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Kgaswe School

An independent day school for boys and girls from Pre-Primary to High-School.

Junior-Primary

At the age of five and a half to six years the children enter the junior classes of the primary school. The class teacher continues to provide the attention and encouragement necessary for each pupil’s personal development.

During the next three years children are gradually introduced to specialist subjects. Close attention is paid to fluent reading, writing and to essential practical and numerical skills as well as computer skills and basic technology.

A busy Junior Primary class

At this stage the involvement in music, art, drama, games and PE play an important part in the growth and development of the child.

 

Theme teaching

The Junior Primary often base their teaching around themes. These themes meaningfully integrate all aspects of learning into a personalised programme that and enables the children to practically apply all the numeracy and literacy skills learned in a meaningful activity. Theme teaching integrates basic disciplines like reading, maths, and science with the exploration of a broad subject, such as communities, animals, winter, the use of energy, and so on.

Theme teaching is based on the idea that people acquire knowledge best when learning in the context of a coherent "whole," and when they can connect what they're learning to the real world. Some themes include, pirates, Easter, winter, books, to mention a few.

 

 

Group Work

Group teaching forms the basis of our teaching in the Junior primary, ensuring no child misses out.

Grouping is a common teaching technique, especially at the junior level. Teachers place pupils together in groups within the classroom to improve the learning conditions. Traditionally, grouping has been the most effective approach to teaching reading and basic maths. The teacher follows a detailed programme of instruction and examples, and then the groups work together to respond to the questions presented to them.

Grouping allows teachers to place students of the same achievement level together, making it easier for the teacher to work with them. On the other hand, cooperative learning groups place students of different abilities together, so that students within each group can help each other. These groupings are often effective in raising students' achievement while improving interpersonal skills. Grouping has been particularly successful with hard-to-teach and fast-learning students.

Small group teaching is optimal for active learning, which is becoming regarded as an essential element at all levels of education and which typically is not present in the traditional passive lecture.