SYNOPSIS
- Mars Academy helps students develop a strong academic foundation, along with well developed learning skills.
- Standardized tests are used to measure academic progress.
- Mars Academy provides a flexible, pressure-free environment.
- Students are valued, respected, and heard.
- Students are provided opportunities to think for and express themselves.
- There is an equally strong emphasis on personal growth and development, relating with others, and understanding of place in the world - leading to life-long success, achievement, and personal satisfaction.
- Mars Academy helps students to become contributing members of society, through conscious education and community service programs.
- An appreciation for individual differences and similarities enrich our inclusive, supportive community.
- While individuality is respected and fostered, individuals are brought together to function as a group, and are guided to function successfully in, and contribute to, society.
- Care and concern for each other, our school, our community, and our world are woven into the fabric of Mars Academy.
- Students do not just learn facts, but become able to apply knowledge and skills to the world outside.
- Mars Academy recognizes that children develop at different rates.
- Mars Academy sees each student as a whole child - with cognitive, physical, social, emotional, artistic, and spiritual needs and potential.
- Mars Academy is challenging where needed, and provides a helping hand where needed.
- Students become:
- creative & analytical problem solvers
- confident & clear communicators
- compassionate & responsible citizens
- Students become life-long learners with a love of learning and an ability to go beyond.
