MULTIMEDIA: Watch Dududu Primary School Grade R’s first day of school
The first day of school produced a mixture of emotions for the Grade R's at Dududu Primary School in Nkowankowa outside Tzaneen on Wednesday morning, January 17.
You could see sadness in the parents’ eyes when they had to leave their kids behind and some just remained behind to see if their kids were coping.
Dududu Primary School Grade R 2018 class with their teachers.
Thandi Shiburi, one of the teachers at the school tried her best to make the learners comfortable by making them sing a song or two.
But some of them were not having it, one learner even lied to Shiburi that he wanted to go to the toilet, only to find that he wanted to sit with his mother outside.
Excited parents accompanied their kids to school
Overall the parents, teachers and most learners were all calm and ready for the year ahead.
Tintswalo Shipalana, a journalist for the Letaba Herald, has been in the media industry for over a decade. She started her journey in radio, but ended up in print which is her first love. She joined the Herald newspaper as a cadet in 2016, where she graduated with a journalism qualification from the Caxton Training Academy. She also has a qualification in Feature Writing from the University of Cape Town and a Media Management qualification from Wits University. She is completing her BA Communication Science degree with UNISA. She sleeps well at night knowing she is a voice to the voiceless and her work contributes to promoting local talent, businesses and service delivery. Her love for her community keeps her working hard every day.
