Head of Life Orientation: Mrs A. Kitching

akitching@edgemeadhigh.org.za

What is Life Orientation?

• always relevant
• individual and it is social
• hypothetical and it is fact-based
• exploratory and instructive

The Central Ambition:

Its central ambition is to empower the youth with a sense of history, self-knowledge, wisdom, morality and tolerance.

 What Life Orientation Strives for:

Life Orientation strives to assist all young South Africans in their paths towards finding themselves, while understanding their own positions in society, relevant to those of their brothers and sisters of Africa, and of the world. Life Orientation offers a place for questions to be asked – the kinds of questions that would not be raised in the Science, Mathematics or Language class. Learners are guided toward achieving their own understandings of the world in all its diversity.

Life Orientation allows students to be wise and knowledgeable in a broad array of relevant fields, while being empowered by a heart of genuine care, and an ambition to be all that they can be, while simultaneously striving towards a country and a world that is similarly whole and healed.