Apart from the academic skills, a school also bears the responsibility of building positive characters in children. Building a positive temperament is quite an unformed concept; hence it is at times difficult to achieve it too. Parents’ participation cannot be denied but the school being a child’s first encounter to the world outside home; it has a great contribution in building and developing child’s character. Building a character requires inculcation of good and strong moral values. Just a few years back character building was seen as a byproduct of school education. During 1980s there has been a change of thought requiring children to have moral education. Now as the time passes more and more parents are aware of the importance of character building.

The basic elements of character

The key elements of the character of a person are:

1. Integrity
2. Honesty and kindness
3. Commitment
4. Ownership.
5. Balance
6. Attitude

Bangalore’s Harvest International School is a CBSE school and an initiative of a group of educationalists. The school aims at bringing in international quality of education and universal values to the children. This is how the school functions to ensure that each child is moving to bring in a better character within self.
Integrity - Confidence, civic sense, good habits, social, cultural and citizenship values are all a part of the activities and education at Harvest International. The integrity therefore forms a part of the child growing up as a part of the school.

Honesty and kindness - The schools goal to develop sensitivity and responsibility also yields honesty and kindness among the students.

Commitment - Harvest International’s efforts to instill confidence, civic sense, and good habits, social, cultural and citizenship values also brings out a more committed human being in futures. .

Ownership – Today we all nurture a generation of smarter children so the school encourages children to question and reason rather than restricting their creativity. Development of child’s: spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, emotional, and physical also brings in the sense of responsibility and ownership in kids.

Balance – Instilling ethics and etiquettes, morals and discipline, values and culture, is given a lot of weight here. This helps kids to grow into good human beings capable of taking the world in their stride.

Attitude - At Harvest International School, children are inspired to question, probe and discover the world. The schools teaches children to prepares them to meet the challenges of the competitive world, develop a good character and an attitude to be lifelong learners

Please visit the website http://www.harvestinternationalschool.in for more details about the school.