Introduction:
 
La Salle High School of Pildesti was opened to provide a social response to the right of every person to a high standard of education 
 
   As a scholastic institution we are not isolated. We form part of a network of over 1000 Lasallian Schools (primary, secondary, and university colleges) in 82 different countries in all continents. We enjoy the support of the Catholic Church (diocese of Iasi) and are members of the National Secretariate for Catholic Education of Rumania (S.N.E.C.), with links on the European level (C.E.E.C. – Bruxelles) and ASSEDIL. Moreover, we are a school accredited by Ministerial Authority.
 
   We wish to make this scholastic project the means by which, as an educational community, we make the objectives of our teaching philosophy better known.
 
   For the project to succeed, we have to know where to start (that is being aware of the potential of our school) as well as where we wish to arrive (that is what are our targets are for the current year) as well as to know by what means we intend to reach our objectives.   

1. Where do we start? / Our school reality
 
   
         In the past, the School concentrated on the world of work and the successful completion of the courses.

         The latest group to finish the course in our school was the 4th to be fully integrated in the new structure for Professional Teaching in Romania (SAM + Final Year).

          A number of the students who came to our school had serious gaps in their education, the sort that demands special and personal attention from the professional staff.
  
       We have already acquired a certain positive reputation in the area while our former students are greatly appreciated in the world of work and the other centres for higher education.

        The educational community has retained, with a few exceptions, the same elements. 

      We enjoy the benefits of a modern material base and competent human resources able to face any demands imposed by present circumstances.

     We are happy to announce that the school is now officially recognized, after all the steps necessary to this end had been taken.  

       Because of ministerial changes in SAM, we have become a recognized Higher Technological Centre, introducing a course leading to a new professional certificate : Technical Computer Operator.

      This year we propose to provide opportunities for educative-formative collaboration with other centres and organizations working in the professional field in Rumania and in foreign countries.
 

2. Where do we want to arrive this year - The primary objective

      The primary objectiveof the educational philosophy of La Salle High School to provide an alternative type of education remains for us the permanent goal. This arises from our desire to help all our students develop their talents integrally and harmoniously, giving them a formation that respects fundamental rights and freedoms while preparing them to take an active, competent and critical part in the professional, social and cultural life.   

      Likewise, we want our students to become free and responsible citizens. For this purpose we seek to instill in them the knowledge, stimulus and attitude necessary for the development of their whole personality, to encourage them to make the right choices freely and responsibly and to set themselves a hierarchy of those values that make  their lives worthwhile.

      Our determination to provide a professional and religious-human character- formation will be strenghtened this year as it has always been in the past, by

a.      Directing all our educative efforts on the axis of identitity-quality committing ourselves to respond to the real needs of our students determinedly and continually.

b.     Strengthening the infrastructure of well-prepared human resources and ensuring the provision of the materials required by our new status as a recognized High School.

3.    Reaching our goal:   Means to attain our objectives
 
3.1 To create a friendly atmosphere within the educational community, we intend to
 
- Make an effort to be present during the daily coffee-break at 10.00.

-  Celebrate every staff-member’s birthday even when this falls during the holidays. Likewise, celebrate the birthday of every student (the class-master makes it a point to mention this in class.

- Use special occasions for staff to  get together : during Christmas time, 1st or 8th March, the feastday of St John Baptist de la Salle, the end of the scholastic year.

- We would like the outing at the end of the scholastic year to become a tradition.

- Encourage direct contact with the students’ families.

- Take an active part in parents’ meetings.

- We would like everybody, as far as possible, to attend the first meeting.  

- Improve relations among us - members of staff, students, parents – by ensuring we show availability, trust and respect in an appropriate manner.

- Use extra-curricular activities – outings, sports, hobbies, etc – in order to encourage sharing and appreciation of each other.

- Organize festive occasions, for each class, for those graduating with the class-master and other teachers who taught those classes.

- Find ways of keeping contact with graduates and organize reunions with them (marking 5th anniversary, etc).

- Encourage graduates to take the initiative in organizing a final dinner preceded by a celebratory get-together for the students and their parents.

- Organize courses in Lasallian-pedagogic formation.

3.2   Means to offer an education of a high standard.

 We intend to:

- Improve the activities of the various commissions with special emphasis on the commission for re-assessment and consolidating our standards.

- Do our best to keep up-to-date with new developments in our spheres of activity, especially on the professional level (new literature, information, technology, etc.).

- Attend the meetings organized by the commissions, the staff council, and the sessions on on-going formation arranged by the school or by the Inspectorate. 

- Draw up official time-tables to conform with our present circumstances.

- Seek to become familiar with modern audio-visual and computer materials in order to make use of them in our educative work.

- Insist, irrespective of the subject we teach, on those aspects of education conforming to the philosophy adopted by the school: pride in work well done, diligence, respect in our human relations, conscientiousness, cooperation, as well as the importance of the proper way to express ourselves orally or in writing.

- Establish links with the other schools and reputable enterprises around Roman and maintain our relations with those in other countries that have supported us so far.

- Stimulate our students to interest themselves more in reading culture, communication, and correct expression. Collaboration in the School Magazine could be a useful means and should be supported.

- Establish more firmly the role of the parents’ committee, to be well prepared for their interventions during meetings of C.A. Likewise with the students’ committee. 

- Encourage the formation of groups according to tendencies and abilities to animate the students (LaSalle Club).

- Invite entrepreneurs and other competent persons from the various spheres to speak to the students.

3.3    Means to respond better to the greater needs of our students and avoid failure of disappointment

 We intend to:

- Involve ourselves more effectively to support those students most in need at various levels (social, economic, cultural, intellectual, family).

- Give personal attention to those students with special educational needs or whose behaviour is questionable so as to avoid any sort of failure of disappointment.

- Encourage the formation of support groups in the various classes and organize extra-curricular sessions to help in those subjects that present special problems.

- Ask for the assistance of others (parents, psychologists, etc) to deal with those with special needs.

- Give prominence to the half-yearly personal meeting between class-master and student to strengthen the ties with the school