TRINITONIAN 14 July 2019

TRINITYHOUSE
PREPARATORY PALM LAKES
ON TRACK FOR THE FUTURE
It is no secret that the 21st-century skills and
knowledge that our learners need in order to be
equipped for their journey into an unknown future
are remarkably different from the ones that were
needed in the past. Educators need to prepare children
for professions that haven’t even been invented.
Progressive education systems around the world
are moving away from content-driven curricula and
embracing a more skills-based curriculum.
It is for this reason that we, at Trinityhouse, are
providing our pupils with a skill set that will allow them
to function and thrive in a world that’s increasingly
going to require an ability to think critically and
creatively. Our pupils are going to need to collaborate
to solve intricate and complex global problems. They
will need excellent self-management skills, and they
will need to be adept at accessing relevant and useful
information.
In order to make the embedding of these skills into the
school curriculum more appealing and age-appropriate,
Mrs. Reynolds has done the amazing job of creating
a set of Global Competency Super Heroes. Our
superheroes include:
• Self-management Sizwe
• Social Simone
• Cali Communication
• Rory Research
• Theo Thinking
To further encourage and motive our pupils to think
critically about these skills and to be consciously aware
of them, we have introduced a token system. Pupils
are encouraged to earn tokens by demonstrating these
skills in different contexts. Once they have acquired
five tokens, they are recognised during assembly and
presented with a super duper Global Competency
Super Hero certificate. There is no doubt that
Trinityhouse is flying high!
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