How
Round Square schools access and leverage the potential benefits to our students of connecting with a community of likeminded schools on an international scale. We recognize that effective character education is not a series of isolated interventions, but a sustained and ingrained approach to teaching and learning that is supported, enhanced and brought to life through planned, integrated, projects, trips and adventures.
The Schools that gain the most from their Round Square Membership are those that seek to embed the Round Square themes – our IDEALS – throughout all aspects of school life. When a school’s curriculum, extra-curricular activities, pastoral care, mission and strategy are infused with the IDEALS, every interaction with other schools in the community is maximized because it has immediate resonance with core programming back-at-school.
Whilst this the utopia, we also recognize that it is not necessarily possible – or desirable – for every school. Because of this, we take a flexible approach that begins with a basic level of expectation in school culture, commitment and ethos, and invites schools to access the opportunities and resources that work for them, and does not mandate the ones that don’t.