Dunreath Study Centre
Aims
To offer a programme of informal education that fosters and develops skills and talents in schoolboys, and to help them improve and enrich their moral and spiritual life.
To foster a study atmosphere within the Centre, to make good use of spare time and to acquire good study habits.
Objectives
To provide regular weekday activity programmes for schoolboys (15-18): seminars on topical issues and personal development, study-based activities, sports and social outreach activities.
To ensure that individual attention is given to each person through personal tutorials in order to help each one manage more effectively the transition from youth to adulthood.
To offer opportunities for spiritual and doctrinal growth.
To encourage the involvement of parents through a Parents’ Committee.
To bring together families of the students through various activities for the whole family.
To make these sevices available to schools in order to complement and or support their own programmes.
Activities (see this term’s activities)
The Study Centre operates on weekdays from 4.30 pm, with a special programme on Saturdays (2.30 - 8.30 pm).
The curriculum includes a wide range of activities including sports and cultural events leadership programmes, communications skills development, and excursions.
There is a weekly talk on some aspect of human or Christian development, aimed at complementing the formation received in the home and at school.
Dunreath Study Centre has excellent library, study and computer facilities which are always available for doing school work and, in this respect, help in most fields can be arranged. Thus, there is opportunity both to make good use of spare time and to acquire good study habits.
A yearly subscription is charged for both the Study Centre and the Boys Club, and various forms of sponsorship and family rates are available for those who find it difficult to meet the financial commitment. The subscription is due one month after first attending and new members are always welcome.