Schools in South Africa

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Most photos are from my school in Kameelpoort (Molapoamogale) which is a small village. Sele School has 190 students in Gr 7-12. George's and Eva's schools are Gr 7-9 and much bigger. Eva's is in a densely populated region around our shopping village. The difference in size, location, and the personality of the principal makes our school situations different in some ways. But then they all face the same difficulties. For now, just take a look at photos and captions.

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Photos

Eva's School
Unused room, no furniture

My School, Sele Secondary
2012 staff. Mama B, maintenance person; Shilpa, PCV; Mem Banda and Mr. Ramalefo, teachers; Mapule, administrative assistant.

Drums and Dance at a function
Honoring the 2012 Gr 12 class who matric (graduate)

Preacher at a local church
at the function honoring Gr 12

Student Body president
For the most part, South African learners are comfortable speaking in front of others. Very expressive, some are very funny.

Letty in regalia
One of my Gr 12's all dressed up in a teacher's gown.

Mr. Kgotsa
Hardworking teacher, assistant principal. We were born in the same month and same year...and get lots of ribbing about that.

Bongani, administrative assistant.
In mid-2013 interviews were held for this position. Mapule, a young woman from Limpopo province, had been volunteering in this job for at least two years. She rented a room Mon-Fri in our village and she has a daughter at home in Limpopo. Five months later, Bongani was hired, and he showed up for work....Mapule had not even been told this. It was a very uncomfortable situation. We will have a farewell to thank her sometime next year, but for now we are sad she had to leave this way. Bongani is a hard worker with lots of gifts for this job, and I'm glad to have him.

Mr. Sebothoma, garderner
He has really worked hard to transform our garden!

Mem Skosana
She teaches very many classes, Life Orientation, Technology, Arts and Culture, English. (English is taught every day, but others are 3 or 4 times out of 6 days, so that means lots of different preps for these classes) She has a great rapport with learners.

Can't remember the cook's name.
People in the village take this job for six months at a time it seems.

Me with Principal Masinga and two members of the SGB
SGB is the school board.

Two girls from Ndayi Primary next door
They visit after school some times and draw on the chalkboard.

Comments

[Kagis8]

I missed Sele already