At Premiere Academy every student has to do some sort of sports at school, not just football or basketball. A host of other games are played in school ranging from swimming, cycling, volleyball, lawn tennis and table tennis, chess, track events, shot put and javelin, to give students the opportunity to groom their skills in sports.
The school provides standard football field and basketball and volley ball courts for students who love the ball games.
SPORT HOUSES All students in Premiere Academy belong to any of the following houses:
Yellow
Blue
Green
Red
We teach students the value of healthy living exercises, spirit of sportsmanship, self confidence, never give up attitude, good eating habits and positive lifestyle. We have a structured physical education programme where students learn to unwind and relieve themselves of stress and anxiety, allowing them to function more effectively in their classrooms.
Every year the school organises its Inter-house sports competition where all the boys and girls in different houses compete for the grand prize (cup). During the event, students from other schools compete as well.
Music and Art are much more than just a break from academics: Research has shown that art and music education help students succeed in school. They improve language development and IQ, help students visualize elements like solving math problems, and help improve test scores.
When students are involved in the arts, they have a lower dropout rate, higher WAEC grades, and are more likely to be recognized for their academic achievement.
Student learn how to play pianos, guitars, drums, trumpet, violins and flute. With excellent music teachers giving them the basics to professional level. Students build their skills and learn the tenets of the music profession.
Every year between June and July, an annual event termed 'CODING DAY' is held to assess students understanding and capacity to create innovative applications and inventions using the power of codes. Its a global norm in many schools where students are encouraged to strengthen their computer programming skills in order to contribute in a world where its future depends on innovative Apps, Artificial intelligence and Robotics.ThisHour of Codeinspires thousands -- tens of thousands -- of students to fall in love with problem-solving, coding,technology in the classroom, and programming. Like a favorite web-based game, students are presented with a problem (for example, get your bot to sayOn vacation!) and are challenged to usetechnology in the classroomtools available to solve it. There are endless examples, from games to robots to programmingtechnology in the classroom. No teacher can fail to find one exactly right for their students.
A good option that introduces coding at its most basic level is Game programming, where students are thought the logic and concepts of programming using visual elements and building blocks at the early stage. Such games introduced as a global standard learning tool are; KODU Gaming lab, Scratch, Project Spark, , Mine Craft and so on. These games have an overall effect of teaching students mathematical, logical computer skills that prepare them for a higher level of programming as they progress with the skill.
Futher on students move to more technical prgramming termed traditional programming where they focus more on Computer languages like Java, PHP, Python, SQL, Java script and so on. These languages are brought to bare when students learn practically how to build websites using HTML and Java script, before introducing down the road, Javascripts, CSS and databases for building more intelligent functionality to the website.
As students progress with the skill, they are allowed independently to introduce their own ideas, choose their area of concentration, form teams and work on innovative projects that are similar to those found in countries like INDIA, CHINA, USA and EUROPE. These projects could range from web apps, to gaming solutions and robotics, which could have practicable impact to any user, any where in the world as they are showcased.
The overall idea of coding is to provide a platform for students to build their IT skills and go further to transform their creative ideas into real world solutions and applications that can impact humanity.
Very simply, they are barcodes, not too dissimilar to those you see on the packaging of almost every product you buy. The main difference is that QR Codes can store much more data and more complex data in a smaller surface area. The code itself is an image file that can be copied, pasted, embedded, downloaded, and uploaded -- anything you'd normally do to an image file.
Most risks with QR Codes stem from the fact that they aren't readable by humans.
Why use QR Codes
There are valid reasons for using QR Codes in your classroom or as a teacher-author:
High Capacity - they store a lot more data, allowing you to share real content and not just IDs or references.
Require Less Space - you get the same data stored in a much smaller surface area.
Dust And Damage Resistant - you can corrupt them but they don't damage easily. Even if that happens, because of the redundancies built in, there is a chance they are still readable.
Readable From Any Direction - you can scan them from any angle; you don't need to be aligned to the orientation of the code.
Structured Appending - for power users, data can be split over multiple codes which when scanned can be combined to reconstruct the original content.
Because they're so small, they're easy to embed anywhere. For example, for a school concert, you can turn the agenda into a QR Code that parents can open with their phones. No more papers to print, pass out, and toss at the end of the evening.
Premiere Academy provides a standard electrical and mechanical workshop for students to gain practical experience on the activities and processes involved in designing and constructing circuits, soldering components, fabricating metal components using workshop tools.
Students learn how to use machine tools like saws, bench vices, 'G' and 'F' clamps, vernier caliper, drilling machines, welding machines, soldering and so on.
To further entrench the knowledge of using electrical and machine tools, students are divided into teams, under the supervision of their instructors. They carry out workshop projects more on fabrication, welding and soldering, bringing to bare the technical skills acquired.
Art can be a very powerful tool for those who have trouble expressing how they feel through writing, giving students the opportunity to visually and artistically express themselves through drawing. Art helps visual students grasp new vocabulary or important concepts by connecting the spoken or written word with a visual model. Create opportunities for students to connect what they are learning in a visually artistic way. For example, if students are studying about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., have them illustrate important facts in his life like the march on Washington, or the Montgomery bus boycott. If they are learning molecules in science, have them illustrate and label each part of a molecule. Studies show that by creating a visual artifact, students retain what they are learning much quicker.
Incorporating the arts into education ensures that all students’ needs are being met, regardless of how they learn. It allows students a creative outlet, increases their self-confidence, and offers them an alternative way to learn new concepts.
