Grade 8 at SPARK High Schools

A confident start to high school

Give your child the skills, structure, and support they need to thrive from Grade 8 and beyond.

The move from primary school to high school is one of the most important shifts in your child’s education. Expectations increase, environments change, and students are suddenly expected to take more ownership of their learning. Without the right support, it’s easy for learners to feel overwhelmed during this transition.

What Makes Us Unique:

We integrate technology into the classroom to enhance learning, creating a stimulating, tech-enabled, data-driven environment.

Blended Learning Model

Offering scholars a personalised, interactive learning experience that fosters autonomy and prepares them for future academic success.

Innovative & Data-Driven Environment

Integrating cutting-edge technology in classrooms and focusing on data-driven teaching methods.

Holistic Scholar Development

Beyond academics, at SPARK Schools, we focus on our scholars’ social-emotional growth through daily physical education, life skills programmes, and confidence-building activities.

S.P.A.R.K is an acronym of our five core values:

Service

I serve my classmates, community and country.

Persistence

I am persistent - I never give up!

Achievement

I achieve my best in all that I do.

RESPONSIBILITY

I am responsible for my actions.

Kindness

I treat everyone around me with kindness.

Our curriculum aligns with the South African CAPS guidelines and the national assessment policy.

Our scholars are required to take the following subjects in their High School junior phase.

Character Building

Character Quotient and the 8 attributes to prepare your child for the future
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• On-site counselling services
• Peer Support
• Parent Support

Technology

• Personalized learning pathways
• Digital Literacy (Fight the digital divide)
• Catch-up programs (Intervention & extension)
• AI-informed personalisation and curriculum building

Project Based Learning

• Cross-curricular projects based on the 17 SDGs
• ESG principles-led curriculum
• Learning by doing/action

Academic Excellence

• Skills development and mastery
• Academic rigor that aims to raise the standard of education

CULTURE AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Central to building school culture and scholar character which includes daily CQ Sessions to build meaningful relationships between scholars and trained educators.

Focus areas

• Enhance individual character through self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and self-regulation.
• Develop Emotional and Adversity Quotients (EQ and AQ).
• Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Teach 21st-century skills and global citizenship.

Place-based education (PBE)

High schools partner with local industries to provide scholars with real-world experiences. FET Phase scholars spend two days a year in a workplace, such as a law firm, property sales, or product development.

Houses

SPARK's high school behaviour management system uses houses to build community, school spirit, and friendly competition, encouraging scholars to demonstrate core values that enhance academics.

Clubs

Clubs cater to scholar interests, from coding to choir, encouraging collaboration, leadership, and independence.

Student leadership (RCL)

The RCL upholds and promotes a scholar-driven culture at SPARK high schools.

Respect

SPARK high schools’ sixth core value is:
"I am a respectful scholar. I consider the rights and feelings of others."

5 High
Schools

in South Africa.

17,000+ Scholars

In SPARK schools across GAU and WC.

200+
Hours

of professional development for our educators annually.