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TRINITYHOUSE
PRE-PRIMARY & PREPARATORY
NORTHRIDING
We are a small, intimate school that
aims to create a sense of family by which
children learn to value and respect the
family they live with, our school family
and, most importantly, the family of
God, to which we all belong.
As a young, upcoming and innovative
school, offering Grade 000-Grade 4
in 2018, we currently only have 15-18
children per class. Small group teaching
encourages pupils to be actively
involved, it increases their interest,
fosters teamwork and develops selfmotivation,
and ensures that deeper
learning takes place. Moreover, it
enhances child-teacher and peer-peer
interaction. In this environment we have
the ideal opportunity to work with small
groups of children, differentiating for
each child and meeting everyone where
they are at. We are therefore in the
fortunate position to extend children
according to their strengths, and
provide scaffolding for them according
to their needs.
Learn through play – Little ones seated in a small group learning
through play
We are living in a time of change and,
as a school, we’re enthusiastically
embracing the challenges that lie ahead.
We recognise that teaching has to
prepare children for the modern world
and what it entails. We are continuously
implementing strategies to ensure that
we keep up with what is best theory as
that will guide us to use best practice
in our teaching and learning. In every
class, one will see evidence of colourful,
efficient, modern day strategies such as
De Bono’s thinking hats, Kagan structures,
Philosophy for Children (P4C), Making
thinking visible, and Big idea teaching.
We strongly believe in creating an
environment where children will
love learning, think deeply and have
unlimited hope for their future.
Time 2 Read in the Pre-Primary
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