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Herbert Taruwona Mbindi
Get Ahead
The Covid-19 pandemic really affected our children’s learning throughout 2020-22. To some these were wasted years. Yes, we may want time to reflect about the unpleasant experiences of these years but that doesn’t help much. We need to pick ourselves up and get ahead preparing for our children’s success in future.
As Trust Academy Bulawayo High School, an Associate Cambridge school, we are committed to nurture our students both spiritually and emotionally. Our aim is to ensure that our students become upstanding citizens, who believe in themselves and are proud of their communities.
Best classroom experience
Trust Academy Bulawayo High School purposefully run classes with low student-teacher ratio. It is the now normal that students must be taught to value their intimate space, value their personal space. They should avoid crowded learning environments for health and personal reasons. Our low-student teacher environment helps to ensure every child feel worthy and valued.
Individually our students feel complete and satisfied. For discipline reasons we want out students to avoid group thinking as group thinking sometimes spoils!
We want our teachers to be easily accessible and available to every student. They should exercise compassion and practice parental guidance. Students can ask for help in difficult subject areas or an exercise with fear of being laughed at or booed. That way students inculcated feelings of empathy one towards another. They easily collaborate on group assignments and exercises.
This prepares them for teamwork abilities in later life. We pride ourselves in ensuring our school live up to our mission of “training…for excellence”
Schooling for life
As a school we pursue this objective with the passion most don’t understand. We collectively focus on developing character and strive to ensure that every student reaches his/her full potential. We teach our students to learn as if they live forever #mindsetofachampion.
Why you may ask? Because we do not want them, now and later in life, to be dismayed or discouraged by difficulties! They should be able to think outside the box hence see viable alternatives instead of being stuck in a hole!
Fearless acceptance of challenges
Reality is that life has vicissitudes. It has ups and downs. Trust Academy Bulawayo High School’s learning culture is focused on instilling a fearless acceptance of life challenges as an appropriate preparing for future life. We want our students to nurture and be true to “the-you-in-you”.
This approach compels them to appreciate that every person is born with a moral compass which is the conscience that tells you “This is good. This is bad” So we want them to interrogate the “disciplined self within” each one of them so that they with force behave respectfully, orderly and be futuristic in approach all the time. Our children deserve our unconditional respect.
They have rights and these rights must be recognised and respected all times.
Our future, our values, our choices
The school aims to help students appreciate that who you are in life is a result of your values and choices. This is done through the school’s comprehensive career guidance programme. Through this programme learners are provided with the guidance and support they need to become able to assess career interests, explore occupations, proceed through job research process and prepare for graduate school. Truth is on leaving secondary schooling most students are never career ready.
Digital Technology
The school want its students to effectively adapt to new technologies. Students shall be helped to take note of the new reality that technology is now industry-specific hence they exposed to specific tools, software and hardware as well as other ICT programs they should be familiar with as a way of preparing them for future careers.
Professionalism and work ethic disposition
Students through their learning and stay in the school shall be trained on work habits such as punctuality, working productively, personal accountability, resilience, integrity and ethical behaviour.
Oral and Written Communication Skills
These are critical soft skills employer want in their employees. As a school we realise that it is critical to develop them in our students so that they grow with them for success in their work places. For that reason, the school shall hone these skills in classes through written work and public speaking.
Leadership
Trust Academy Bulawayo High School shall ensure that students gain valuable leadership experiences through campus programs and community service. The aim is ensuring students learn how to utilise the strengths of others to achieve common goals as well as how to use interpersonal skills to develop and motivate others
n Herbert T Mbindi is the Administrator of Trust Academy Bulawayo High School and the Professional Studies school. He can be contacted on Cell/WhatsApp 0773616665/0712212179.
Bongani Ndlovu