Cambridge Mission and Vision
University of Cambridge International is the world’s largest provider of international education programmes and qualifications for 5–19 year olds. Our qualifications are taken in over 160 countries and recognized by universities, education providers and employers across the world.
We are part of the Cambridge Assessment Group, a not-for-profit organization and a department of the University of Cambridge. We share in their mission of providing excellence in education.
Our mission is to deliver world-class international education through the provision of curricula, assessment and services. We are committed to extending access to the benefits of high-quality education around the globe. Our programmes and qualifications develop successful learners and support the economic performance of countries where we work at national level.
Our programmes and qualifications
Our international education programmes and qualifications lead seamlessly from primary through secondary and pre-university years. We provide globally recognised qualifications including Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge International AS, which open doors for learners worldwide.
Developing successful teachers and learners
Well supported teachers can offer the best education possible and develop successful learners. Together with schools, we aim to develop Cambridge learners who are confident, responsible, innovative and engaged. All our programmes and qualifications follow a learner-centered approach.
Our approach to assessment is set out in our Code of Practice.
Curriculum
Curriculum is at the heart of the learning experience a school offers its learners, and at the heart of the mission and vision of the school. Cambridge curricula develop learners' understanding, knowledge and skills.
Classroom
Classroom support and guidance helps teachers and learners perform to their maximum ability. Cambridge offers world-class teacher and learner resources, including expert training and support resources.
Qualifications
Cambridge qualifications open doors to new and exciting opportunities by providing learners with a global passport to success. Cambridge offers rigorous and flexible assessment, leading to international qualifications which are recognised worldwide.
Community
Our global learning community of Cambridge schools, teachers and learners brings people closer together to share best practice and ideas and drive excellence in education.
PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL
Overview
Our Vision
Our Vision is to become a leading pre-primary and primary school, a quality reference for its innovative teaching and learning – a centre of excellence for education
Our Mission
Our Mission is to create a successful and carefully resourced environment that encourage children to develop a lively enquiring mind and disciplined life, become confident learners and problem solvers in this cutting-edge world.
Our Values
- believe firmly in the potential of your children – our students
- committed in exploring their worth in your company
- promote the sense of belonging
- embrace a high standard of academic achievements
- enhance team spirit by encouraging participation in community service as part and parcel of school life
- value tolerance in a multi-cultural society by acclimatizing learners to fundamental issues like peace, justice and freedom – vital qualities of universality
- take care of all-round development of every learner:
- physical
- intellectual
- social
- emotional
Another aim of the pre-primary school is to help the child develop his full potential intellectually, socially, morally and emotionally. We want children to feel at ease with themselves and we believe that self-esteem, through nurturing the individual’s needs, is the foundation for your child’s future learning development and social emotional well-being.
At the pre-primary school level, more than at any other age, we can follow the principle of “learning by doing”, for in their play, and young children simulate or relive life situations through dramatic play, manipulations of material and rhythm.
Young children learn most fully through direct sensory experiences – touching, hearing, tasting manipulating, seeing. The child who has had these opportunities to explore and to have his questions answered, is later ready for more formal learning.
Play is the work of young children. Play is essential to growth, for through play the child develops security, resourcefulness, imagination, initiative, social awareness, cultural heritage, physical well-being. Therefore the curriculum of our pre-primary school consists of enriched play experiences in a favourable environment with wonderful resources and guided by competent teachers.
Our pre-primary school incorporates all elements necessary for a balanced programme – active and quiet periods, social and individual activities, opportunities for both creativity and conformity, consistency in the programme pattern, yet flexibility in the daily activities, organization to prevent confusion, consideration of age-groups and the needs of the individual child and provision of a variety of wonderful grown and learning experiences.
PRIMARY SCHOOL
Overview & Curriculum
Our aim is that they not only meet and if possible surpass existing educational standards, but that they also find learning exciting, compelling and intrinsically worthwhile. We aim for them to appreciate the richness of their own and each other’s cultures, to understand the importance of physical activity to health, and to become competent and social beings who have sound, secure and healthy self-concepts to help them face the challenges that await them in their lives.
