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Palmietrivier VGK Primary
Situated approximately 7 kilometres outside Riversdal this tiny rural school has served the learners from the surrounding farms since 1957. The retrenchment of farm workers together with the establishment of low cost housing closer to town has drastically reduced the number of learners who attend this school.With a parent body that is almost totally illiterate and impoverished, parents are unable to support their children academically or financially contribute to their education and the school has assumed sole responsibility for this. Despite these hardships, Palmietrivier Primary does everything possible to ensure that their learners get the best possible education. Their delight at their inclusion into the Khanya Project and the introduction of technology into the educational process at the school was therefore greeted with overwhelming support and technology is having a positive impact on the school. Learning the skills required to use the technology presents a new and exciting challenge for educators – on that they are determined to meet head on. Educators keenly anticipate each training session with their Khanya facilitator and they are confident that should they get stuck, help is only a phone call away. While educators have only been taking their learners to the laboratory for a short period of time, they have already noticed changes in their learners’ attitude to work in this interactive environment – learners are more interested and more disciplined. They cover content in the classroom that they then experience visually in the laboratory. Learners thoroughly enjoy interacting with the educational software and great was their amusement and amazement when the computers ‘spoke’ back to them with words of encouragement or words of praise. Each successfully completed task is a motivation to do better on the next one and they find the colourful presentations in Cami and in the Khanya LTSM material highly stimulating, even for the reluctant reader. Now these learners too will be skilled with the technology skills that are a requirement in the work place. They will have the skills to participate in a technology driven society and the technology promises to have a great impact on the literacy and mathematical literacy of the learners. Without the guidance and financial support of the Khanya Project, Palmietrivier Primary would not have been able to expose their learners to technology and the gap that already exists between the skills of learners in nearby urban schools and themselves would have widened even further, making it all but impossible for learners to better their place in society.
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