Education
BLHS Learner Killed
Another untimely death of a pupil at our school… September 26 2010 at 05:57pm A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town on Sunday morning, Western Cape police said. Bradley Benteng from Vygieway was leaving his girlfriend’s house in Reenbergway around 1.30am when three young men accosted him, Captain Marie Louw … Continue reading
Teacher Laptop Initiative
The teacher laptop initiative, has finally been “officially” launched again. Whether this will be beneficial to teachers, one can but wonder. So what do you get? A R130 that will be taxed. Meaning you get about a R100 to by a laptop package, with Windows, Office and some form of Internet connection. Unfortunately the R100 … Continue reading
Laptops for Teachers
We have a real fiasco on our hands, it was suppose to begin in July 2009, postponed to February 2010, as yet nothing concrete has happened. Fly by night companies are approaching schools in the poorer areas of Cape Town, telling them that the project is available and ‘forcing’ teachers to sign up. I see … Continue reading
Student Radio
Been toying with the idea of getting some sort of broadcasting going at school, where the students can speak to the broader school body during intervals, play music and have dedications etc. Basically we need a computer, some broadcasting software, an amplifier and some massive speakers. I have been searching for some software, tons of … Continue reading
Subject Advisors
Subject – Content of a Learning Area Adviser – 1. Recommend (a course of action). 2 inform about a fact or situation. 3 offer advice to. My take on the function of a Subject Advisor. This year I am teaching Social Science, a first since teaching History in 1990. Needed some guidance from the Subject … Continue reading
Back to School – Learners
Schools will welcome the Learners for the 2010 academic year.We expect about 1200 learners, we lost five teachers because of some scewed departmental process. Strangely the failures at our school won’t pitch up until next week, causing more administrative headaches to the SMT. Its like Guy Fawkes, when our kids just don’t turn up for … Continue reading
Back to School – Educators
Today was the start of the new academic year. Our school ‘lost’ 5 teachers and we have a staff complement of 37 WCED paid educators and 1 Governing Body post. Our classes are huge, Grades 8 – 10 averaging 46 learners. We can’t employ more teachers because of our situation, a township, low school fees … Continue reading
Advice for the new Academic Year (2010)
Interesting, Inspiring Sermon for all Learners, Parents and Educators… CMRM – Dr Rashied Omar
Matric Results 2009
The results of Matric 2009 is finally out. Our school (BLHS) really improved dramatically, up from 64% (2008) to 79% (2009). Hope this keeps the Hyena’s at bay. CAT results also improved from 78% in 2008 to 92% in 2009. At the beginning of the year (2009) I forecasted a pass rate of 94% for CAT … Continue reading