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Pecanwood College is a member of the Centurus
Colleges group that brings together exceptional resources
in education and provides exciting, value-added components
in the curriculum through the company's four specialised
pillars:
- academic and learning enrichment
- sports coaching and performance
- environmental education
- visual and performing arts
Graduates of Pecanwood College will thus emerge as fully
rounded individuals, moulded by the College's ethos and
opportunities, "prepared for life" and its challenges.
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude
rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles
of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was in the beginning, not just after we were finished
with it."
US President Lyndon B Johnson
Pecanwood College has formed a partnership with Africa
Nature Training - a specialist environmental education company
- to create an integrated learning programme with a strong
environmental ethos, and:
- To impress on our young people the need for a sustainable
environment.
- To impart, through enjoyment, knowledge of an exciting
world that exists outside urban boundaries.
- To expose learners to the bush and the wonders it contains
through age appropriate field trips.
- To culminate at senior level in an accredited diploma
in Environmental Studies that learners will be able to
use to pursue careers that will contribute to saving our
world.
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Pecanwood College will offer a comprehensive programme of
visual and performing arts activities that will ensure that
young people with artistic talent are fully catered for.
Pecanwood will have access to the following facilities:
- A fully equiped theatre associated with a prominent
performing arts company.
- Dance studios with sprung wooden floors, viewing areas,
change rooms, performing area and classrooms.
- A fully equipped art centre with teaching venues and
art studios.
The College will thus be equipped to offer specialised
tuition in:
- Artistic disciplines such as painting, photography,
jewellery design and ceramics.
- Musical options such as piano, orchestral instruments,
choral and individual singing, jazz and classical performance.
ACADEMIC AND LEARNING SUPPORT
Pecanwood College will offer a structured and specialised
learning support programme designed to achieve the following
:
- A full neuro-development assessment of learners at a
young age to establish soundness of nerve function, sight,
hearing and balance.
- Integrated learning therapy for all pre-preparatory
learners to strengthen learning skills.
- On site occupational and speech therapists with full
facilities to attend to children's needs.
- Provide an in-service team to train teachers and parents
in the management of learners' learning needs.
- Ensuring that gifted children remain stimulated by providing
challenging learning opportunities.
THE SPORTS INSTITUTE
Pecanwood College is working with sports specialists to
provide the following expert inputs for our learners:
- A structured, systematic physical education curriculum
that focuses on fun in exercise for all age groups.
- Regular professional evaluation of learners to establish
areas of strength in physical activity and monitor individual
development.
- High quality specialised coaching for all sports.
- Guidance for our sportsmen and women on sports nutrition,
physiology, sports psychology and exercise.
- Dedicated academies in key sports that will prepare
selected participants for provincial and international
competition.
- Participation in interschool and interclub competitions.
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