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Rooiberg Primary
Established on the farm Wynandsrivier some sixteen kilometres from Oudtshoorn, Rooiberg Primary has served the rural community of Wynandsrivier and De Hoop since 1971. The school and the community it serves are impoverished and severely disadvantaged and the majority of parents are illiterate. In practice this translates into learners who are unable to turn to parents for assistance with homework or even simple reading assignments and extremely weak results in systemic evaluation of literacy and numeric ability.These shortcomings aside, or, indeed, because of them, Rooiberg Primary is determined to offer their learners the best educational opportunities available to them and they were delighted at the opportunity to become partners in the Khanya Project. They believe that the technology Khanya has installed is vital to their learners’ development as they are now able to impart different learning methods to their learners and they have access to a host of resources that make their lessons more relevant and more accessible to the learners. Educators attend training sessions enthusiastically and they implement their skills immediately. One of the truly wonderful things to note at Rooiberg Primary is the lack of fear about the technology: educators love to explore the software, ‘playing’ with it as they discover the best way to present topics and concepts to their learners in an innovative and interesting manner. Educators are able to use a variety of teaching strategies to ensure that learners’ attention remains focused. The IEWBs, dataprojectors and laptop computers Khanya has provided have given learners at Rooiberg Primary access to technology for the first time. They are exposed to technology integrated curriculum delivery and they are being taught in an interactive visually stimulating learning environment. The technology installed is particularly well-suited to the multigrade classroom that exists at Rooiberg Primary. Group work is more manageable and at other times the teacher is able to focus on a particular ability group while the others work independently. The educators’ computer literacy skills have been improved to a point where all administrative tasks are managed electronically. The contact with the Khanya facilitator ensures that educators don’t only learn a particular software package but that the focus remains steadily on curriculum delivery and lesson development. Learners at Rooiberg Primary are the real winners. Their lessons are more interesting and they participate enthusiastically in lessons – even the usually reserved learner now participates willingly. Learners have become part of the lesson and they are gaining exposure to technology that they would otherwise not have had. This tiny farming school that operates in a multigrade environment is very excited about technology and they are determined that their learners will derive maximum benefit from the technology and that, with Khanya at their side, they will attain new academic heights.
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