Local schools do well in matric results
The school also won an award for being the second best independent school in the Limpopo Province. St Thomas retains the award as they won it in the previous year. The school achieved 90 bachelors, 22 diplomas and 3 higher certificates. St Thomas’s top learner is Matete Lekwadu who accumulated seven distinctions. She is the overall best learner in Tubatse.
BURGERSFORT – Despite a drop in the national matric results, local independent schools, St Thomas and Calvin College, performed wonders this year.
Like their predecessors, St Thomas College’s matric class did it again, they topped the rest of the schools in the Tubatse Circuit by achieving a remarkable 100 per cent pass rate from the 2015 matric results.
The school was followed by another top achieving school, Calvin College, who obtained a magnificent 98 percent pass rate.
“We are quite happy to have achieved a 100 per cent pass rate and we are once again number one in the circuit,” said the excited principal, Mr TGK John.
The school also won an award for being the second best independent school in the Limpopo Province. St Thomas retains the award as they won it in the previous year. The school achieved 90 bachelors, 22 diplomas and 3 higher certificates. St Thomas’s top learner is Matete Lekwadu who accumulated seven distinctions. She is the overall best learner in Tubatse.
Calvin College’s best learners were Derick Mohlala and Conny Riba who both managed six distinctions.Calvin obtained 51 bachelors and 12 diplomas. They don’t have a learner who passed with a higher certificate.
Meanwhile Limpopo education MEC, Mr Ishmael Kgetjepe highlighted that the province needed to improve as it dropped from 72,9 percent to 65,9 per cent. Kgetjepe was speaking at the Protea Ranch Hotel in Polokwane during the announcing of the provincial results on January 6.
“We are not happy with the achievement as we targeted a pass rate of 80 per cent. We will work hard to ensure we improve. The drop is a sign that we must pull up our socks,” he said.
Kgetjepe wished luck to those who passed and encouraged the ones who had failed to work harder.”To those who did not do well, we want to encourage them to know that this is not the end of the world for them.We will support those who will enrol for their supplementary programs so that they can ultimately achieve their desired results,”the MEC said. For this article and more grab a copy of the Steelburger/Lydenburg News tomorrow.
