Lighthouse strives to:
- Develop learners who apply their rigorous education to serve God and their communities in a practical way
- Awaken learners to the potential and implications of their own relationship with God
- Create an environment for learning which enables all students to reach their full potential, valuing and developing the whole person (body, mind and character)
- Instil in our learners a lifelong curiosity and thirst for learning, with humility and wisdom
- Foster a community of learners where students and adults engage in experiential learning built upon international best practices
- Provide an affordable and accessible education for all families
- Partner with parents to promote healthy parenting, so they can equip their children to be productive members of their societies
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Lighthouse believes:
- The ultimate end of education should be for a person to better understand his or her place in God’s world and equip him or her to serve God in it.
- Great schools encourage self-directed inquiry and deduction.
- Assessments should be used by educators and learners to continuously inform them of learners’ progress and what they still need to learn, and to help them
adjust their teaching and learning. An exam should be used to improve education rather than being an end in and of itself. - A significant part of the day should be spent in physical activity, either through hands-on, experiential learning, play, the arts, or exercise.
- Effective education should create lifelong learners who ask questions, identify problems and potential solutions and who have a love of learning.
- Teaching methods should recognise and accommodate children’s developmental levels, and should differentiate between different types of learners in the group.
- Insofar as possible, students should be in contact with creative and engaging texts as well as primary sources, either in place of or to enhance a standard textbook.
We aim, through careful instruction and personal demonstration, for these Six Core Values infuse everything our staff and students think, say and do:
Affiliations
Lighthouse is:
- A member school of the International Primary Curriculum (IPC).
- An international member school of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI).
- A Candidate for accreditation (expected 2025) with ACSI Middle State Association – Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS).
- An approved centre for both Pearson-Edexcel (UK) (the first secondary school in Mauritius to be approved as such).
- An approved centre for the College Board (USA) for invigilation of the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
- Is fully registered as a pre-primary, primary and secondary school in good standing with the Ministry of Education of Mauritius.
- Is in support of the educational aims of the African Leadership Network.
- Child Safety Protection Network
