Matric learners have been showing up in large numbers at the two September trial examination preparation centres, both at Nombulelo and Nathaniel Nyaluza Secondary School.
Matric learners have been showing up in large numbers at the two September trial examination preparation centres, both at Nombulelo and Nathaniel Nyaluza Secondary School.
According to Matole Maselwa who is the District’s physical science subject specialist, last week’s science extra classes were not only well attended but were productive and solved a lot of the learners’ problems.
“I am satisfied with the learners’ attendance, in fact it was more than satisfactory, they are showing dedication,” he added.
Noluvuyo Shwempe, a 17- year-old Grade 12 learner from Nombulelo said, “The extra science classes made my life easier, now my friends and I can easily revise past papers and I’m more confident.
I hope we are going to have more of these in the future.” Nombulelo High school’s accounting teacher, Zoleka Boma said, “My accounting extra classes get very full, I get a lot of learners from different schools.
The Education Department provides food and transport for those who need it. All classes are monitored by the department daily and they make sure that we have teaching material,” she added.
Zandile Klass from Ntsika Secondary said, “What I really enjoy about these classes is that I am not embarrassed to ask questions which I didn’t understand at my own school because we all come from different schools.
Here every learner raises their problems and we all work together to find a common solution. I find this to be much easier,” she elaborated.
Last week at the Nyaluza centre, not many learners showed up for the accounting afternoon classes. According to Ndileka Mdaka, an accounting teacher at TEM Mrwetyana who also teaches afternoon classes at Nyaluza, she only had 12 learners on Wednesday afternoon.
“According to learners who were present, other learners who are supposed to be here are gone to watch their school’s rugby match, others went to a debating session at Rhodes University.”
Madaka also stated that other learners might have gone home early because of the water problem otherwise they normally do attend classes.
The only problem at the Nyaluza centre is that some learners from Mary Waters complained about the language difference.
According to Madaka they did not pitch for lessons because they are used to being taught in their first language, which is Afrikaans.
Mary Water’s Eric Ntlanjeni said that the extra accounting classes at Nyaluza are very helpful to him because last year they did not have an accounting teacher for two months “These classes are filling up that gap,” he said.
