{"id":25111,"date":"2020-01-10T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/?p=25111"},"modified":"2021-02-15T16:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:57:42","slug":"welcome-green-school-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/featured\/welcome-green-school-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEN SCHOOL OPENS IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15th February 2021<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is with great excitement and pride that we introduce the newest addition to the Green School network, <\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/greenschoolsa.co.za\/?t=gs.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School South Africa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which will welcome more than 100 students for its first term beginning on 15th February in the verdant Paarl-Franschhoek Valley just outside of Cape Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25113 aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-4.png 900w, https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-4-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 900px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School South Africa\u2019s location in the Paarl-Franschhoek Valley<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From the beginning, Green School\u2019s founders, <\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John and Cynthia Hardy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, envisioned bringing a better model of education, one that fostered values, creativity and real-life skills in equal measure, to all corners of the globe. Green School South Africa is the latest example of that dream being realized. Last February, the first Green School outpost after Bali, <\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/greenschool.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School New Zealand<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, opened in utopic Taranaki, next to the beautiful Oakura River, and situated between Mt Taranaki and the Tasman Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25123 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-6.png 600w, https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-6-480x720.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School founders, John &amp; Cynthia Hardy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School South Africa\u2019s founders, Alba and Herman Brandt, were so impressed by the extraordinary educational experience their three daughters enjoyed when they attended <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/bali\/?t=gs.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School Bali.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We had an extraordinary experience at Green School Bali that fundamentally changed how we see education. We saw a major change in our kids, the joy with which they went to school in the morning, and the excitement on a Sunday evening. They loved the extent of arts, music, and drama as part of their normal week, the opportunity to perform in front of the school on a weekly basis and they felt that they were mostly just playing. In talking with the educators we realised how much thought, research, and passion went into curriculum design with flexibility to adjust to each child\u2019s unique level in each subject.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When they returned to South Africa, they were inspired to establish their own Green School and sharing its forward-thinking approach to education with families in their community and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mission from the very beginning was to take a stand for future generations,\u201d says Cynthia Hardy, referencing her and John\u2019s mission for all Green Schools to educate changemakers for a more sustainable world. \u201cAlba and Herman, congratulations and heartfelt acknowledgement for everything you\u2019ve been through these past years. You\u2019ve done it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new Green School campus sits on 8 hectares of land in the sun-dappled valley where more than 25,000 native flora have been planted in the gardens and orchards to act as an outdoor extension of the classrooms. Like its sister schools in Bali and New Zealand, Green School South Africa will provide its community a place where creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship flourish. Where sustainability isn&#8217;t just a buzzword, but a principle people live by.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25142 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Web-GSSA-Open-3-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" \/> \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25144 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Web-GSSA-Open-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25143 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Web-GSSA-Open-2-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School South Africa campus<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGreen School is magic because it is full of beauty, full of innovation and full of hope for the future, one that we especially need today\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/john_hardy_my_green_school_dream?language=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Hardy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cSouth Africa is a beautiful country, and Paarl is a place that is really looking at that future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In keeping with the Green School network\u2019s focus on sustainability, Green School South Africa will offer programmes at every level, from kindergarten to grade 12, to help students become more aware of the world\u2019s environmental challenges and how they can make a difference. The biophilic design of the campus, made using locally-sourced sand, clay, and lime and crafted by South African artisans, will model sustainability to the children enrolled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25115 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-2.png 900w, https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-2-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 900px, 100vw\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green School South Africa classrooms and campus have been built using sustainable, locally-sourced materials<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe world is changing, and the world into which our children are going to step will be vastly\u00a0 different,\u201d says Andy Wood, Green School South Africa\u2019s Head of School. \u201cIn order to succeed in that world, our students must learn to be creative, entrepreneurial and able to collaborate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to his passion for the outdoors, mountaineering, hiking and rock-climbing, Wood brings more than three decades of teaching experience in South Africa, the Middle East and the Americas as well as a passion for the Green School mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Web-GSSA-Welcome-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andy Wood, Head of School at Green School South Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re all very proud of the education we\u2019ve had, and it\u2019s got us this far,\u201d Wood says. \u201cBut it\u2019s not going to get us to where we need to be in the future. Green School is designed to set students up for success in the future and now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great excitement and pride that we introduce the newest addition to the Green School network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GREEN SCHOOL OPENS IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY - Green School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenschool.org\/featured\/welcome-green-school-south-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GREEN SCHOOL OPENS IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY - 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