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Our Nursery & Primary Curriculum focuses on 6 main areas of development
Through this areas, we aim
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To enable the child to live a full life as a child and to realise his or her potential as a unique
individual.
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To enable the child to develop as a social being through living and co-operating with others
and so contribute to the good of society.
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To prepare the child for further education through fun learning so as to build in a child the love
for learning.
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An unusual trend within our cultural settings of following instructions by empowering kids to
be able to make decisions, explain the reasons for decisions taken and take responsibility for
their actions.
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To create a positive environment in which each child’s potential is recognized and credited
with a view of building self esteem.
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To make childhood memories fun, promote a healthy lifestyle and build a competitive spirit in
children.
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Social, Personal And Health Education; provides particular opportunities to foster the
personal development, health and well-being of the child and to help him/her to create and
maintain supportive relationships and become an active and responsible citizen in society.
Through an SPHE program children can develop a framework of values, attitudes,
understanding and skills that will boost their actions and decisions in these areas of their lives
both now and in the future. The overall aim is to foster self worth and self confidence in a
child.
2) Communication, Language & Literacy. (English, French, Art, Literature)
Language has a vital role to play in children's development. Much learning takes place through the
interaction of language and experience. Language helps the child to clarify and interpret
experience, to acquire new concepts, and to add depth to concepts already grasped. In view
of this crucial relationship between language and learning the curriculum incorporates the use
of talk and discussion as a central learning strategy in every curriculum area. This facilitates
the exploration of ideas, emotions and reactions through increasingly complex language, thus
deepening the child's understanding of the world. The Drama Curriculum contributes to
developing the child's competence and confidence in English, Drama is used to explore
feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding of concepts and our changing world.
3) Art: Arts education enables the child to express ideas, feelings and experiences in language,
gesture and movement. The use of drama in the classroom encourages the child to express ideas
that are creative and explorative. The Arts Education curriculum explores pathways to learning that
involves reflection, imagination and sensitivity. Learning through the arts facilitates the use of a
range of intelligences. Drawing & Color focuses on building a child’s imagination and observations.
They look at a picture or draw one and are able to talk about it, thereby building their speech,
bringing out their imagination and descriptive power in the process.
4) Problem solving, reasoning & numeracy Mathematics
Mathematics enables a child to think and communicate quantitatively and spatially, solve problems,
recognise situations where mathematics can be applied, and use appropriate technology to support
such use. The Mathematics Curriculum lays emphasis on the development of the child’s estimation
skills and problem-solving skills using examples which are relevant to the child’s experience.
Focus will be on early mathematical skill; Numbers, algebra, shape and space, measure and data.
Teaching is aimed at ensuring that appropriate connection and understanding are made between
number, shapes, space and time and measures. In upper primary, a wide variety of word problems
will be explored, which is link to day to day decision making and problem solving.
5) Physical Education Curriculum;
Physical education (PE) provides children with learning opportunities through the medium of
movement and contributes to their overall development by helping them to lead full, active and
healthy lives.
The Physical Education Curriculum includes six strands:
Athletics
Dance
Gymnastics
Games
Outdoor and adventure activities
Aquatics
6) Knowledge and understanding of the world. ( Natures study, Geography, History, Civics
Rural & Domestic Science)
Geography: Geography enables children to make sense of their surroundings and the wider
world by learning about the natural and human elements of local and wider environments.
Through learning about their environments, children develop a range of geographical skills and
concepts. Our curriculum focuses is principally on the human and physical environment
Geography encourages children to appreciate the interdependence of individuals, groups and
communities. It promotes an understanding of, and respect for different cultures and how
different people live their lives.
History: History enables children to develop their knowledge and understanding of people,
events and developments in the past at local, national and international levels. History has a
valuable role to play in enabling children to learn about, and come to value the contributions
made in the past by people from different ethnic and cultural groups.
Please note that our lower primary academic program deviates in some ways from the
Cameroon context not because it is a different syllabus, but particularly because we focus on a
conceptual understanding of themes and we adopt a skilled based learning approach.
*Three particular trends are worthy of note.
Counting forward for addition and counting backwards for subtraction which will be taught in
class 1. The traditional method of adding and subtracting by strokes will be taught in Nursery 1
and 2.
Skip counting for multiplication and division to be taught in class 2. the traditional method of
multiplying (doubling) and dividing (splitting) objects will be taught in class 1.
In English, the introduction of reading through rhyming words. The use of drama, songs, and
poems. The understanding of concepts, perceptions and expression through picture reading are
all key trends.
*Please note that from class three, we begin focus on the Cameroon curriculum to
prepare pupils for the General Common Entrance exams written in class 6. Previous
experience and statistics have proven that kids unable to read and as well as unable to
do fast pace mathematical calculations (particularly pupils coming from other schools)
find it difficult to coupe with our in depth analysis of the Cameroon curriculum at this
stage. Unfortunately, that is why we require a pre entry test for new pupils entering into
our school from class one upwards.