THE E–TEAM add excitement, entertainment and enjoyment to learning, while stimulating lateral thinking processes and enhancing the student’s ability to process information.
THE E–TEAM members encourage the student to:
• develop and expand his/her thinking abilities
• gain confidence in expressing ideas
• ‘take risks’ with his/her learning
• improve his/her ability to work independently
• develop and refine base skills.
THE E–TEAM characters promote in the student:
• the desire to learn, the ability to communicate effectively through reading, writing, speaking and listening.
• a basic understanding of the number system leading to the ability to perform accurately the basic mathematical operations, to calculate and to measure, and to use these skills in every-day situations.
• an awareness of the physical, biological, social, and cultural environments and some of the key concepts involved in understanding these.
• an appreciation of, and the ability to express themselves in, the main forms of art, including literature, film, drama, dance, music and the fine arts.
• the ability and disposition to think clearly, independently, and critically and to make rational decisions.
• the ability and disposition to be imaginative and creative and to be adaptable and flexible in a changing world.
• the ability and disposition to co-operate with others, and an awareness and tolerance of other ways of thinking and behaving.
• a sense of identity, achievement and worth.
• an awareness of his/her body and a desire to keep it fit, healthy and safe.
THE E–TEAM encourages skills and personal development by:
• making observations and performing measurements.
• asking questions, formulating ideas and devising experiments.
• planning, carrying out activities and drawing conclusions.
• recording, organizing information and communicating results.
• finding similarities, differences, patterns and relationships.
