Municipal woes such as electricity outages and water disruptions have negatively affected the initiatives Laerskool Breyten implemented amid Covid-19.

The Highvelder in last week’s edition reported about the extraordinary measures the school took to ensure the safety of their learners as well as teachers. A walk-through sanitation station was installed at the entrance of the school which makes use of diluted alcohol and disinfectant.

An automated disinfectant/sanitising sprinkler system which features about 92 sprinklers and stretches the length of the school’s corridor, was also installed.

However, with the current electricity outages in Breyten, the efforts made by the personnel, if nothing is done to remedy the situation, were fruitless.

“Everything needs electricity,” Mr Louis Bates, Laerskool Breyten’s principal, said.

“The school’s clock uses electricity as well as our interactive school boards all of which we are incapable of using.”

Mr Bates said they have begrudgingly returned to the archaic way of teaching.

Breyten is said to, at times, experience power outages that last for up to 15 hours.

Read more about this in the next Highvelder Newspaper.