HIGH SCHOOL
Overview & Curriculum
Our mission is to guide students to become productive and contributing members of society. In a safe and caring environment, the Academy will provide a strong academic and co-curricular program. The staff shall coordinate the resources of the school and community in such ways that students respect themselves and others, appreciate the value of diversity and individual creativity, recognize the problems and opportunities of change, seek a set of moral standards that allows them to thrive in the world they inherit, and experience the joy of learning as a lifelong process.
Cambridge IGCSE is the world’s most popular international curriculum for 14-16 year olds, leading to globally recognised and valued Cambridge IGCSE qualifications. Schools worldwide have helped develop Cambridge IGCSE, which provides excellent preparation for the Cambridge Advanced stage including Cambridge International AS Levels. It incorporates the best in international education for learners at this level. It develops in line with changing needs, and is regularly updated and extended.
Cambridge IGCSE encourages learner-centred and enquiry-based approaches to learning. It develops learners’ skills in creative thinking, enquiry and problem solving, giving learners excellent preparation for the next stage in their education.
Over 70 subjects are available, including more than 30 language courses, offering a variety of routes for learners of different abilities. Cambridge IGCSE develops learner knowledge, understanding and skills in:
- Subject content
- Applying knowledge and understanding to familiar and new situations
- Intellectual enquiry
- Flexibility and responsiveness to change
- Working and communicating in English
- Influencing outcomes
- Cultural awareness
Cambridge International Certificate of Education (ICE) Curriculum Overview
Cambridge ICE is the group award of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) and requires the study of subjects drawn from the five different IGCSE subject groups. It gives schools the opportunity to benefit from offering a broad and balanced curriculum by recognising the achievements of students who pass examinations in at least seven subjects, including two languages, and one subject from each of the other subject groups.
The Cambridge portfolio of IGCSE qualifications provides a solid foundation for higher level courses such as GCE AS and A Levels and the International Baccalaureate Diploma as well as excellent preparation for employment.
A wide range of IGCSE subjects is available and these are grouped into five curriculum areas, as follows:
- Group I: Languages
- Group II: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Group III: Sciences
- Group IV: Mathematics
- Group V: Creative, Technical and Vocational
Cambridge International AS Level Overview
Cambridge International AS Levels have half the content of the corresponding Cambridge International A Level and may be completed in one year. Schools can offer Cambridge International AS Level as a qualification in its own right or as a stage on the way to Cambridge International A Level. Learners can study Cambridge International AS Level alongside other subjects to increase breadth in the curriculum and build further knowledge and understanding to other subjects they are studying at Cambridge International A Level.
SUBJECTS OFFERED
GRADE 8, 9, 10 (IGCSE LEVEL) ARE:
- ENGLISH
- AFRIKAANS
- SESOTHO
- FRENCH
- PHYSICAL SCIENCE (PHYSICS&CHEMISTRY)
- BIOLOGY
- ACCOUNTING
- BUSINESS STUDIES
- GEOGRAPHY
- MATHEMATICS
- COMPUTER STUDIES
- HISTORY
AS LEVELS (GRADE 11&12) ON CAMBRIDGE SYSTEM
- ENGLISH
- AFRIKAANS
- FRENCH
- SESOTHO
- PHYSICS
- CHEMISTRY
- BIOLOGY
- ACCOUNTING
- BUSINESS STUDIES
- GEOGRAPHY
- MATHEMATICS
- COMPUTER STUDIES
- HISTORY
NATIONAL CURRICULUM (GRADE 8 to 12):
- ENGLISH
- AFRIKAANS
- SESOTHO
- PHYSICAL SCIENCE(CHEMISTRY&PHYSICS)
- BIOLOGY(LIFE SCIENCES)
- ACCOUNTING
- BUSINESS STUDIES
- GEOGRAPHY
- LIFE ORIENTATION
- MATHEMATICS
- MATH LITERACY
- COMPUTER STUDIES
Extra Mural Activities
- Soccer
- Netball
- Athletics
- Choir
- Chess