Mervyn Visagie

Rallim Pre I Prep I Secondary

Rallim is an independent, English medium, co-educational pre-preparatory, preparatory and secondary modern learning environment situated on the corner of Berkshire Boulevard and Deerhurst Drive in Sunningdale, along the West Coast of Cape Town. In partnership with Garden Cities, our doors will officially open in 2019 with four learning communities (classes) per grade comprising a maximum of 20 students in the pre-preparatory classes and 26 students in the preparatory classes, and with set plans in place to establish our secondary faculty in a few years' time. At Rallim Modern Learning Environment, we aim to adopt a transformational high tech educational approach that we believe will serve to disrupt the current educational model that exists in South Africa by providing the following: - An education that is a drive for deeper, more personalised instruction which is open to accelerated learning based on the students' abilities and strengths with individualised timetables designed according to the students' cognitive development; - An education that augments traditional classifications of instruction through blended approaches with a very focused technological bias namely compulsory coding as well as virtual and augmented learning environments; - An interest-driven curriculum which is interdisciplinary in composition and which allows students to learn through embodied learning, game play, discovery and research as well as designing and making; - An education that assigns equivalent weight to the acquisition of left and right brain aptitudes and competencies; - An education that is deeply experiential at its core and which works largely through inquiry and collaboration; - An education that redefines the borders of the classroom and school through its approach, its new anatomy of language and its physical structure.