• challenge learners to exercise their growing capacity and sense of agency by leading and engaging in projects that have authentic value in the world. They will be supported by their teachers, a community of expert learning partners, dedicated time, access to relevant resources and a spaced and distinctly designed curriculum.

• foster strong links between education, training and work, to strengthen pathways into work or further study for individual students. No module will be taught in isolation and contextualisation will always be provided so that learning is not done in a vacuum. 

• create socially responsible learners by including outreach work into the curriculum and embracing the key skills students will learn when participating in philanthropy. 

• engage students in authentic, real world learning experiences beyond the classroom with opportunities for students to become leaders and active participants in effecting change. This will mean expanding networks and partnerships.

• be creative leaders in learning, provide opportunities for experiential learning with learner-led initiatives.

• engage learners in exercises that strengthen their voice, choice and creative confidence and their ability to identify and solve authentic problems. 

• weave entrepreneurship into the learner experience in collaboration with external partners. Entrepreneurs will develop critical attributes that will distinguish our learners in their secondary and post-secondary learning and throughout their lives, whatever path they choose. 

• provide offsite learning with an extensive network of external learning partners which further enriches the learning experience. 

• ensure that 25% of the internships provided will create a real sustainable difference and impact in the communities and organisations in which the learners will volunteer. This social responsibility will be covered in our Life Orientation curriculum.

Our dedicated hostel parents provide children with a home away from home, in close collaboration with our teachers. Here on the farm just outside the east of Pretoria, our boarders enjoy hearty meals, soak up nature, fresh air and loads of social interaction. Study time is scheduled (as is phone time!) and supervised during the week and help with homework on hand when needed.

There is a strong emphasis on a reassuring routine, outdoor time and supervised use of television and electronic equipment. We offer the children the opportunity to participate in any of The High School’s extra-mural activities.

The hostel parents keep in touch with the parents on a regular basis. Social events are organised for parents and hostel parents to get to know each other and for parents to get a feel for their child’s boarding school experience.

Weekly boarders are signed out on a Friday afternoon once all school commitments have been met. They can be signed in again on Sunday afternoons before 19:00, or on a Monday morning before 07:30. All boarders are required to leave the boarding house over the mid-term breaks, certain closed weekends and the school holidays.