Premier’s Integrated service delivery Turn Around Strategy delivers for Chris Hani

 

A R1, 27 million school infrastructure renovation project is to commence at Chris Hani Secondary in Jouberton in the next few week, Office of the Premier of the North West announced at a meeting of stakeholders this week.

 

The renovations are part of an Integrated Service Delivery Turn Around Strategy that was initiated by Premier Thandi Modise aimed improving academic performance, good governance and extramural activities at the school. The intervention followed after the Premier’s visit to the school during the monitoring of opening of schools in January this year.

 

The intervention which was embraced by Matlosana Development Forum and several government departments that came on board has created a condusive environment for learning and teaching to improve academic performance,good governance and extramural activities at the school.

 

One hundred and seventy learners from needy households have already received school uniform and group counselling sessions through the Department of Social Development, Women, Children and People with Disabilities for learners who were struggling with drugs, alcohol abuse and other pycho-social factors.

 

Twenty-five parolees were deployed by the Department of Correctional Services for a clean-up campaign that improved cleaniless and are developing a food garden with the support of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. PANNAR will provide seedlings and technical skills to groups involved in the food garden.

 

The Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism assisted in ensuring safety against dangerous reptiles during the scraping of the school yard.  The Department of Public Works,Roads and Transport provided graders and tractors for the Letsema Cleanup campaigns that were supported by the ward councillor, parents at the school and the broader community.

 

 

 

The Department of Education has maximized its support to the school by deploying experts to strengthen the Senior Management Team (SMT), provided text books and furniture and has fast track implementation of the National School Nutrition Programme at the school.

 

Peer education programmes and career guidance to learners is being conducted by Moemedi creations.

 

Telkom will assist with IT infrastructure and avail bursaries to identified learners while GCIS will provide strategic support on profiling and marketing service delivery initiatives of government. 

 

 Other partners who have contributed are Community Development Workers and some of the local CBOs around Jouberton.

 

North West University-Potchefstroom Campus has joined the partnership and committed to implementing the Ikateleng Project aimed at empowering learners with extra Physics, Maths and Accounting classes at the University every Saturday to improve results at the school.North West Premier has welcomed the recent announcement that has been made by the North West University, Potchefstroom Campus which has pledged to implement multiple programmes that will enhance learners performance and boost the morale of the SMT and Student Governing Body.

 

During her address delivered at the stakeholder meeting on Wednesday involving departments responsible for the Turnaround strategy, Beatrix Bouwman, Director for Community Engagement from North West University said that she is confident that 

 

 ownership of the intervention is very visible from the services that have been rendered by departments and other partners.

 

 She added that the University will be looking at implementing programmes such as Musikhane which is focusing on cultural aspect of the community and training learners to be active. Other possible programmes are X20 which aims to improve numeracy skills of learners.

 

  ENACTUS is an International body that support learners in accounting and they are in contact with the Team President to work out a stategy of rolling out at the school.

 

The University also offers the Siyafunda and Ikateleng that enables learners to have access to internet, reading labs and to excel in mathematics.

 

Representatives from university further announced that the partnership with Chris Hani Secondary School will bring integration between the school and communities and they will continuously research on the impact and psychological aspects of the learners.

 

 The Chairperson of the SGB Mamane Sxaka expressed her appreciation to the intervention that has been implemented by government at the school” We are now able to walk freely since the grass that has been surrounding the school for years has been removed. We are now going to have a food garden and our children were given uniforms and will be able to work with computers to achieve good results at the end of the year” she said.

 

The school principal, Mandla Bothile also committed to ensure that school management team works harder to ensure that the benefit of the interventions implemented by government and its partners is translated into improved and increased pass rate at the end of the year.

 

Renovations and roll out of interventions at Zinele Geqe Primary school in Jouberton which Premier Modise and MEC for Education, Louisa Mabe visited during the reopening are to be rolled out in the next few weeks.