WESSA Schools Programme Impact Report 2020

WHAT CHANGED FOR THE SCHOOL AND THE COMMUNITY?

As a school, we have been able to cater for some of the most-needy learners and their families, by supplying them with vegetables from the garden. They are able to eat together healthily with their families. Now, instead of cooking the vegetables in the school kitchen, we identify learners and give them those vegetables.

At present about 10 learners per cycle benefit from our food garden and every year almost 50 learners at our school benefit from the project!

HOW DID THE PROJECT AFFECT YOU? Being part of the programme has helped me to know more about my learners and their background. It has also given me more insight into environmental issues, as well as allowed me to work together with learners to create awareness campaigns for our school and our community. The programme has given me an understanding of how to link projects to the curriculum and how we can make education more fun by including outdoor activities. As a coordinator I have learned to delegate work to learners and other teachers and also learned to complete a portfolio professionally and punctually. YOUR WISHES FOR THE FUTURE? My wish is that we might be able to accommodate all our learners in all our projects. We have been recognised as a well performing Arts and Culture Team, and I hope our school keeps on performing and keeps the standard at the top. We plan to have three sections of our food gardens around the school. Since our school is one of the largest in the Free State, with over 1,600 learners, it will be a dream come true to have all learners eating healthy meals with food produced in our gardens. I personally wish that our school might be recognised nationwide for our good work and that we might serve to help the community around us as well as other schools in the suburb. ” “

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