Crawford Times 61

PRE-PRIMARY
ACADEMICS
Crawford Pre-Primary Fourways “When I grow up I
want to be a teacher
because it is fun and
teachers already know
the answers because
they are educated.
I also want to be a
teacher because I
love kids. I want to
encourage them to learn and I want to help kids that really
need help. Another reason I want to be a teacher is that you
can make lots of money when you help kids do their work.”
– Oratilwe
The Future of Jobs
The Future of Jobs Report describes the urgency
to prepare future workers. Governments, schools
and businesses need to change their approach to
education, skills and employment. Some of the
skills that will be in high
demand by 2020 are:
As children, we all dream of what we want to be when
we grow up. At Crawford Pre-Primary Fourways finding
out the hopes and dreams of our pupils while creating
a foundation where they can flourish is most rewarding.
Here our pupils express their hopes and dreams with
their peers:
Crawford Pre-Primary Fourways “When we grow
up we want to be
mathematicians.
If you are a
mathematician
you get to use
your brain and
your good
thinking skills
every day. You have to be very clever and learn to love
numbers when you are very young. First, you have to
learn to count, then you have to learn how to write the
numbers and then you have to learn to add and take
away. There is a lot more that a mathematician can do
but we will have to wait until we are in Grade 1.
Sir Isaac Newton was a famous mathematician and he
knew everything.” – Grade 0 Parrot Class Crawford
Pre-Primary Fourways.
• Complex problemsolving
• Critical thinking
• Creativity
• People management
• Emotional intelligence
• Decision-making
• Service orientation
It’s critical that we rethink WHY, WHAT and HOW
we learn in schools for pupils to thrive in the
information economy of TODAY and TOMORROW,
not yesterday!
The Crawford Pre-
Primary Lonehill Grade
0000s are already on
the road to academic
success. Guided free
play encourages
the pupils to count
and sort by colour,
shape and size. Selfreflection
allows the
pupils to review and
communicate their
learning journey and
possibly influence a
future career choice.
Crawford Pre-Primary La Lucia
Crawford Pre-Primary Lonehill
Ivan Le
Crawford Pre-Primary La Lucia
Voting – an important civil job!
Our Crawford Pre-Primary La Lucia Grade 0 pupils
discussed what voting was, the process, why we do it and
learnt the meaning of democracy. We then spoke about
what it means to be caring and the pupils were asked
to vote on who they thought was the most caring in the
class. Some pupils were given roles as the inker, handing
out the ballot papers or overseeing the ballot box. We
made identity documents which were verified before they
could vote.
Crawford Pre-Primary Lonehill
Budding
accountants working
with Numicon plates
to calculate bonds of
seven. Numicon is a
concrete apparatus
used to introduce
and reinforce
number concepts
at Crawford Pre-
Primary Lonehill.
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