TNS Beaconhouse - Defence - DHA Phase 5 Branch

If children are not just passive learners, their natural curiosity and independence come to the fore. If they are given structured, meaningful strategies to search and discover for themselves, they ‘learn by doing’. The project-based learning programme at TNS fosters and exploits the innate abilities and unique potential of children to be active stakeholders in their own development and learning. With the freedom to express themselves and explore their world through experiment, experience and constructive strategies, children develop their creative intelligence, free thought and individuality.



The teacher has a very special role in this scenario and is committed to reciprocal learning; listening, observing and provoking thinking rather than simply providing information. Primarily a facilitator, the teacher is also a researcher, a resource and a guide.



The educational practices that prevail today compel students to rote learn and regurgitate information without understanding how knowledge can be applied in practical terms. At TNS, the focus is firmly on the teaching of practical, real-life skills rather than textbook theory: authentic learning activities rather than decontextualised and classroom-based tasks. These activities are designed to answer a question or solve a problem and generally reflect the types of learning and work people do in the everyday world outside the classroom.

The establishment of TNS in Lahore in September 2007 was to a great extent influenced by the first-ever international conference on education in Pakistan, `Towards 2035: The School of Tomorrow` hosted by the Beaconhouse Group in 2005. The conference addressed the changing role of education and the nature of schools over the next 30 years and beyond.



TNS was the first school in Pakistan to embrace the Reggio Emilia Approach based on the concept of `learning by doing`, and is now the first school in Lahore to be accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organisation. Project-based learning is the hallmark of the progressive educational experience at TNS, underpinning a unique and distinctive academic choice ranging from the Reggio Emilia Approach, through to the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma and Cambridge (UK) IGCSE.



The overwhelming response to the original TNS branch has led to the establishment of a second cutting-edge campus in Lahore. All year levels from Nursery upwards are available at this campus (TNS Defence). The original TNS Gulberg functions in parallel as an Early Years and Lower Primary Campus (Nursery to Year 3).