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Updated: Mar 13 2010 9:02AM
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Latest Stories
Jubilee Park Primary to get a face-lift
A FACE-LIFT is on the cards for a dilapidated primary school in Uitenhage, teachers and parents heard yesterday.

Pupils locked out of new school building
PUPILS at two Transkei schools have been getting their lessons in shacks and on the side of the road after problems with contractors building new facilities.

Greenfields school question ‘has turned political’
PLANS for establishing a mobile school for the forgotten Zanemvula community of Greenfields has turned political, residents said yesterday.

Stationery, shoes for pupils in U’hage
NEEDY children in Uitenhage will now be able to walk to school with pride thanks to a donation of school shoes and stationery from good samaritans.

Sacked teachers rehired following meeting (video)
THE principal of Nelson Mandela Bay’s Booysen Park Primary School sighed with relief after receiving news that two teachers laid off last month would be reinstated today.

Celebrating World Wetlands Day
THEODOR Herzl pupils (foreground, from left) Tailah Botha, 11, and Miyu Iizuka, 10, and their Grade 5 classmates participated in a clean-up operation in the Baakens Valley yesterday in conjunction with the Wildlife and Environment Society, to celebrate World Wetlands Day.

Paying for quality education
GETTING the best education comes at a high price, but every cent is worth it for parents who want individualised attention for their children.

Saving every drop
COLLEGIATE Pre-Primary School pupils (from left) Madison du Preez, 4, Kayla Nienaber, 4, and Mthi Mziba, 5, participated in a project last week where they saved some of the water after their baths at home and brought it along to water their garden at the school garden. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI

Pupils, parents help relocate fish
A group of Woodridge Preparatory students and parents were involved in relocating the remaining 500-or-so fish living in the school’s nature reserve dam to a neighbouring parent’s dam.

Many teachers make light work
UNEMPLOYED parents are easing the workload of teachers at a primary school in Booysen Park in Port Elizabeth.

Hundreds of kids to be taught in mobile classrooms
FOLLOWING a report in The Herald, hundreds of children who roam the streets of a forgotten Port Elizabeth township will soon receive lessons in mobile classrooms.

Special achievement
JASON Field, 18, who matriculated at Cape Recife High School last year, is the top achiever out of hundreds of pupils at over 40 special schools in the Eastern Cape.

No schools for Chatty’s forgotten children
MORE than 1000 children of schoolgoing age are idle at home or roaming the streets of a forgotten Port Elizabeth township as a government promise to build local schools for the nearly 4500 families has failed to materialise.

Top matrics share their study tips
THEY’VE achieved what they set out to do – and despite the Eastern Cape still reflecting a dismal matric pass rate of only 51%, highly successful 2009 pupils from across the province have shown what can be achieved and also provided hope to those who must still tackle their final school year.

Matric boffins share recipe for success
THE recipe for outstanding matric results is keen time management, studying consistently throughout the year, and spending less time on social networks Facebook and Mxit.

Qumbu’s top matric rose above odds
SHE shares a cramped room with three sisters and sleeps in a bed with two of them, but she did not let poverty stop her from being named the top matric pupil in her area.

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