Learners step up as virtual learning continues
Learners are learning to take responsibility for their schoolwork by pacing themselves and completing their worksheets with little supervision.
With the implementation of adjusted level four lockdown, schools needed to relook how children would be educated until restrictions were eased.
However, unlike that first lockdown, educators had the advantage of experience.
uBambiswano, a Saturday school programme and social development initiative of St Andrew’s School for Girls, learned valuable lessons in 2020 and the early part of 2021.
When the latest lockdown and school closures were announced, the uBambiswano’s team was ready.
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The school programme assists learners from disadvantaged communities in Daveyton and Etwatwa.
It reaches 105 learners from Grade Six to Nine, improving literacy, numeracy and providing learners opportunities to engage in sporting and cultural activities.
As it reimplemented its distance learning programme, the uBambiswano team printed packs of learning material that were distributed among the learners and revived its WhatsApp support groups.
Although learners had to adjust to the distance learning programme, uBambiswano’s staff noticed a silver lining.
Learners are learning to take responsibility for their schoolwork by pacing themselves and completing their worksheets with little supervision.
While uBambiswano’s staff cannot talk to their learners in person, they support them virtually.
Staff are teaching them essential and appropriate communication skills they can use in their daily lives and, one day, in the workplace.
Over the past year and a half, uBambiswano has seen the need to be creative and flexible in its approach to learning and teaching.
With the teachers’ guidance and the support of parents, uBambiswano strives to ensure continuous education making sure no learner is left behind.
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