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Somerset-West Methodist Primary
The Khanya Project launched its programme at Somerset-West Methodist Primary in June 2002 with the objective of enhancing curriculum delivery using Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Educators and learners at Somerset-West Methodist show remarkable progress in the process that uses ICT to reach academic goals.Although levels differ, 90% of the educators at Somerset-West Methodist are computer literate. Many of them have progressed to such an extent that they are able to teach effectively using the available ICT. Khanya Project Facilitators visit the school on a weekly basis according to a fixed programme to provide continued support to educators and learners in the effective use of ICT for curriculum delivery. The Facilitator provides advice and guidance to improve educators' skills and effective curriculum delivery. Educators have gained the confidence to use the computers extensively in the preparation of their lessons and in the completion of their administrative duties. Most of the educators at Somerset West Methodist Primary use the facility to deliver e-lessons and have discovered the joy it evokes among the learners who eagerly anticipate each lesson in the laboratory. The computer laboratory is one of the busiest sections of the school and this continues long after the learners are dismissed for the day as the computer laboratory then comes alive with the buzz of educators doing preparatory work for the following day. Khanya has opened a whole new world to the educators as well as to the learners of this school. Simultaneously the school community benefits from Khanya's facilitation of their access to global electronic communication through the Oracle initiative. This initiative enables learners locally to communicate with learners in Europe. Another advantage that this process allows is the facility to address their questions about aspects of literary texts to the authors themselves. Educators at Somerset-West Methodist constantly thank the Khanya Project and Metropolitan Life for the remarkable change they have facilitated in their classrooms. Khanya's philosophy that ICT should be integrated with and enhance the curriculum is borne out by the learners who take the enthusiasm with which they approach lessons in the computer laboratory into their classrooms.
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