Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 8 August 2015 | Page 64

our educators are constantly
challenged to re-examine their
methodology and implement
successful interventions to improve
learning

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the outstanding success that the school is known
for today. But for our educational resurgence to
continue, Curro needs to reconsider the status quo
and apply new interventions.
The authors of the McKinsey report identified two
elements that were necessary for this to happen –
sustaining, which “is all about how a system puts in
place the processes for ensuring improvement in the
longer term” and ignition, which is described as “the
conditions necessary to spur a system to embark on
its reform journey”.
Curro is proud to have all of these elements in place.
At the Curro Centre for Educational Excellence
(CCEE), our educators are constantly challenged
to re-examine their methodology and implement
successful interventions to improve learning. Our
learners play an even greater role in the educational
process; they bring a lot to the table and do not rely
on simply being spoon-fed information.
Curro believes that a school is a community in which
our learners can develop their EQ and acquire the
necessary social skills, knowledge and experience.
Curro adheres to an educational value system that
honours child friendliness, a positive discipline

and Christian ethos with high values, and creative
thinking. Each of our schools is heavily involved in
their community, extending education beyond the
classroom walls. Our extensive outreach programme
allows us to seek ‘to be the light that brings warmth,
happiness and joy’ to the youth and involves the
school and community in making an ongoing
difference for the poor and helpless.
Curro has never wavered from its original vision of
creating an independent school education accessible
to all South African learners. The formal knowledge
our pupils will acquire through hard study and the
informal social graces of empathy and kindness that
they will glean from their school community will
prepare them to become proud parents and good
citizens.
More importantly is their ability to ask questions,
change the status quo and implement the next
resurgence necessary for transformation.
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