Academics
What it means to be a 21st Century school.
21st century education is about providing students with the skills they need to succeed
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
FOCUSED ON ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
CURRICULUM - A SCAFFOLD FOR LEARNING
Our academic program (and syllabus) is an agreed framework through which knowledge is gained, skills are developed, and experience is widened. It is continuous across grades and phases and is aimed at allowing learners to write their final Grade 12 exit examination with internationally recognised qualifications.
Our academic program is supported by the Pearson International Curriculum, which not only meets all the curriculum expectations of the South African National Curriculum, (CAPS) but is significantly enriched in specifically Mathematics, the Sciences, and English.
Our academic program and subject syllabi are continuously reviewed and revised to ensure that it remains relevant and that it serves 21st century learning in an integrated manner. Our academic program will help learners with meeting the following aims:-
- To develop lively, enquiring minds, together with a willingness to ask questions and to argue rationally
- To think and act creatively and with imagination;
- To gain knowledge, skills and understanding appropriate to a fast-changing world, so they may be self-reliant and adaptable, and able to take an active role in society;
- To grow in confidence and independence, and to know the value of cooperation;
- To understand the feelings of others, to respect their values, and to consider thoughtfully their attitudes, values and beliefs;
- To grow in confidence and independence, and to know the value of cooperation;
- To achieve their true potential, and to take pride in that achievement, while taking pleasure in the achievement of others.
SUPPORTING THE GENERATIONS OF TOMORROW
BALANCED AND WIDE-RANGING ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Cross-curricular themes include personal identity, citizenship, economic awareness, health and physical education, the arts and environmental education.
Extra-curricular activities, which enrich or extend the curriculum, include sporting, musical, and dramatic clubs and events, excursions, incursion, festivals/fetes, focus activity weeks and projects, and community programs.
FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT
ALL ENCOMPASSING ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Our academic program matches the needs of individuals – we are not all the same, and the different learning needs of individuals are central to the planning and implementation of the school’s academic program and the execution of curriculum. All learners have equal rights of access to each curriculum area. We also offer a flexible approach.
The different demands of each learning- and skill- development area, and the varied learning needs of individuals, require
corresponding flexibility of teaching methods. Opportunity for direct instruction, peer-, collaborative-, and independent learning are equally important.
Learners involve themselves actively in the process of their own learning. They:-
- Experience working in a variety of groups of different sizes, which have been brought together for a variety of reasons.
- Develop a capacity for independent learning and attainment of objectives.
- Explore, research, experiment, and discover.
- Frame questions to solve problems; to discuss and to debate or reason; to enact, to create, to communicate and to evaluate.
YOUR STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Join the Jacaranda Family today and experience future ready education, focused on ensuring that learners are skilled, knowledgeable, experienced when entering their future place of work.
OUR HISTORY
A HOLISTIC APPROACH
Our academic program is continuous across stages. Syllabi are arranged so that a learner’s progress is continuous both within and across the learning phases and learning areas alike and that practices are consistent. The experience gathered in one phase or area of the curriculum can then be built upon in the next.
Our academic program is also aimed at realising learner potential. Accurate assessment is the key to individual progress. To set appropriate challenges and to ensure consistent learning within the zone of proximal development, an educator must be able to make informed judgements about a learner’s potential, based on a clear understanding of what that learner knows and can do. Learners themselves must reflect on their successes and their difficulties.
It is also designed to develop the whole person. Educating the whole child/teen for us means thinking about each child/teen as a human being in full, and not limiting the scope of education or care only to a narrow focus on core learning or developmental areas.
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