In the past year, the ATENEO Networked, Engaged, Optimized (NEO) NORMAL has been the University’s approach in providing effective and holistic continuous learning and formation opportunities grounded on the tradition of Jesuit Education and Ignatian Spirituality. In the second year of the implementation of the AteNEO Normal, and in celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Junior High School invites its members to see all things new in Christ:
- to regain a sense of openness and wonder for the movements of the Spirit in the community;
- to foster better home-and-school partnership; and
- to be open to new opportunities that come with the new mode of learning.
All these are in the hopes of forming our students to be men and women for others who see all things new in Christ.
In the span of a year, the education system worldwide has been led to reinvent itself and see all things new, and to revisit its practices with a new perspective. In these challenging times faced by daunting change and adaptation, the Junior High School ensures the continuous delivery of its Academic and Formation Programs in order to form its students to become young men and women for others marked with Competence, Conscience, Christ-Centeredness, and Compassionate Commitment to Change.
Together with the Jesuit Schools worldwide, the delivery of instruction and formation in the Ateneo de Naga University Junior High School (AdNU JHS) has taken a form removed from the physical, face-to-face contact provided during classroom encounters, conversations, and formation activities. Many factors in learning have been reinvented and delivered using tools provided for by the advancements in technology together with time-tested means of fostering distance learning.
Teachers, students, and parents of the AdNU JHS are called to see all things new and work together to improve the delivery of its instruction. All these are done in order to stand by the Characteristics of Jesuit Education which aims “to assist in the fullest possible development of all of the God-given talents of each individual person as a member of the human community (25)” as well as to journey with the youth in paths that lead to the Lord and in the creation of a hope-filled future.