Sun Valley International School
Sun Valley International School
Sun Valley International School
The school years are a time for growth, challenge and discovery. At Sun Valley, we encourage and prepare students to participate fully, to take risks, to be self-advocates and to create lasting memories and relationships with peers and staff. Our goal is to provide an enriching, engaging and challenging curriculum that will prepare students for success while at school and for the years that follow. We believe that students, parents and teachers all play a vital role in helping students reach their greatest potential. Students are encouraged to take advantage of the many resources and opportunities available to them, like the libraries, computer labs, student council, peer buddies, team-building activities, school academic and athletic offerings. Parents can check academic progress regularly via our parent portal and can access information about school events on our website.
At Sun Valley, we recognize that social/emotional development is as essential to student success as academics. I also take this moment to state that active parent participation is essential to our success. Teachers provide a nurturing environment in which young adolescents can learn and thrive. Their work, in partnership with our parent community, has and will continue to support us to fulfill our school mission.
I also take this moment to express my concern over the societal phenomena in which the young are consumed today. In this mundane race to success, we often tend to ignore the grandness in little things. Often the most beautiful and precious elements are right there in front of us, but we overlook them because success today is labeled and stereotyped. We are so used to it being wrapped in a particular packaging that any abstraction from the usual turns us blind. I urge all my fellow educators to take a moment to observe the finer details of life. Success is not determined by your ability to fail but by your ability to learn. Failures become failures when we don't learn from them, otherwise it is called a lesson. The human ability to engage, look back, evaluate and bounce back with remedial measures determines its growth and prosperity. I wish for a tomorrow where children don't just strive to be successful in terms of wealth, but prosper and empower in terms of good values, thoughts and action.
Written in good faith.
Preeti Goel
Principal