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Go Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Small Classes, Flexibility and Curriculum to Succeed
Your child's schooling experience should be one of the most exhilarating and fulfilling periods of their life. However, traditional schooling norms often fall short of delivering this promise. At Ambition International School, we set our sights much higher. Our goal is for every learner to emerge with exceptional success and significant personal and professional growth, all within a nurturing and supportive environment that promotes relaxation and comfort.
"Ambition International School is committed to delivering an enriching educational journey that nurtures lifelong learning, critical thinking, and global citizenship. Within our secure and supportive environment, we instill values of integrity, responsibility, self-respect, and empathy. Embracing diversity, we cherish our cultural heritage and foster an inclusive community. We believe in providing every child with a top-tier education, tailored to their unique needs, to empower them to excel academically, socially, and emotionally."
An exclusive Private School in Gordon's Bay
The Sky's The Limit
We are committed to offering your children a dedicated and secure learning environment that guides them towards academic success. Our approach integrates proven educational methodologies, such as the Trivium method, into all aspects of teaching. Additionally, we leverage cutting-edge technology like the MobyMax Curriculum to extend learning beyond the classroom and into the home, ensuring a seamless educational experience that prepares students for the challenges of tomorrow.
Flexibility for Growth
Class Setup
At our school, learners progress through three main groupings based on their grade levels. Initially, they join a mixed-age class encompassing Grades 1 to 4. Subsequently, they transition to the next grouping comprising Grades 5 to 8. Finally, they enter the last phase, Grades 8 to 12, culminating in their Matric equivalent.
Grouping learners in this manner fosters positive interaction across different age groups and allows for individualized advancement or remediation based on each student’s unique progress. Learners have the flexibility to move ahead of their grade level in areas where they excel or to revisit and strengthen challenging concepts as needed.
The Sky's The Limit with our
Passionate Teachers
Our teachers are not only selected for their love and passion for education but also for their high qualifications and expertise in their respective fields. Within our private school setting, they utilise a flexible schedule to adapt the course of learning, offering a blended approach that caters to the diverse needs of all learners.
Through our advanced systems, teachers have the capability to closely monitor each learner’s progress and provide remote assistance, even when off-campus. This means that no learner is left behind, as immediate support can be extended to those who may be inactive or showing minimal progress.
Furthermore, our systems empower teachers to access detailed progress reports and analyse data to identify learners who require assistance in specific standards or concepts. With this information at hand, teachers can conduct focused sessions to reteach and provide tailored instruction to address individual weaknesses, ensuring that every learner receives the support they need to thrive academically.
Enabling the Digital Transition
Tools Required
All learners are required to source their own “tools” for the job:
Laptop – with the following minimum specifications:
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Operating system: Windows 7
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Processor speed: 166 MHz
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Memory: 2 Gig ram
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Monitor/Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080 or higher
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Wired Accessories: Headphones (No earphones) and external mouse (NO wireless PLEASE!!)
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Carry bag: Bring along a laptop carry bag or similar to be able to transport laptop and stationery to and from home each day.
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Internet access: Internet will be provided during school times.
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Stationery: each grade will require basic sets of stationery. See menu option "Stationary" above.
A Learning Platform to fill Gaps or excel
MobyMax Curriculum
We use the advanced MobyMax international recognised curriculum to help our students progress quickly, efficiently and at their pace. From award-winning curriculum to algebra, from formative assessments in State Standards Checker to benchmark tests in Benchmarker, from adaptive practice to fluency games, MobyMax is a comprehensive and complete education solution.
This is the premier technical education platform in the world, having achieved over 215 education awards (ten times the closest competitor) in helping learners close their learning gaps and help challenge gifted students.
Teachers have enrolled over 15 million kids in MobyMax, which is used in more than 50% of all K-8 schools in the United States.
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Supporting and Motivating Learners
Learners are supported constantly by their teachers in their home room class and can also see when learners are actively working or when idle, either being distracted or struggling and need assistance.
Learners are also able to work remotely in times when they cannot come into campus due to external factors of any kind, such as lockdowns. Learners can reach out at any time via the built-in platform messenger and can request assistance and be helped remotely as though they were in the classroom.
The reason MobyMax’s effectiveness is double that of other leading solutions is that learners are motivated not only with Real Rewards, but also a dozen different motivation modules, from badges to game time.The secret sauce of MobyMax is finding the right blend that maximises student motivation but minimizes the amount of “motivation” time to achieve the results.
Baseline Assessment
Arguably the biggest threat and challenge for any learner within a group environment, is that everyone learns at their own cognitive pace. This typically is good for some and bad for others when more challenging work is encountered, and some learners start falling behind (especially if they have gaps in previous work or even past years.)
