Our holistic approach to education is not just about balancing work and play.
An Entrepreneurial School
A message from our CEO
Against the backdrop of rising unemployment among school leavers, Radley, an academic private school, believes that meaningful and relevant education is about far more than curriculum content and passing grades.
As parents, we all want the best for our children. We want to know that, each day, we are sending them to a place that most closely resembles our own homes – where it is safe for our children to be themselves. We want to know that they are being rooted in principle and receiving knowledge that will equip them to one day influence and impact this world we all share.
Radley believes in harnessing the individual strengths of each of our young entrepreneurs, using these strengths as a foundation to develop self-sufficiency and independence.
We seamlessly blend the principles of entrepreneurship into our core academic curriculum to impart the essential skill-set, heart-set and mindset displayed in the world’s most successful self-made game-changers.
At Radley Private School, we understand the magnitude of our role in moulding the bravest, most imaginative minds of tomorrow. We strive to ignite in our entrepreneurs a deep desire to make the world a better place for all who live in it.
Allon Raiz
Allon Raiz
CEO of Raizcorp
The Radley story
Our holistic approach to education is not just about balancing work and play. It is also about creating a sense of community through collaboration and communication with parents and the surrounding community. Our first priority is the welfare and progress of every learner, and we strongly encourage parents to become involved in school activities and to support their children both academically and emotionally. But how did get to this point?
Raizcorp and Radley
A number of years ago, Allon Raiz (founder and CEO of top business incubator Raizcorp) recognised a serious deficiency in South African education, namely, an almost complete lack of exposure to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking within the school curriculum.
With unemployment at an all-time high, Allon believes that South African children should learn about basic business concepts as early as possible so that they need not rely on traditional employment in the future.
After conducting his own research in the importance of early exposure to entrepreneurship, Allon engaged the services of academics in the field of education (including a double-PhD graduate from Oxford University) to assist him in integrating entrepreneurial principles into the curriculum (now IEB). Together, they built out a practical framework for this new approach to education. The next step was to acquire the right school at which to introduce the new model and, at the end of 2015, Raizcorp purchased Radley Private School, becoming one of the first entrepreneurial schools in Gauteng.
Unique to Radley are Monday afternoons during which our faculty members participate in compulsory teacher training and development. This is to ensure that all our educator guides remain at the cutting edge of the teaching profession and are able to deliver on our promises to both our parents and entrepreneurs.
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