Wingu Academy has refined its online and homeschooling offering to provide a comprehensive Grade 7-9 curriculum.
This curriculum targets learners aged 13-15 and features a robust educational framework designed to cultivate the right skills and mindset for future success.
Grade 7-9 is particularly critical in a learner’s academic journey, as it bridges lower and higher education.
Wingu Academy’s curriculum has, therefore, been meticulously designed to foster intellectual growth, critical thinking, and practical skills.
Learning with Wingu Academy
The Grade 7-9 education Wingu Academy offers its students covers all the essential subjects learners need to obtain a well-rounded foundation for their higher education studies.
These include:
Mathematics is the backbone of Wingu Academy’s Grade 7-9 offering, as it directly improves a learner’s analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Its lessons cover essential content such as numbers, calculating, measuring, ratios and proportions, geometry, algebra, and statistical thinking.
Wingu Academy also leverages online tools and showcases real-world applications to help learners engage with the content on a more relatable level.
Wingu Academy’s science curriculum seamlessly links scientific knowledge with technological processes, and is an essential subject in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The lessons integrate multiple STEM disciplines and allow learners to participate in hands-on experiments and interactive sessions, too.
This fosters logical thinking and practical skills that are ideal for securing jobs in the technology and engineering fields.
The Wingu Academy entrepreneurship curriculum helps nurture and prepare learners for future business ventures and is structured into two phases across two years.
The first phase covers foundational concepts, such as developing a growth-focused and customer-centric mindset, while the second phase covers the practical skills necessary to build a business.
The global perspectives curriculum enhances learners’ research and analytical skills by exposing students to Oxford and Cambridge academic principles.
The lessons encourage learners to approach topics methodically and develop their information-gathering skills while presenting logical arguments.
Wingu Academy’s history curriculum delves into significant historical triumphs, challenges, and transformative moments.
This is done in a way that helps learners develop critical thinking skills, and develop cultural empathy and global awareness by connecting historical events and contemporary challenges.
Wingu Academy’s coding and robotics curriculum uses Arduino microcontrollers to ensure learners grasp fundamental concepts in this field.
The lessons use hands-on experimentation and project-based learning to develop STEM skills while nurturing creativity.
Wingu Academy offers multiple language options to help learners develop their linguistic skills.
This includes local languages such as English and Afrikaans, as well as international dialects like German, French, and Spanish.