In a traditional school system, the teacher cannot possibly customize a special plan for those not keeping up and by the time the learning-gap is not identified, its likely at the year-end exams and that lower competency is “written in-stone.” The learner moves onto the next grade, never to remedy those lacking areas. Over the years this creates large holes in understanding and that relates in to challenges within a specific subject forever.
A highly successful strategy of our MobyMax curriculum is that each learner completes a baseline assessment at the start of their year. This creates a customized and unique learning path, with the correct curriculum for the learner to plug any learning gaps or alternatively be challenged to advance ahead, while they work on their own proficiency level and at their own pace.
Learners automatically begin fixing missing skills from the automatic placement test and over time will catch up entirely.
Subject Choice
Programmes are offered in English. Children with Afrikaans as their home language quickly adapt to the English MobyMax, working at their own pace.
The learning curriculum currently focuses on seven complete feature subjects covering all grades between kindergarten and grade 9 (K-G9): Maths, English Home Language (language, handwriting, creative writing and reading), Physics, Biology, History, Geography, EMS (Economics.)
For our high school students, exams will depend on the matric option they have chosen.
Parent Monitoring
Parents and teachers can log in at any time to view their child or learner’s progress from the parent portal. Each learner works on advancing their proficiency level at their own pace. This feature makes our programme ideal for learners that have fallen behind and also for exceptional students who need a challenge.
MobyMax's completely integrated system shows 360-degree progress monitoring as well as reporting for student, parent, teacher, principal, and district administrators. All content and reporting are available online at any time.
Assessments and Exams
In real adult life, we discover that our work and learning are often observed by real-time assessment and monitoring.
To mirror this, our learners in grades K – 9 do not write exams as we prefer the continuous assessment approach, identifying and correcting issues or challenging learners on the fly, adjusting their learning curriculum. Assessments are administered and reported on by the MobyMax system.
Homework
We do not have a policy to enforce additional homework on the learners. We know as parents, work brought home often becomes an additional negative factor on the professional working parents and even creates stress between the child-parent relationship. For this reason, we do not typically set homework.However, remember that the curriculum is always available online with your child’s progress, 24/7. We rather suggest that parents can bond with their child and gently monitor progress by accessing their work with their child and encourage their performance. Sometimes the learner may also want to do additional preparation for upcoming assessments.
We would rather encourage parents to creating bonding time, reading books and stories of interest with their children, and practising times tables and creating fun games out of learning exercises.
Preparing for Graduation from Grade 9
As learners enter the last stretch from Grade 9 onwards we offer multiple ways to prepare for graduation.
GED® or American High School Diploma (AHSD.)
The GED® is a trusted, internationally recognised high school equivalency credential offered by the GED® Testing Service.
The Advanced American High School Diploma, also called College Prep or Honors Diploma and despite the name, is equivalent to the Cambridge A levels, South African Matric or “Grade 13.”
You can study further or get a better job with a GED® or AHSD credential. It opens the doors to the next step in your education or working career and it’s a foreign grade 12 equivalent. SAQA (the South African Qualifications Authority) has evaluated the GED® and found the National Senior Certificate (NQF level 4) as its closest comparable qualification.
We mention this for our younger learners in order to understand the progression and will break it down further as we discuss each grade category and graduation options following.
Flexibility for Growth
Trivium Method
This method comprises of the first three rules-based subjects of the 7 Liberal Arts and Sciences. As these disciplines are learned and practiced together, they form the central, cooperative system for establishing clarity and consistency of personal thought called the Trivium.
During our afternoon session, learners incorporate critical-cross-field learning such as times tables, reading and writing incorporating the Trivium Method.
The three subjects are:
General Grammar
Grammar and communication within our world are vital. Learners understand to answer the questions of Who, What, Where and When of a subject and improve their grammar and communication skills with systematic knowledge.
Formal Logic
This answers the Why of a subject. This builds an understanding of learning facts, the big picture and why things are the way they are and why they work with systematic understanding.
Classical Rhetoric
Over time learners will hone their skills to provide the How of a subject. Applying their knowledge and understanding from the first two, this successfully comprises wisdom.
Peace and Outdoors
Farm Style Environment
Having our campus situated in a farm environment is often overlooked as an acute advantage. Research has proved time and again that a happy child in a peaceful environment aids learning.
All learners have the advantage of wide-open spaces and the ability to interact, feed and learn about farmyard animals on the campus, getting some of the best pollution-free-air in the world, into their lungs.
Children are free to bring their bicycles with to ride around the campus getting additional exercise and playtime.
Be Safe and Confident Around Water
Learn to Swim
Over 400 000 people die annually from drowning, and this could be radically overcome if children learned this amazing skill. All children are advanced through a swimming programme designed to give them confidence and safety in the water.
