Excella school, the quality education for your child

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00:00 Dear Parents, Guardians, Well-Wishers, You are most welcome to Excella School.

00:07 If you are just visiting us and considering enrolling your child, or indeed you have no

00:20 child, but plan to have one someday, or you know of parents or guardians who can benefit

00:26 from enrolling their children in our school, thank you so much. And if you have already

00:31 made the decision to enrol your child, thank you for choosing Excella School. This is the

00:37 opportune moment to furnish you with more information so that you can make an informal

00:41 decision. If you are yet to make a decision, and congratulate yourself that you have made

00:46 the right decision if you have already enrolled your child at Excella School.

00:51 We wish to share with you our educational vision, or simply put, our long-term educational

00:57 aim. We also wish to share with you the methodologies we shall employ to ensure that the vision

01:03 is realised. So, allow us to take you through the educational process, step by step.

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03:37 What kind of human beings will they be like? How different will they be from other adults

03:44 whose children will have gone through other schools?

03:47 To answer these questions, let us refer to what one of the highly renowned educationalists

03:51 once said, that "Education is that which remains when almost all you have learnt in

03:57 school is long forgotten." Indeed, whereas you may forget almost all the history and

04:03 chemistry you learnt in school, you cannot easily forget the humility, care and discipline

04:09 of the history or chemistry teachers if they were characterised by these fine attributes.

04:15 Whereas you may forget almost all the geography and physics you learnt at school, you may

04:20 not forget the strict but kind headmaster, you may not forget the disorganised and rough

04:25 biology teacher, and so on and so forth. The total summation of all this is what is

04:30 referred to as education, and you use more of this in your everyday life than what you

04:36 formally learnt at school.

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04:48 Excella School Educational Mission

04:51 Excella School seeks to offer an all-round education in an exciting and conducive educational

04:57 atmosphere which promotes children's personal freedoms and confidence to explore and experiment,

05:04 hence nurturing and developing their diverse talents with which they are endowed.

05:09 At Excella School, both child social and academic development are considered to be equally important

05:15 and complementary, hence our school motto, "In pursuit of balanced education."

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05:57 Teaching Learning Methodologies

06:00 In keeping with Excella School Educational Vision and Mission articulated above, the

06:05 teaching learning methodologies are child-centred in that they seek to equip the children with

06:10 all-round, hands-on experiences, hence sustainable educational skills.

06:16 The methodologies are pupil-centred in nature and are characterised by the following.

06:22 Recognition that Children Do Not Come to School Empty

06:26 A child does not come to school empty, on the contrary, he or she comes with different

06:31 sorts of knowledge, some of which the child is naturally endowed with, others which is

06:37 experiential, from parents or older siblings, relatives, neighbours, etc., with whom the

06:43 child interacts.

06:45 Excella School recognises that our teachers should begin with this knowledge with which

06:50 the children come to school, then build onto it. This is known as "from the known to

06:56 the unknown" teaching learning approach.

07:00 Let us share with you an example.

07:03 Instead of giving the definition of balanced diet in giving pupils lots of notes, the teacher

07:08 gives the pupils a group work activity which allows the pupils to identify why they don't

07:14 eat the same food at home every day and what would happen to them and their family if they

07:20 ate the same type of food every day. By approaching the lesson like this, the teacher will have

07:26 tapped the knowledge of the children which will facilitate him or her to teach them the

07:31 concept of a balanced diet.

07:34 Interactive Teaching Learning Atmosphere

07:38 All the children at Excella School sit in groups. The sitting arrangement speaks volumes

07:43 about the teaching learning process at our school. It is highly interactive. We recognise

07:48 that children have ideas and experiences to share and also need to own the teaching learning

07:53 process, indeed reiterating the fact that children do not come to school empty.

08:00 A child who interacts with both the school physical and human environment through planned

08:04 school activities will no doubt grow into a creative, critical-minded and intelligent

08:10 adult. This view is supported by the educational wisdom embodied in the saying that "When

08:17 I hear, I forget. When I see, I remember. But when I do, I understand."

08:24 The appropriate teaching learning approach highlighted by the above educational wisdom

08:29 is the one which offers children practical, hands-on experiences. This approach departs

08:36 from the traditional mindset of treating the teacher as a repository of knowledge and the

08:41 children as empty vessels which must be filled quite quickly.

08:46 Use of Modern Technology

08:49 Currently, we employ the following modern technology techniques to facilitate the teaching

08:55 learning process.

08:57 Computer Projector

08:59 We access educational materials from different parts of the world and project them onto a

09:04 giant screen. This means that we are able to access some of the best ideas from some

09:09 of the best teachers and educationalists far away from Rwanda.

09:14 Television Sets

09:16 Some classrooms are equipped with TV sets connected to star media featuring a number

09:21 of educational programs, the best being Smile of the Child.

09:25 One Laptop per Child Computers

09:28 Our children in primary school have access to this computer educational program which

09:33 helps them with a wide range of IT skills.

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09:57 Educational Delivery Assessment and Evaluation Methodologies

10:02 Once laid down the educational vision and mission for Accela and the teaching learning

10:07 methodologies to be employed in order to realise the noble goals, it is imperative that valid

10:13 and accurate assessment and evaluation methodologies are also laid down to measure progress towards

10:19 the achievement of the goals.

10:21 The Holistic Approach

10:23 Unless used carefully, assessment of progress can adversely affect children because invariably

10:29 they are the ones tested. Instead of assessing the quality of the teaching learning process,

10:35 at Accela School we break free from the tradition of focusing on the grades achieved by children

10:40 as the only yardstick of measuring progress towards achieving the set educational vision

10:46 and mission. Instead we employ a holistic approach by assessing quality of the educational

10:52 delivery in the different areas which constitute the educational delivery.

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