Academic Program

Our carefully chosen curriculum and teaching approach is student centred and student paced. This enables us to meet the unique needs of any child and ensure that they master the core knowledge, skills and attitudes required to achieve their best results. We do not advance students through grades, but rather through skill levels, recorded individually. Students are grouped in classes based on their age, but advance through the curriculum based on their skills levels.

Academic Program

Our carefully chosen curriculum and teaching approach is student centred and student paced. This enables us to meet the unique needs of any child and ensure that they master the core knowledge, skills and attitudes required to achieve their best results. We do not advance students through grades, but rather through skill levels, recorded individually. Students are grouped in classes based on their age, but advance through the curriculum based on their skills levels.

Our Core Curriculum is Modelled on International Systems

As students master the ‘gaps’ in learning, they ultimately advance faster than children in mainstream schools and are capable of attaining excellent results in challenging international level exams. Our core curriculum is modelled on international systems which have proven to produce the best results. Our core curriculum includes a combination of British, Irish, Singapore and CAIE programs and assessments. We model our teaching approach on the International Baccalaureate Primary and Middle Years programs.

Phase 1 (5 - 8 yrs)

  • Skill levels are based on British and Cambridge curriculum
  • Thematic, inquiry-based approach to Sciences and Humanities
  • Structured mathematics programme using Singapore Mathematics approach
  • Music and movement
  • Additional languages


Phase 2 (9 - 11 yrs)

  • Skill levels are based on British and Cambridge curriculum
  • Thematic, inquiry-based approach to Sciences and Humanities
  • Structured mathematics programme using Singapore Mathematics approach
  • Music and movement
  • Additional languages


PHASE 3 (12 - 14yrs)

  • Cambridge Checkpoints curriculum for Mathematics, English and Sciences
  • Thematic, inquiry-based approach to Humanities and Arts
  • Music and movement
  • Additional languages

 

PHASE 4 (14 - 18 yrs)

  • Cambridge International (CAIE) curriculum
  • IGCSE + AS + A levels
  • Blended learning ‘tutor centre’ model
  • Our programme includes Life Skills training
  • We encourage ‘job shadowing’ and apprenticeship opportunities concurrent with theoretical studies

Cape Winelands International School