The RiverDale school management adopts an ‘open door’ policy wherein nobody – staff, students or parents – is held behind closed doors. Every effort is made to ensure that the people who matter are readily accessible to those who need such access. The safety, comfort and productivity of staff and students at Riverdale is the primary concern of the school management to which it devotes its undivided and constant attention.

The school staff work as a perfect team, characterized by interdependence and mutual support. While recognizing the need for constant supervision of the children entrusted to their care, the school staff go about their work with diligence, care and dedication. Life and Work in a boarding school can be really demanding, but the RiverDale staff is up to it, and put in the necessary hard work, the results of which are there for everyone to see. A special feature of the work of the RiverDale staff, especially teachers and dorm-parents, is their constant endeavor to nurture a kind of relationship with their students that provides the basis for students’ application and conduct that is disciplined, harmonious and productive.

The students are the reason for which the school exists and so every measure, every approach and every facility is aimed at ensuring their wellbeing and development. The diversity of backgrounds from which children come to join RiverDale offers the school both a challenge and an opportunity to help them develop desirable habits, attitudes, skills, abilities and knowledge in preparation for their future lives. Reasoning with children, finding out ways to help make them motivated learners, lending them a hearing ear often, providing them with the emotional support that they often require, and offering them a safe and healthy environment in which they find every opportunity to develop their talents, potentialities and capacities to their fullest.

A special feature of student life at RiverDale is measures intended to help children learn and practice cooperation. Be it in the dormitories where older students help their younger peers, in the classroom where older students offer remedial support to their younger peers who are weak in studies, or in the play grounds where children watch over and support each other. Helping students acquire and reflect leadership qualities is another priority for the school which is achieved through the school’s Board of Prefects, and by assigning leadership roles in the classroom, dormitories and playgrounds.

The school recognizes the fact that students benefit from a close and positive relationship between the school and parents that is based on transparency and trust. To this end, parents are regularly updated about the progress of their children through frequent Parent-Teacher Meetings, and through correspondence on request. The close and healthy relationship that the school enjoys with parents ensures that every aspect of their children’s progress at school are discussed freely and frankly. Parental support to the school’s varied initiatives, programs and decisions is a key feature of the relationship that exists between them and the school.

All in all, the dynamics within the RiverDale community have many unique characteristics which have been perfected with a great deal of effort and care over the years.