About

In Junior Primary and Grade R, we focus on building character and inspiring young minds through specialised areas that are constantly being adapted to keep up to date with changing trends. These include:

1. Thinking Skills: Habits of Mind, Thinking Maps and Visible thinking routines
2. Emotional Intelligence (EQ),
3. Big Sisters, Saints’ Sisters Family Groups and the Buddy programme: Social Emotional Learning
4. A focus on reading using the Time to Read Programme
5. Allowing girls to express themselves in our Creativity Centre.

Each girl’s personal growth is developed in a caring environment – focusing on growing their unique strengths, and encouraging them to value and develop friendships.

Learning in a loving, caring environment gives our Junior Primary and Grade R girls’ (known as Little Saints) a strong foundation. Our experienced, nurturing teachers cultivate and instil curiosity and a love of learning in girls with a major focus on their holistic development. Our philosophy is to promote a Growth Mindset and to challenge them to be curious. Through educational games, use of our world-class Creativity Centre (or CC as our girls call it) and free play, we inspire young minds – developing cognitive, social and creative thinking skills. A nature of spirituality is taught and encouraged in this phase staying true to our motto ‘Service Before Self and God Before All‘.

In our classrooms, we have enhanced sound systems that improve acoustics to create an optimal learning environment. These FM systems make it easier for children to hear the teacher clearly in the midst of general classroom noise – to maximise their listening skills and learning.

We also offer an aftercare facility, ‘Saints Kids’, for girls in Junior Primary and Senior Primary for your daughter’s safety, run by three full-time staff open every afternoon after school until 17:00. Girls are given a snack, supervised during homework, and enjoy time playing with their friends.