It takes just 10 minutes to bake a loaf of bread using tin foil and the energy from the sun. This was demonstrated by Debora Hammann and Claudette van Wyk, Grade 7 learners from Barberton Primary School. Their project, which showed the use of energy-efficient solar and biogas technologies through the use of scientific principles, […]
The Dinaledi project, which aims to boost pupils’ performance in maths and science, is finally showing signs of progress, almost 10 months after its launch in June last year. Dinaledi (seSotho for “stars”) is being piloted in 102 selected schools in the country. “The dedicated schools were chosen from under-resourced, well-performing schools and those with […]
Elsie Seletisha, a teacher at Batsogile Primary, loves the food garden at her school. A lot of time is taken up tending to the soil and growing crops. “We decided to allow people to use our school yard for a food-gardening project to try to get people who live around the school to keep an […]
The Education Rights Project (ERP), which will formally be launched in June, is being jointly driven by the Education Policy Unit (EPU) and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Cals), both based at University of the Witwatersrand. In an article in the February 2002 edition of the Teacher, it was reported that legal action against […]
Due to be released this month, the Department of Education (DoE) has developed a policy for dealing with drugs in schools. These guidelines are meant to help schools effectively prevent, manage and treat learners who abuse or are dependent on drugs. The policy is also meant to assist those who do not use drugs themselves, […]
Close to 200 people – from students, parents and teachers to community leaders – got together on a Saturday in May to transform the dump of a school into a vibrant centre of learning. They repaired windows, the roof and toilets, painted the woodwork and swept up piles of trash at Molatsane High School. The […]
Learners throughout the Western Cape have been getting high. They have been experiencing the natural heady rush of one of the most ancient art forms: kite-flying. The annual Schools’ Kite Competition 2002 is a joint project of the Cape Mental Health Society, the Western Cape Department of Education Safe Schools project and corporate partner Frutus. […]
But Herker Vos, principal of Mamoratwa Farm School in Ottosdal in the North West province, says the dreams of her learners died before they even began: ‘A lot of children come to school to study for 12 years and then end up as farm workers. So they do not see why they should go to […]
“This is my mission in life. I enjoy teaching members of the community about road safety and encouraging them to take responsibility for their own safety.” These soothing words are from Bruce Peterson. An educator for the past 20 years, Peterson now teaches Grade 7 at Elridge Primary School in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg. Every morning, […]
Unscrupulous food suppliers are systematically stealing from starving children by plundering Mpumalanga’s R34 -million school feeding scheme. A forensic audit completed in January indicates widespread corruption by suppliers, teachers and, in some cases, even parents. Just one company supplying 80 schools in the Kabokweni district near White River, for example, stands accused of charging for […]