COBIS. Council of British International Schools

Headteacher:	Bridget Langlois
Executive Director:	Martina Beejadhur
Deputy Headteacher:	Helen Ramdin
Director of Admissions:	Bridget Langlois

Curriculum:	British/International
Age range:	4+ - 11+

Registration fee:	Upon registration of application form: MRU Rupees 1000 (approx. GBP 19)
Annual fees:	MRU Rupees 129,000 (approx. GBP 2800)
Refundable deposit:	None
Other fees:	Enrolment fee (upon acceptance of a place) MRU 43,000 (approx. GBP 930)

Description

We are a private English Primary day school in Mauritius for boys and girls between 4½ and 11 years of age. We cater for approximately 100 children and provide a British curriculum with a strong international flavour. Pupils come mainly from the expatriate, but also from the local community. They are of many different nationalities, races and creeds but share English as a common language. Staff are fully qualified, native English speakers now permanently resident in Mauritius.
Alexandra House School is an affiliate of COBIS, the Council of British International Schools.

We aim to provide a firm foundation in the fundamental skills necessary to pursue further education and to stimulate growth in all areas of the child's development. We believe that school should be a happy experience so we provide a loving, supportive environment in which the children are free to explore, to express themselves and to learn many valuable lessons in addition to the purely academic ones.

We recognise that each child is gifted with something special, something unique. We aim to encourage this uniqueness, to identify each child's special qualities and talents and to develop them as fully as possible. Therefore classes are kept small (average 15) and are divided into small groups according to individual academic levels, enabling the teachers to draw out the full potential of each child.

While the children are acquiring the necessary skills, through a carefully structured and balanced curriculum, we encourage a spirit of enquiry and self-reliance and a love of learning in order to stimulate a life-long thirst for knowledge. In this way, we aim to develop children who are independent learners and are confident in their own ability.

When our children leave us we hope they will take with them not only the highest level of academic, artistic and creative achievements of which they have proved individually capable, but also standards of truth, honesty and respect for the rights and needs of others which will help them live full, useful and happy lives.