Dear Friends,
We are already through the first four months of the New Year 2023, experiencing numerous blessings of God. The schools are in a closing mood after completing examinations, results and promotions and are looking forward to a well-deserved summer vacation. Students from Classes X and XII have completed their Board exams and are in search of renowned institutions to seek admission for higher studies and are preparing earnestly for the entrance exams. Bethany Educational Society wishes them well, in making the right choices and to achieve their dreams of life.
The academic year 2022-23 was memorable and eventful with a number of activities. It was a year of significant transition from the horrifying 2 years of COVID - 19 pandemic to a normal academic year in physical mode. My dear teachers, you have laboured tirelessly to prepare your students to face the examinations, and above all to face life with its ups and downs. The students have experienced the joy of classroom learning and have participated enthusiastically in all the curricular and co-curricular activities. Success is impossible without determination, hard work, discipline and self-sacrifice. The students have discovered the essence of this through this academic year.
The great spiritual leader Pope Francis said that teachers are “on the front line” in “educating so as to move from a closed world to an open world; from a throwaway culture to a culture of care; from a culture of rejection to a culture of integration; from the pursuit of vested interests to the pursuit of the common good.” As educators, you know very well that this transformation must start from the conscience, or it will only be a façade,” he added.
As educators, you are called upon to nurture the desire for truth, goodness and beauty that lie in the heart of each individual, so that all may learn how to love life and be open to the fullness of life. After the relaxing vacation, when you begin the new academic year 2023-24, may you re-dedicate yourselves with passionate zeal to your vocation as educators and to your efforts to solidify the foundations of a more humane society with the core values of BES, and thus be the role models to your students.
Sr M Sandhya BS
Secretary, BES
