Manor Gardens Primary School

The children at Manor Gardens Primary School are exposed to a variety of Maths Challenges throughout the year, achieving very high results.. These include:

AMESA MATHS

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We have a vibrant music programme at Manor Gardens which runs both within class music and in our extra-mural programme.

Class Music - Our children look at many genres of music, learn a wide variety of songs, study basic music theory, play xylophones, drums and other percussion instruments, compose music based on various themes, listen to music and respond with art, movement or by answering questions. On the completion of a theme, classes sometimes perform in an assembly or in our quarterly music evenings.

Gymnastics is one of the very few sports that uses the entire body. For example, soccer uses mostly legs, canoeing mostly arms, but gnastics uses legs, arms, the abdominal core, the back and brain.

We are fortunate to have gymnastics lessons offered at Manor Gardens Primary School for the Foundation Phase pupils. It is important that children are exposed to creative, fun ways in which to utilise their muscles and enhance their physical well-being.

Manor Gardens pupils have achieved well in the AMESA-KZN Mathematics Olympiad/Challenge with a number of pupils in the top 20 candidates in the grade 4 to 7 Olympiad, and in the top 15 candidates in the grade 8 Challenge. This year an estimated 50 000 wrote the qualifying first round in May and approximately 8 000 pupils participated in the final round on 20 August 2009.

Our comprehensive, ongoing programme includes learning about: religion, culture, the environment, heathy living, physical education, design and technology projects and much, much more.

Manor Gardens uses the Constructivist and Problem Solving Approach to teaching Maths.  Emphasis is on grasping the skills and understanding the concepts rather than a formula been taught.  Children are not passive recipients of transferred knowledge.  They are active participants in the construction of their own knowledge and as a result it is more meaningful.

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Manor Gardens uses the Psycholinguistic and Language Experience Approach to teaching Literacy. This method has been used successfully for the past 20 years.  It encourages reading for meaning and incorporating the child's own experiences when learning. This is integrated with Outcomes Based Education which encourages a focus on both the process of learning and the results.

Every year the children in each grade in each House are given a General Knowledge Quiz. They score points for their House and the children with the best results in each grade are selected to represent their house at the Annual Inter House General Knowledge Quiz. Children selected to represent their house are listed below.