We started this school as a response to a call we felt to address the needs in our community for individual education and upliftment. As educators, we are passionate about providing opportunities for ALL students to thrive. Our school embraces a community that learns, grows, and improves—together.
Through regular professional practice sessions, and by encouraging learning with proven solutions and support, our educators create the environment to ensure successful results.
Grade 1 to 12 education
- Students are diagnosed academically and placed on the appropriate level.
- Student -teacher ratio 1:15 maximum
Biblical Based Curriculum
Teaching Biblical values, character building and leadership development
Autonomous Learning
Autonomous learning is defined as an approach to learning with which learners hold the power or right to regulate and control their own learning activities. Learners are in charge of their own learning processes with autonomy. Autonomous learning is also called self-directed learning.
Learning to learn is essential in the development of a self-regulated, autonomous learner. Teaching the skills of researching, developing critical and creative thinking, communication skills, and social and self-management abilities is key for learners today (OECD, 2018).
There are many examples of learners who excelled academically thanks to sheer grit and commitment to hard work. That is the work ethic expected from learners.
Our curricula promote self-discipline and autonomous learning, and are aimed to guide our learners develop the ability to study through self-paced learning. Although the required pass mark is a minimum of 70%, the aim is not merely to help learners get good marks, but to prepare them for study at a tertiary level, where discipline and self-paced learning are crucial keys for success.
Student-centered learning emphasizes each student’s interests, abilities, and learning styles, placing the teacher as a facilitator of learning for individuals rather than for the class as a whole.
In a teacher-centered classroom, teachers choose what the students will learn, how the students will learn, and how the students will be assessed on their learning. In contrast, student-centered learning requires students to be active, responsible participants in their own learning and with their own pace of learning.
Educational mindsets and instructional methods that recognize individual differences in learners, emphasizes each student’s interests, abilities, and learning styles, placing the teacher as a facilitator of learning for individuals rather than for the class as a whole.
A range of initiatives is in place to promote academic excellence at Jahari, including:
- Autonomous learning through self-paced learning
- Integration of a fully digital study platform that allow in-class differentiation
- Integrating a flipped classroom approach where appropriate
Excellent academic standard
- Aims to develop learner autonomy and independence by putting responsibility for the learning path in the hands of students by imparting them with skills and basis on how to learn a specific subject
- Focus on skills and practices that enable lifelong learning and independent problem-solving.
- Emphasizes the learner’s critical role in constructing meaning from new information and prior experience.
Dedicated staff
Our staff create a learning environment for all learners – a place of shelter, a place called home, a place where individuals are valued, a place where values are essential, learning is central and potential is released.
Registered with the Gauteng Department of Education
- We are registered as an independent combined school
- We are internationally recognised with the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and UniversitiesSA (USAf)
- USAf recognises our graduation certificates as a foreign equivalent (NQF4) to the South African national grade 12.
Other activities
- Computers: All of our students from grade 9 and upwards will learn the Microsoft Office suite as a part of the curriculum. This is a minimum requirement to be able to operate computers in the business world
- Sport: Physical training is done on Fridays, and includes practicing for participation in local, provincil, and national sports events. These sports include Soccer, netball and athletics. The large pool is mainly used for fun days and cooling off after sporting events in the summer
- Student convention: An annual event where students showcase their talents, together with students from all over the country.
Jahari Christian Academy Contact Details
- Address 12 8th Road, Rynfield AH, Benoni, South Africa
- Tel: 064 506 3608 (Office)
- Cell: 084 240 1899 (Administrator)
- Cell: 084 264 1286 (Founder)
- Main email: [email protected]
- Admin email: [email protected]
- Postal address: PO Box 11518, Rynfield, Benoni, 1514