I was so excited when I went to Shine today - not only is my little grade 2 Qamanande reading like a bomb: (he couldn't recognise letters of the alphabet in February )This is mostly down to the remedial help he's had from the teacher and from his exposure at Literacy hour and a bit from me, but in the foyer there was a display of the trip the Astronomy quiz team took to Sutherland where they saw the International space station go over and meteorites and visited SALT and stayed over for a weekend - sponsored by Hertz (the vehicle and a tank of petrol) and Truworths a major donor; the science teacher went along as well and he was overwhelmed with what he learned. The same woman who coached them and took them, Margie Rosenberg, was the person who submitted a garden application to Nestle - she got an award from Woolies and they got (amongst other things) 300 seedlings and a great deal of publicity including a film being made, and the relevant children and teacher being able to go to the film studio; lastly as I was leaving, a group of elderlies were getting off various buses for a tea which the (I think grade 7's) were hosting in the hall.
Really inspiring!
Rosemary
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