DownloadBy Sibusiso Letawana
15 April 2025
On 8 April 2025 all South African schools reopened, beginning term 2. Eldorado Park Secondary School in Eldorado Park, Extension 7, announced during school assembly that the learners’ report cards would be published on Saturday, 12 April 2025, for all grades. The new timetable was published later the afternoon of 8 April. The assembly was ended with a promise that during this term, the school plans on improving by everyone doing their job more effectively than before!!
Following the assembly, many learners were asking themselves if the school serious about being much more effective concerning their jobs as educators. Questions like these needed to be asked because if the educators excel in what was promised to the learners, then maybe the learners will also improve their grades.
Jabulani Mazibuko, a grade 11 learner, commented and said that he was very surprised that the principal and the educators talked about plans to improve outcomes. Mazibuko believes them because the school managed in the publication of the report cards and the school timetable.
Another grade 11 learner, Casidy Williams, reflected on the announcement saying, “I don’t think the school will keep their promise because they tend to be lazy during the term. The publication of the report cards and the school timetable is a way to trick us into believing they will improve.”
Later that day after the timetables were published, learners spread the word saying what the school is doing encouraged them as learners to also improve and do well. Some learners were saying that the educators were starting to take learner education seriously and now that is the case, they were now also looking to learn and give the teachers complete attention when they are in class and do well in their studies.
Eldorado Park Secondary School staff are doing a good job so far this year. During the holidays it showed that the educators were not just on a break, they were also developing ways to keep the school on top form.
By Mpho Moiloa
Organisation: Rena Le Lona
Title: Ubuntu
Age: 13 Years
Ubuntu means ‘botho’ and ‘umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu’, which can be loosely translated as humanity and that we find humanity through valuing other people and treating them with respect and care. Having ubuntu can make people love you, it means you are not to be heartless or selfish because you will need others to help you one day.
Having ubuntu can make you friends, if you are going through something, you will have people with you. If you have a good heart people will love, you a lot
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