Owner of School: Jacobs Well Village NPC
Established in 2008, by Pierre and Anke du Toit, Jacobs Well Village is a Non-Profit Company (NPC) and a Non-Governmental Organisation.
Owner of School: Jacobs Well Village NPC
Established in 2008, by Pierre and Anke du Toit, Jacobs Well Village is a Non-Profit Company (NPC) and a Non-Governmental Organisation.
Our definition of a good education is that every learner should be equipped with academic, vocational, creative, personal, emotional, leadership and other life skills to serve in their communities, whether home, workplace or university.
Jacobs Well Schools are multi-lingual and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, race or religion. We follow Biblical principles.
Our first school was established in 2008 in Valhalla, Centurion, Pretoria. Benoni is our second High School. A Pre-School for Early Childhood Development was established in 2012 in Raslouw, Centurion.
We make use of teachers and assistants so that the ratio remains 1:20.
Learners wear a branded golf shirt (available at the school @ +-R130) with denim jeans and tekkies. In winter branded jerseys and windbreakers will be added.
Jacobs Well Schools encourage mentor-protégé relationships of trust. In this process more skilled and experienced mentor leads, teaches, counsels and encourages the protégé to complete their assignments in the context of ongoing nurturing, within a disciplined framework. We therefore have teachers that are passionate about children and have a calling for education.
Learners are encouraged to share their joyous and painful experiences with their mentors. Jacobs Well Schools are associated with registered counsellors who help not only our learners, but also their families. Professionals we trust can help assess IQ, interest and aptitude to determine study directions for learners at reasonable costs.
Jacobs Well Schools offers an option that is different from the normal classroom situation to provide individualised facilitation as learners progress at their own pace. Though the classroom has an informal atmosphere, it is a disciplined educational environment.
Tina Cowley Remedial Reading in English and Afrikaans is on offer during school hours or after school hours at an affordable additional cost. After a once off evaluation session, a qualified trainer will present 45 minute sessions once per week in English and once per week in Afrikaans. The sessions ends with Perceptual Development that also aids Maths.
Tina Cowley Neuro Focus Therapy, which comes as highly recommended as a separate value-added service to support learners with ADHD or focus and concentration problems, is also available at an extra cost.
Costs:
Since reading and writing skills are the foundations of education, an improvement of between 4% – 60% in learner’s average marks are achieved, depending on how much progress was gained through the Tina Cowley program.
We offer the CAPS Curriculum using text books as advised by the Gauteng Dept of Education. Blended learning, i.e. making use of teachers in class and remotely via technology, enables Jacobs Well Schools to make excellent schooling affordable. The subjects that will be presented at this school, using blended learning (real time and remote) are:
At Jacobs Well Schools we believe that every child should be computer literate so that they are ready for the job market or university. During school hours they will work for the following certificates:
Jacobs Well Schools focus on streamlining learners into either university exemption or vocational preparation.
As vocational option we offer tourism and hospitality because it is a growing industry worldwide. We will work together with the Guest Houses and Hotels where learners will do practical work at hotels and guest houses during school holidays to gain experience. This will give our learners the advantage of being exposed to the labour market and may place them in a preferential position for vacancies in those companies.
The learners will also on a first hand basis spend time in our fully equipped kitchen on campus which caters for up to 300 people per day. In this very kitchen the cooks were trained for Nelson Mandela’s inauguration banquet.
We have dedicated Math and Science teachers who are passionate about their subjects.
Learners are offered the normal academic schooling to prepare for university entrance to train for a profession. Learners who want to receive University Degrees are led to choose the right subjects for applications into their respective fields.
07h45 to 13h45 daily
School terms are the same as Gauteng Dept of Education.
Jacobs Well Schools are registered private schools at the Dept of Basic Education. The leaders of Jacobs Well Village have connections with the Finnish Education System, regarded as the best in the world, and implement some of their principles. Jacobs Well Schools’ leadership works with leaders in the Finnish Education System.
We envisage an exchange system where our learners and teachers will visit Finland.
Finnish learners and student teachers will visit SA to upgrade our service delivery to come in alignment with theirs, being the best in the world. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
We currently implement the following elements of the Finnish Education system:
We will also implement an exchange system where our learners, students and teachers will visit Finland. Finnish learners, students and teachers will visit SA to upgrade and ensure service delivery to our learners. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
An application for enrolment form is available on the internet. The fully completed form is emailed or handed in at the office. We approve enrolment of learners on an individual basis only after an interview.
Teachers, mentors and learners should demonstrate the following principles
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True education takes place constantly, regardless of time or place for children learn by what they live. General knowledge, behaviour patterns, respect, gratefulness, orderliness and discipline of the child are the responsibilities of the parent, not the education system. Jacobs Well Schools will endorse and support all of the above while a learner is on our premises. When a learner transgresses Jacobs Well Schools’ code of conduct, we expect the parent to endorse and support us.
We undertake to communicate openly regarding problems experienced by learners. Our teachers and mentors are dedicated and experienced youth workers who have helped many children and their parents. Should a parent have a problem with the mentors of Jacobs Well Schools, we value the same open discussion.