Principal's Message
Education today is truly an amazing process. Around 80% of the children we are teaching now will be either self employed or working in roles not yet invented.
The question raised is how are we going to prepare our young students for the future?
The following quote may hold the key to what education of the 21st Century should be aiming at.
Bill Beattie:
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think - to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
To be successful in the 21st Century the following knowledge, skills, understandings and attributes will be needed:
- Lifelong learning
- Demand for creativity, enterprise and collaboration
- Self managed
- Demonstrate adaptability in a rapidly changing environment
- Apply negotiating skills while demonstrating personal responsibility
- Work in collaboration with others
- Identify and apply cultural diversity
- Identify and apply the benefits of service to others
- Focus and apply creativity in problem solving
- Demonstrate technological literacy and problem solving
- Find and communicate paper based and digital information
- Learn new skills and assimilate new ideas quickly
- Take initiative and be self directed
- Apply abstract thinking techniques
Identify problems and develop solutions.
We know that attitudes to work are formed early in life so it is our role as educators, both as parents and teachers, to give children as many opportunities as possible.
Here at Vardy’s Road we are aspiring to do this.
The many and varied programs on offer at Vardy’s Road Public School will certainly prepare your child for the future.
A quality education in a caring environment.
Vicki Halverson
Principal