Hongwanji Mission School Mission Statement

Mission Statement

“Developing children academically, physically, socially, and spiritually through programs guided by Buddhist values.”

Hongwanji Mission School

Learning Expectations

We expect that a graduate of Hongwanji Mission School will be:

• 1. Compassionate
• Accepts others and treats them with dignity
• Deals honestly, fairly, and humbly with others
• Shares with others in need
• Demonstrate patience and understanding
• Promotes a peaceful society through thoughts and actions
• Volunteers in the community willingly
• 2. Responsible
• Shows initiative through setting goals and meeting them
• Demonstrates independence, self discipline and perseverance
• Takes responsibility for self
• Fulfills commitments
• Shows respect and cares for the environment
• Takes on leadership roles
• 3. Committed to Lifelong Learning
• Reads, writes, and speaks with clarity
• Embraces technology as a useful tool to locate, analyze, and share information
• Takes risks to learn new things and consider new ideas
• Appreciates the value of performing and visual arts
• Thinks critically and solves problems
• Works collaboratively with others
• Embraces opportunities to become bilingual
• Seeks to understand all things