Supporting schooling for excellence
The events which occur during early childhood has a lasting impact and will affect a child’s growth and development throughout his or her life. We have identified various ways in which to ensure that the children in Bitou get the best out of their early childhood experience.
Too many of our learners from deeply deprived backgrounds experience difficulty in coping with the educational curriculum in the Foundation Phase (Grades 1-3), on average learners in the local schools obtain poor Literacy and Mathematic scores. The objective of this programme is to prepare the children adequately for formal schooling.
Mathematics Specialists provide on-the-job training and facilitation meetings and workshops to teachers within a specific phase: Foundation Phase Grades R – 3; Intermediate Phase Grades 4-6; Senior Phase Grades 7-9, in 9 schools in the Bitou area.
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant becomes a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that the child of farm workers can become the president of a nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. - Nelson Mandela -