Arina Pieterse and Renea Olivier are the first students of ACA who started in Grade 1 and have since been in ACA. They are entering High School this year.
School will be closing for the end of first Term on 24 March 2011, after an excellent term, with lots of activities. This was the first term introducing Grade R into the school. School will be re-opening on 11 April at 8h00 kicking off with the Culture Fair Abilities and Motivations tests, testing all student’s learning strengths and weaknesses. Main sport for the second term is cross country. 4-10 May is the SASOL scifest in Ght.
Well done to Renea Olivier of Alexandria Christian Academy, who won the Snr Victrix Ludorum at both the Christian Interschools and EP Regional Swim Gala in PE in Feb 2011
ALEXANDRIA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY has been in existence for 9 years as a full school ranging from grades 1 – 12. The school follows the ACE way of learning where the whole philosophy is learning-based, not teaching-based. The requirement of planning and completing goals and units of work within given time frames; trains students in time management. When a child knows what the workload is and how much time he has to complete it, he is disciplined to plan and manage time in a responsible way. As a Christian parent, you want your child to have the best Christian education possible. It’s good to know that ACE has the same goal in mind for your child and has developed a highly effective Biblical and academic programme to equip your child to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
The school has produced three graduates all with full exemption equivalence and university entrance. One of our graduates was given membership to the Golden Key at the University of Pretoria, being in the top 15% of academic achievers at the university. The school has been awarded quality status by ACE, as a token of excellence, marking it as one of the top schools in ACE. Computer literacy is being taught from Grade 1, as one of the subjects in the school. The school won the trophies as winning teams at the Christian Interschools Athletics and Swim gala meetings, with 10 learners gaining provincial SACSSA colours in various sports.
Being the first graduate of Alexandria Christian Academy, I was often confronted with the question of the standard of my education in ACE, as being different from public schooling. Although much assurance was given by ACE students excelling in tertiary studies, it remained an uncertain factor in my future.
I started with the ACE curriculum in 2000 when I was in grade 4 and graduated in 2008. I enjoy being independent and working on my own, therefore ACE suited me perfectly.
By the grace of God I got accepted at the University of Pretoria to study towards a Veterinary Science degree, and I started my studies in 2009. Adapting to university was much easier than I expected. I expected it to be very challenging to go from working in my own office to attending lectures in lecture halls filled with hundreds of students, and I thought the other students that came from public schools would adapt easier than I would. However, I soon found that university is very similar to the ACE system of working. In university you also work independently most of the time. The lecturer mainly explains difficult concepts and tells you what to study, but after the lecture you still have to go read your textbook and do any example questions that there might be, which is very similar to working in PACEs.
In university you have to work hard from the first day of the term until the last. ACE taught me exactly that. Since we don’t have examination periods, the pace of working stays constant throughout the whole term.
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Regional competition held at Tarkastad, Plumb line Christian Academy, 4 students qualified for Southern Cape SACSSA colours
