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FUTURE-READY

EDUCATION AT BRESCIA

HOUSE SCHOOL
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eveloping students beyond (SDG 6 – Clean Water and the South African context while
the traditional curriculum Sanitation); investigating global best practices.
is central to Project-Based • Grade 5 investigated food poverty As part of the PBL, our students
Learning (PBL). Drawing on (SDG 2 –Zero Hunger); and undertook tasks such as creating a
Dideas such as those from the • Grade 6 engaged with energy shopping list to feed a family of four
World Economic Forum’s Skills for the poverty (SDG 7 – Affordable and on a highly restrictive budget. Our
Future and the Microsoft 21st Century Clean Energy). students developed their research
Learning Design (21CLD) framework, skills, used the design thinking
Brescia House School has reimagined During the PBL programme, the methodology to develop workable
the curriculum to make Project-Based timetable was collapsed on particular solutions, and used their ICT devices
Learning central to our student’s days to enable inter-disciplinary throughout the learning process.
experience. working across the subjects. The
PBL activities were designed to In the High School, the Grade 9
The Intermediate Phase (Grades 4 to 6) develop 21st-century skills such students continued with their core
took up the challenge of investigating as collaboration, knowledge subjects of Mathematics, English, and
problems based on the United Nations construction, skilled communication, First Additional Languages, but all
Sustainable Development Goals for real-world problem-solving, self- other subjects were taught through
2030, which are a global call to action. regulation, and the use of ICT in inter-disciplinary, custom-designed
• Grade 4 explored water poverty learning. Our students focused on projects. Our teachers, certified in the

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