Schools gear-up for heritage-based curriculum, skills identification

Several schools expressed their commitment to embrace heritage-based curriculum in their quest to compliment the government's educational policy on Monday.

Speaking during a survey by Bawayo24.com on schools, parents and government's curriculum adoption, preparedness and implementation for the 2025 first term period; several schools have announced that all systems are in place for learners to start routine lessons.

Afro-Bank Christian High School founder, Mr Ruzai Machaurawa claimed that their major priority during term is to make sure that learners are introduced to education meant to transform various communities throughout the country.

"We are targeting to provide education to learners premised on projects and practicals which compliment communities demands. Heritage-based education will be our major thrust where we compliment the government's educational policy initiatives," Muchaurawa said.

"We will also be targeting to nurture learners with basic mechanisms which enable them to join vocational training institutions to acquire necessary skills as espoused in the country National Development Strategies prerequisites," Muchaurawa added.

"We have established both boarding and day school facilities to learners in order to ensure we provide education for all regardless of the parent's level of income or geography. Our aim is to provide education with convenience given that the school is located adjacent to the capital city (Harare) to avoid expenses on transport during visits, convenience to basic facilities and cost-cutting measures," Muchaurawa said.

"We establish these facilities in order to serve both urban and peri-urban populace in our quest to create an enabling environment for low to medium income earners (parents). We are also targeting to avoid circumstances where learners would travel long distances to school and provide low teachers to pupils/students ratios," Muchaurawa said.

Masuka Christian High School spokesperson, Mr Simon Masuka claimed that it is a duty of private schools to compliment heritage-based curriculum since the economy demands skills acquired from grassroots.

"Everything should be complimentary and as private schools, it is our duty to ensure that the quality of education we provide transforms various societies," Masuka said.

"Skills and knowledge acquired from grassroots levels should commensurate existing educational curriculum. We need to embrace curriculum which feeds into all sectors of our economy as prescribed by skills development trends in order to attain an upper-middle income economy by the year 2030," Masuka said.

"We would also like to ensure that learners take sports as part of education. It is important to note that these schools are also part of grassroot skills identification and development, hence we play an integral part in complimenting government initiatives," Masuka said.