Fetal Alcohol Syndrome training

The HCET has commissioned Aarnout Brombacher of Brombacher & Associates to analyse performance levels in mathematics in every grade and educational phase, and identify the interventions necessary to address gaps and shortcomings. He spent a week at the school in early September, and is seen with the Grade 3 class in the picture below. Brombacher…

ANDREW BARNES-WEBB, an IT specialist based in London, has begun to raise money for the HCET by competing in marathons and endurance events. His first challenge was the Ironman South Africa triathlon held in Nelson Mandela Bay on Sunday 6 April 2013. More than 2 000 athletes undertook a sea swim of 3,8 kilometres, followed…

In September, the Grade 3 and Grade 5 classes and their teachers spent two days each with teacher developer Margie Osler on Poplar Grove Farm¸ in order to reinforce teaching and learning methods and processes. Fun activities with a learning content included walking trails with various challenges, including balancing on fallen trees; walking a labyrinth;…

Fransie Boorman, second from the left, an HCET graduate and bursary holder, has been chosen as Head Boy of Colesberg High School and Head Boy of the school hostel for 2014.

IN JULY 2013, the HCET received a visit from Engela Fourie, project manager of Tjhabelang, an educational project in Bloemfontein from ECD up to Grade 3. Following her visit, she wrote the following letter: Dear Lesley Thank you for the opportunity to visit Hantam once again and for explaining your operational plan. You and your…

The Hantam Community Education Trust mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was and remains our inspiration. May his hopes for the education of South Africa’s children live on in our collective work. Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that a peasant’s daughter can become a doctor, that the…