Once a week all learners will have a lesson in our tropically warm indoor filtered pool on campus. As we highly believe in this skill this activity is included for all learners.
Fun and Incentives
Splash Park
As we have a Splash Park on campus as part of the swimming pool, it will be opened on special extra hot days or as a special treat or privilege.
Projects and Interests
Creative Fridays
Friday is such a fun day we’ve kept it dedicated to learning but “flipped the classroom” by mixing in alternate activities that all too often are overlooked these days.
Activities such as typing, and creative projects are just some of the fun interests learners will experience come Fridays.
Increase Oxygen and Flexibility
Exercise Classes
Leaners attend a weekly strategy to reduce stress and help increase flexibility, balance and fitness (and a variety of other health conditions).
Snacks and nutrition
Lunch and Tuck Shop
We focus our primary energies on providing an exceptional educational experience for your most precious asset – your children. How they traverse this part of their life and how successful they are during this time will forge them into the powerhouses of tomorrow.
While nutrition forms part of this journey we believe that the family unit is most knowledgeable and best geared for understanding the incredible complexities that come with learners’ tastes, allergies, cultures, daily preferences, and palate desires.
Kindly pack a nutritious lunch that your child will enjoy.
An on-campus tuck shop will be opened during breaks that offer learners snacks, drinks, and hot beverages.
Supporting You
Holiday Care Classes
We understand that parents don’t get the holiday benefits that school going children do, so we do offer a Holiday Care programme where children can enjoy the farm style environment in a safe setting.
Loving other points of view
what They have to say
For thousands more reviews from teachers and students go to this link:
https://www.mobymax.com/rave-reviews
"MobyMax is awesome because it works on fixing learning gaps students have in their prior learning. Also, the class likes to compete with each other to see who can complete the most lessons and act like it's a game."
Tony VinsonSummerfield High School
"We love MobyMax! It helps my students bridge gaps, while also pushing them further. My students push themselves to complete certificates, which encourages them to do more."
Nicole LetteerGreater Nanticoke Area School District
"I absolutely love MobyMax! It gives me the opportunity to meet my students where they are and set goals as to where they need to be. The students get immediate feedback on their work and that is a plus. They are receiving opportunities to self correct and use the test taking skills that I have been teaching. All around it is an excellent classroom tool."
Sara MontielDonna Wernecke Elementary School
Thank you Larne.
I am so impressed!
You and the school have done such a fantastic job in teaching mVano.
This video is the evidence of the enormous strides he has made in the few short months he has been at Ambition International School
As I said to you it has been wonderful and heartwarming to see the personal input you are making into each of the diverse students and the time and thought and kindness that you devote to every lesson.
Thank you so much for the BRILLIANT job you are doing
I couldn't be happier with the school, its ethos and the wonderful staff.
Bravo!
Kevin CreaseyParent
MobyMax is invaluable in my classroom. Students use MobyMax during intervention times while I am working with small groups. I love that I can give students assessments through MobyMax. Then I can assign students tasks/lessons based on their individual needs. Like most teachers, I have students at such different levels, MobyMax lessons make it easier to differentiate. Students also love the jokes and games. One of my favorite features is the "Real Time." While I am working with small groups, I can monitor what students are doing at their desks while attending to the student needs at my table.
Oak Tree Elementary, AZTeacher
MobyMax offers so much for students and teachers. Students enjoy MobyMax for the engaging lessons and practice opportunities it provides. The children feel accomplished when their practice is provided with immediate feedback all right from within MobyMax. Teachers love MobyMax for all the different components involved. Teachers can even add IEP goals to provide individual support for each student. MobyMax has thought of everything and makes it readily available to teachers and students.
Birmingham City Exceptional Education, ALTeacher
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A "Day in the Life" at our campus
Daily Schedule
Drop off (07h30 to 08h00)
Core School (08h00 to 13h30)
School starts at 08h00 and runs through to 13h30. At appropriate times, there will be two encompassed short breaks for a snack, fresh air and getting in some stretching.
Lunch (13h30 to 14h00)
Trivium Method – Grade 8 and up. (14h00 to 15h00)
After lunch learners, return to learning for the final session of the day wherein we incorporate critical field learning such as times tables, reading and writing incorporating the Trivium Method.
Formal School Ends (13h30 for Grade 1-7 and 15h00 for the rest of the school)
Aftercare (provided up to 17h30)
Learners are monitored but allowed to play around the campus on the jungle gym, riding their bicycles, animal feeding and enjoying the farm style environment.
Holiday care (08h00 to 17h30)
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We can’t complete this journey with you, without the aid of our partners, their systems and ideologies.
