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GENERAL INFORMATION
The school was established in 1976 because of the growing demand to provide Christian education, and a place where the children of our church community could continue their spiritual growth.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist School is an elementary institution whose philosophy of Christian Education is rooted in the Scriptures and the writings of Ellen G. White. The instrument is predicated on the belief that each student is unique and of inestimable value. The curriculum therefore, is designed to facilitate the holistic development of each child.
The primary purpose of the Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist School is to prepare all students for productive life within the home, the school, the church, the society, and the world hereafter. To this end therefore, the Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist Church School is fully committed to enable the child to think intensively and critically, and to develop a sound character.
PHILOSOPHY
The Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist School is a PK – 8 grade school, established by the Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist Church, Brooklyn, New York, to provide Christian education for its children and youth. It adheres to the principles contained in the Bible. and in the Spirit of Prophecy and maintains the standards upheld by the Education Department of the Northeastern Conference, Atlantic Union, and the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist Church realizes that nothing is of greater importance than the education of our children and young people. The school has accepted as its definition of education that of a divinely inspired writer that education is “the harmonious development of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual powers.” Education, p, 13.
It is also based on the philosophy that “true education means more than the perusal of a certain course of study. It means more than a preparation for the life that now is. It has to do with the whole being, and with the whole period of existence possible to man.” Ibid
OBJECTIVES
The school desires to maintain the following objectives:
- To instill students with the sound academic training needed to achieve academic excellence.
- To identify and develop leadership qualities, self-discipline, and other skills necessary to maintain a fulfilled life.
- To promote sound health principles.
- To develop social skills and sound relationships.
- To accept the uniqueness of each student as an individual created in the image of God.
- To establish a love for God and an appreciation for all His created works.
- To facilitate the development of character in our children and youth for useful service in this world and the world to come.
- To employ instructional strategies and design student’s activities so they may develop:
- The Capacity to Love as God Loves Them.
- The Capacity to Learn as God Teaches Them.
- The Capacity to Think as God Wills Them.
- The Capacity to Live as God Leads Them.