General Information

1. The Society of Pilar

The Society ot the Missionanies of sc imrancis navier alias 'The Society of Pilar' is an indigenous Roman Catholic Organization founded in Goa in 1887 by Fr. Bento Martins. The sole aim of the Society is to share the Gospel of true human well being as proclaimed by Jesus Christ. Initially, the activity of its members was confined to the boundaries of Goa and its surrounding areas. However, in 1939, che Society received a new thrust and vitality, and from then on its members ventured to work far and wide in different parts of India, zealously spreading the Gospel values.

One of the focuses of the Society's work has been the field of education. Today the Society of Pilar has about 60 Residential Units and counts about 400 members working in several parts of India from Jammu in the north to Chennai in the south, from Gujarat and Mumbai in the west to far off Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east. and even abroad. The Society runs Schools and Colleges and several Hostels and Orphanages, besides engaging in other social welfare activities.

2. Kaverian Educational Society

The Educational Institutions of Goa Province come under the umbrella of Kaverian Educational Society (XES) based in Goa. Fr Agnel Central School is a Catholic Institution, run by the Xaverian Educational Society (a society registered under the Sociery's Registration Act of 1860 as a minority institution.)

3. Fr.Agnel Central School

Fr. Agnel Central School situated in the powerful ambience of Govapuri, the ancient port capital of Goa, is an epitore of Catholic Holistic Education. While the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), to which Fr. Agnel Central School is affiliated, envisions. a robust, vibrant and holistic school education that will engender excellence in every sphere of human endeavor", the latter narmeates thisvision of the CBSE with the mission statement of the Catholic Education Policy," to provide education of Quality and Relevance to every child specially the Catholics and the marginalized, thus whispering hope for the minorities and the children of a pre-dominantly rural neighborhood.

Fr. Agnel Central School, founded in 2008, is one foundational unit of a progressively dynamic Educational Complex in Pilar, managed by the Xaverian Educational Society (XES) (a Registered Society under the Societies Registration Act. 1860). A student that enters this vibrant campus as a kindergarten student finds a home and a laboratory at the same time. The "home type" comfortable atmosphere in this campus propels every student to explore the diversity of talents (one is blessed with and along with the infused knowledge is kept in good stead to develop corresponding skills and a fine attitude to life. Our students following the motto of the school "Growing in Fullness" are formed to be physically fit, mentally focused, emotionally balanced and spiritually inspired.

While moving up the rungs of school education, the campus provides opportunities of higher learning at the same campus. This is indeed a big benefit to a major chunk of our students (who come from the neighboring rural areas). This school fits into the thrust of XES "to bring quality and relevant education" to this rural area of the llhas region bringing the village native students to heights of excellence. Consequently, some of our students may enter our campus as a KG student and will eventually move out of the campus with a legitimate doctorate or a post-graduate degree or diploma. That's where lies the enormous impact of belonging to Pilar Educational Complex: All the activities in the school campus are meant to develop students holistically into response national & global citizens.

4. Mission Statement

To make teachers and parents collaborate in establishing an apt system and processes that enable students to discover & foster their individualistic & communitarian identity.

5. Our Vision

Make Fr. Agnei Central School a periect exempiar of CBSE & Catholic Education Policy, wherein every student, rooted in gospel values, grows in holistic fullness and becomes a responsible citizen o the country, an inspiring member of the human family and a healthy organ of the Cosmos.

6. Aims and Objectives

• To ensure that all students have access to a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum.
• To acknowledge the student's strengths in order to meet their needs.
• To provide appropriate levels of support for students and to encourage responsibility and independent learning.
• To give students maximum and appropriate opportunity to show what they know, understand and can do.
• To value each individual equally by raising peers, teachers' parents and the student's expectations of ability and performance.
• To develop a deep sense of Nationälism and one's responsibility towards the growth and progress of the Nation.
• To prepare each child to be independent and self confident in handling himself/herself through taking up of responsibility, like Class Monitors, Captains, etc. so that they may develop leadership qualities and grow to be more and more enterprising.

7. Methods

Create a class room ambience where students are empowered

• To dissolve falsified structures of caste, class and creed.
• Collimate their tracitional, religious, personal aid fast into guiding principles for dialogue, fellowship and excellence.
• To integrate their human faculties of self awareness. imagination. conscience. and independent will and progressively rise to higher levels of mental, physical. emotional/social and spiritual intelligence through our efficient and effective use of media technology and networking.

8. Guiding Principles

• Giving primacy to character formation that leads to the choice of a life of service.
• Quality education based on holistic principles for life.
• Building educational communities in a family atmosphere of partnership.
• Strategic participatory planning.
• Moving away from rote learning to meaningful assimilative learning.
• Involving students actively in the process of learning.

9. Chief Priorities

• Character formation
• Unambiguous preference for the poor and the deserving.
• Sense of community and networking
• Polistic education.