At the outset, I would like to place on record the commendable efforts put in by my predecessor, Rev. Fr. Elango, SJ., during the last eight years to raise the standards of St. Patrick’s High School to the levels that are impossible to achieve except by undivided focus and sheer hard work!

I am overwhelmed by a deep sense of responsibility as I assume charge as the Principal of this prestigious St. Patrick’s High School. Maintaining and further enhancing its excellence will be my utmost priority. I take cognizance of the educational demands of the fast-paced world. St. Patrick’s High School never fails to read the signs of the time and respond to them; and it will leave no stone unturned to do so even today.

The world is in a flux. It is changing at a breakneck speed characterized by information explosion.  The flipside to such a development is the prominence gained by post truth. Children, like the grown-ups, ignore the objective truths. To add to it, there is a sense of dwindling human touch to the Teaching Learning Process today. Furthermore, there is a tendency to put the value-based education on the back burner in a race to catch up with the world with its lopsided emphasis on cognitive domain alone. It is in such a scenario that the need for the children to be guided arises with more urgency. St. Patrick’s will strive to be one that guides the children in the right direction. It strives relentlessly to help students to achieve their full potential through the cultivation of intellectual, social and emotional growth.

St. Patrick’s High School will continue to strive for holistic growth of its students. Besides the growth in Intelligence Quotient, Emotional Quotient and Social Quotient, our strenuous efforts will be to foster growth in virtue, true to the spirit of our motto “Labor et Virtue”: “hard work and virtue.”

I pray for the Almighty’s blessings on all of us and look forward to the cooperation and support of all the partners in this endeavor of giving value-based education to our students.

Warm regards,