Independent school group Curro Holdings, in partnership with Acer for Education, has launched its very own secure eSports gaming platform for its students.
The new platform reassures parents with an extra layer of cyber security to ensure learners’ safety while playing online video game tournaments as part of the school group’s eSports programme.
Curro’s eSports programme has already registered more than 1,900 learners from across 38 of the group’s primary and 28 of the group’s high schools since its launch in 2020.
Previously, these learners’ played across independent tournaments on various platforms with little monitoring and data collection.
Now, with the introduction of Curro’s eSports Platform, student gamers and coaches will have one central space to coordinate tournaments, view player information and school rankings, and manage players.
The platform will also allow secure communication between players as well as between players and coaches and will be introducing a shout casting mentorship programme for well-informed and professional in-game commentary.
Curro’s eSports programme will host various tournaments on its new platform, which will include various games such as Apex Legends, CS: GO, and Rocket League.
The independent school group plans to host its inter-Curro Cup tournament later this year, to determine the best school in the group.
The tournaments are live-streamed via Twitch which means everyone gets to watch.
“eSports is not just about playing video games as an extracurricular activity, but rather it provides various opportunities for our learners as an integrated part of our curriculum,” said Curro digital transformation manager Angela Schaerer.
“This new platform allows us to take our eSports offering to a whole new level of learning and upskill our learners and staff even more,” she added.
Curro has been forging ahead with its eSports programme after witnessing the popularity of virtual sports during the Covid-19 lockdown when traditional sports were prohibited.
Curro believes that eSports is a necessary addition to its curriculum, as it teaches learners important real-world skills.
These include improving the players’ ability to process and prioritise information, enhance their critical and creative thinking skills while quickening their decision-making and reaction time.
The independent school group says that these competencies are valuable in various careers, especially in areas of math, science, and engineering.
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