Principal, parents build classrooms
2006-11-09
“THE accommodation that we rent, was declared unsuitable for the use of a classroom by the Department of Social Services,” says George Kroneberg, principal at Windmeul Primary.
Drive on the Vryguns Road past Windmeul Wine Cellar and you will pass Windmeul Primary School on the left. Over weekends you’ll probably see principal Kroneberg with some helpers busy erecting two extra classrooms behind the school.
“This is to provide pre-school education to all our children living on the farms who will never receive any or very little school stimulation at home,” says Kroneberg.
Windmeul Pre-Primary was established in October 1996 and opened its doors in January 1997 with 40 learners, one educator and one assistant. It provides pre-school education to children of farm workers living on farms of the Agter-Paarl and Paardeberg.
Today after ten years, the pre-primary section still goes from strength to strength and maintains an average of 60 pupils with two teachers.
This year the school had 25 children in the pre-school group and 35 in the grade R-group. One group is currently accommodated in rented premises at the local church, but this has now been declared unsuitable.
The school received the consent of the Primary School Governing Body to erect two wooden structures on the school premises at own cost.
The projected cost to prepare it to acceptable classroom standard is R75 000 and is partly underwritten by the Department of Social Services and other private institutions.
“To save money I decided to do the work myself, with the help of willing parents,” says Kroneberg. “But we still need R20 000 to complete this project.”
He has extended the request for contributions to the farming community and private institutions to complete the project before the end of the year.
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