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Merrydale Primary
The Khanya suite at Merrydale has started a new era of teaching at the school. Educators have been empowered in their efforts to provide effective education and they aim to improve the overall standard of education with the laboratory. They face the future confident that their learners will not be left behind the rest of the world now that they have access to technology.All learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7 have access to the technology and Edunova, under the watchful eye of Khanya, has assisted the educators and the learners in their bid to become comfortable with the technology. The computer laboratory is used extensively and the learners enjoy doing Mathematics and Languages in the laboratory. Initially, numeracy and literacy skills will be targeted in particular and each class is therefore taken to the laboratory at least twice a week. As part of this drive to enhance literacy and numeracy levels, Merrydale Primary is also part of the Zenex programme. A positive atmosphere abounds in the laboratory that constantly bustles with activity as learners utilize it for lessons or staff work on their skills and lesson development. The Khanya laboratory has opened doors to learning and resources previously unheard of at the school and Merrydale Primary are determined to maintain and to develop their contact with the world through twinning projects with schools in the United Kingdom. Determined to share the benefits of their new acquisition, Merrydale Primary will soon initiate a community project whereby evening classes will be offered in the laboratory in the hope that computer skills developed in this way will assist post matriculants in finding employment. The Khanya laboratory will thus be available to the community to expose them to computers and to allow them access to information via the Internet and e-mail at a minimal fee. Not only will this help to ensure the sustainability of the laboratory, but it will ensure that the community takes ownership of the laboratory, takes pride in it and in its potential and will therefore safeguard it for its youth.
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