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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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