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Principals Pen • Wednesday, 07 Nov 2018

SUBJECTS AND DOT-CONNECTING

Have you ever stopped to think about how formal education was established? And why learning...

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Principals Pen • Monday, 29 Oct 2018

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

What constitutes student achievement? In which fields do we apply the term student achievement? Is...

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Principals Pen • Thursday, 11 Oct 2018

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

A question I was often asked as a child is, ‘What do you want to...

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Principals Pen • Wednesday, 12 Sept 2018

WHY MUSIC?

A well-rounded education requires us to tap into various parts of a child’s brain in...

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Principals Pen • Wednesday, 29 Aug 2018

TEACHERS, COACHES OR GUIDES?

I’m not a fan of the word teacher in the primary school setting. Firstly, it...

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Principals Pen • Wednesday, 15 Aug 2018

COLLABORATION

In Living Faith’s ‘Beliefs about Learning’ we say that, amongst other things, we strive for...

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Principals Pen • Monday, 06 Aug 2018

Project-Based Learning

Our biannual Exhibition Evenings showcase the culmination of a semester’s Project-Based Learning (PBL). But have...

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Principals Pen • Wednesday, 18 July 2018

FEEDBACK V FEEDFORWARD

Your child talks about feedforward. Some parents read about their child’s ability to respond to...

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Principals Pen • Wednesday, 13 June 2018

WHAT TO LOOK FOR AT...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this year, cofounder or Alibaba Group,...

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