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Well Rounded Education

Backend Admin — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:33:50 +0000

Every parent wants their children to succeed in life however, most parents have no clue on the appropriate steps to take, in guiding their children towards this objective.

While some parents would love their kids to excel academically, others prefer their kids to be more successful in sports, music or even politics.

Some have gone ahead to choose a perceived path to success for their children, without providing the required basic foundation.

With about 40 years of experience in education and constant engagement with students, parents and teachers; we at Greensprings School have discovered the most important thing any child needs to succeed in life.

Here is the verdict! Your child needs a WELL-ROUNDED EDUCATION.
A child that has a well-rounded education is equipped with relevant skills to be able to manage complex situations.

There are five key components of a well-rounded education:-

1. Academic excellence

2. Intellectual, cognitive and presentation skills

3. Music and performing arts

4. Sports and recreation

5. Social skills and community service

Greensprings has been a co-educational school for about 40 years. Well-rounded education is of paramount importance at Greensprings.

Our mission is to promote lifelong learning in an open and caring atmosphere that motivates students to be confident and responsible global citizens.

We believe that a well-rounded child will always have an edge to succeed in this ever-changing world.

Why choose Greensprings School

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Thinking School

Backend Admin — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:30:59 +0000

Critical thinking is a very well-known concept and we hear the words often being used. We know that children and indeed also, adults, need to be able to think critically for today’s modern world, but how do we ensure that our students develop these higher order thinking skills as opposed to the lower order skills of recall and application? The foundations for the thinking skills movement have been built by cognitive scientists and developmental psychologists drawing from the works of the pioneers such as Dewey, Piaget, Luria, Feuerstein, Vygotsky and so many others.

Today, the field of developing thinking skills—or cognitive processes in particular–along with dispositions, enquiry based learning, creativity and a range of “intelligences” and uses of technology is blossoming all over. As this field now progresses and matures in this century, the questions become as follows:
● How do we support learners across all of these dimensions of thinking, not just “thinking skills”?
● How do we support teachers across an entire school to integrate these approaches or pathways, so there is consistency as well as flexible use?
● How do we support students to become aware of their thinking (metacognition) so that they may become experts in how their own minds work… so that they have the lifelong capacity to improve their thinking… as the world changes so rapidly?
Source: Thinking Schools International

A Thinking School supports students to think ‘outside the box.’ Students will be able to deconstruct their own learning process and even find out what works best for them. The Thinking School approach is not just a subject but an approach to be used by every teacher in every subject. Thinking will help students tackle difficult questions more creatively.

In 2018, Greensprings School partnered with Thinking Schools International to address these needs as a whole school and also with Cantab Tutors, to develop a written curriculum for our secondary students which will support them and allow them to develop specific higher order thinking of analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

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Virtual Learning Environment

Backend Admin — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:13:31 +0000

VLE is a great tool which will change and enhance the delivery and assessment of education forever. What we are seeing now is only scratching the surface.

Greensprings’ Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is at the heart of our teaching, learning and assessment.

This platform is an online system that allows teachers to share educational content, assignments and grade students.

Parents also have the opportunity to login to check their child’s educational progress.

Here are some reasons why we use the VLE:

Communication – This is a great way for parents and teachers to communicate effectively about their child’s specific needs.

Producing work – students do not physically have to find their teacher to hand in work due to secure virtual ‘hand-in’ folders that have time windows.

Resource hub – Parents and students have educational content, timetables and calendars they need to plan effectively.

View our curriculum

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Activity Based Learning

Backend Admin — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:54:26 +0000

Activity-based Learning otherwise known as ABL could be likened to the Chinese adage that says, “Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand”.
�ƹ�app School, teachers and students from ages 18 months to 16 years, experience the learning process collaboratively. The teachers are mostly there to prepare the environment and facilitate the learning process for exploration of concepts and ideas. This is far from what obtains in other schools where teachers are still the only sage in the classroom.
Educational research into brain development and learning has made us understood that as many of the senses of the child that are brought into the learning process, the deeper and the richer the learning experience. Students are active investigator of their environment.

This natural nature is what this learning methodology taps into to bring about effective teaching and learning. The method gives reality to meaning and it takes care of all the different learning styles in the classroom. So, no child is left behind in his learning. During Activity-Based learning class, the students own their learning. Through this learning methodology, they acquire the 21st century skills of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity amongst other skills.

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