Tshepisa Primary School in Sedibeng Section in Tembisa celebrated their provincial award on November 8.
Through Boitumelo Motaung’s and Steven Mathunyane’s, Grade Three learners, performance in mathematics, the school brought home a provincial award.
Motaung claimed the second spot and Mathunyane claimed best learner among his peers.
Nsibande Chonkie, educator, said the competition began from school level whereby all Grade Three learners wrote a district test to determine the top learners to represent the school in the competition.
“From their internal performance they qualified to compete against Ekurhuleni North District schools. They performed well to proceed to the provincial level, where they got position two and best learner respectively,” said Chonkie.
Chonkie added that throughout the competition they gave the learners previous question papers to practise with prior to the competing stages.
“We had to sometimes utilise our lunch time to do some practical activities on the question papers. What I like about them is that they are smart, they are able to answer questions where possible and challenge you as a teacher,” said Chonkie.
“We would also like to thank their parents for showing us support throughout, they monitored their children’s progress and we managed to get this far through their support.
“As a school, we can’t begin to express the overwhelming feeling of joy in recognising our hard work paying off like this, this motivates other learners to also partake in activities when we say we have competitions,” concluded Chonkie.
Other teachers who helped was Margaret Makgosa and Nchabeleng Harrison. Among other learners from the school who partook in other school competitions was Mapule Mabilo, who reached district levels in an English spelling bee.
The school principal, China Martin Kekana, also encouraged parents to support their children and have a strong partnership with the school educators to achieve better results at all times.
“The achievement is made possible by team work from all the educators and parents involved. As a school we would like to see this partnership going forward even stronger,” said Kekana.
“We also have Click Foundation programme in the school which runs on a daily basis assisting learners during a two-hour session daily at the computer lab on maths and science.
“These two learners in particular have made us very proud in a sense that the outcry of learners not performing well in numeracy is proven otherwise,” said Kekana.
