to have a full fun day everyday with academics, sports, art and friendship. Short bursts of “Incremental learning” enable children to effectively absorb new information than compared to studying only for assessments. Assessment is a necessary tool for students to test themselves and for teachers to know how students have absorbed the concepts.

KENSRI School's curriculum is the most extensive around. Sports, art, leadership, and life skills towards a path of developing the right values (CULTURE), personality (ESCAPE), globally competitive (GUES), learning skills (POWER), giving back (CLASS), Excellence Corporation (talent). This curriculum along with our process of field trips, fun trips, KENFEST, curriculum games and others channel energy towards positive dimensions. Please understand the reason for each (especially life skills) and be among the many students and parents that write to us their appreciation in becoming responsible, mature, confident to face life’s opportunities.

KENSRI School discourages going to private tuitions not only because our system encourages approaching teachers (with prior appointment) to clarify concepts, but we feel tuitions make them less independent. We expect our students to learn, understand and practice each concept and manage their time to do well in sports, arts and leadership. The remedial process is built around making sure that all students are progressing nearly at the same pace. Appreciate KENSRI School for this principle rather than the often repeated habit of other schools to dismiss non performing students in order to preserve records and making classes homogenous. Our remedial is designed to improve motivation with “goal remedial” (improving the motivations of students by helping them set and achieve goals) “habit remedial” (RAP remedial conducted to ensure that the student completes the week's work.); “confidence remedial” (confidence to ask questions and speak up in class or outside) and finally “subject remedial”. We ask for parental tough love by cajoling and insisting rather than the indulgent love seen these days with cell phones, play stations, internet etc.

KENSRI School helps a parent to develop a healthy rapport by interacting with their wards and this inturn helps to develop a multi-faceted successful adult. The more time you spend teaching daily habits today, the less time you will have to spend in reprimanding them in the future. Please follow our prescriptive process for each day. Use Saturdays for yoga, fitness, catching up with missed lessons, competitions, preparing for next week by reading a chapter ahead, project work, and leadership responsibilities. In the event the student has missed a school day, ensure that they call a classmate and complete the required work. Some of the benefits of being a Daily Student are:

1. Concepts read and practiced on the same day helps retention.

2. Allows time for sports, art, friends and family.

3. Reduces stress.

4. Motivates the child.

5. Gradual and incremental learning.

6. Parents can see what kind of follow-up needs to be done each day.

7. The students will be enthusiastic learners.

8. Parent-teacher-student relationship improves and become sustainable.

9. Happy student-happy home-happy school.