Maths performance analysed

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.

EARLIER this year, Grade Nines undertook a three-day science trip centred on Graaff-Reinet. Led by Lucien Pienaar and Jan Augustyn, the trip was highly successful, and the group had a great time. On day one, the group travelled from Colesberg to Graaff-Reinet, viewing fossils and Bushmen paintings on the way. In the afternoon they visited…

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…

Angelina Allens, who taught special needs children at the HCET, died suddenly in early November 2013. She was buried at Grootfontein after a service at Hanglip Farm. Angelina, the daughter of Dawid and Taisie Allens, was born on Grootfontein Farm on 29 June 1981. She attended the Poortjie Farm School, the Umthombo Wolwazi Combined Farm…

The Rotary Club of Carroll Creek in the state of Maryland in the United States recently honoured Estelle Jacobs, the HCET’s project manager, by naming her a Paul Harris Fellow. Estelle was recognised for her efforts – in collaboration with the organisation Hope in Africa – to promote the health and well-being of children in…