Honours evening at Kwasa
The honours evening at Strubenvale Primary was held recently where Vinet Maepa was awarded academic colours.
Reverend Sharron Dinnie went to fetch Vinet and her mother from the settlement in the midst of a typical Highveld thunderstorm. Nothing could stop them from attending the prizegiving.
“It was bucketing down and they had to slosh through large puddles and deep mud to get to my car, but nothing could dampen our spirits,” says Sharron.
She adds it was so precious when the prizewinners from Grade 4 were called up, as there were five children receiving prizes as well as Vinet.
Vinet was awarded a certificate of achievement and a medal in all her subjects, which means above 80% in the final exam and above 80% in all subjects every term.
She was also awarded academic colours and she is the Dux scholar in Grade 4.
Not only did she receive all the above but also won a trophy for English and was senior Victor Ludorum.
“I would have said Victrix, as she is an amazing little athlete,” says Sharron.
Sharron concludes she was just so proud of her and so was her mother, achieving all that, despite her circumstances.
But then it is because so many people make it possible for her to be on the Kwasa sponsorship programme.
Sharon wants to thank everyone for all their support towards the Kwasa’s scholarship programme.
“Not all the children achieved as much as Vinet but I do not think any one of the 82 sponsored children at either Strubenvale Primary School, Werda Primary School, Springs Technical College or Springs Girls’ High School will have to repeat the year,” adds Sharron.
Towards the end of the evening, the 2014 prefects were announced and Vinet was telling Sharron in the car on the way back home about how she is going to work hard at being a prefect when she is in Grade 7. In fact she is aiming at becoming head girl. Sharron concludes they will have to help her strive towards that while helping her to be prepared to accept that it might just not happen.
“The storm had cleared by the time we drove home – and a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow could not have made the three of us any happier!” she says.
In 2014 Kwasa will still have the 82 children on the scholarship programme and in addition 22 little learners in Kwasa’s own Grade1 class and the school’s first honours evening.
