It was our privilege to take Fritz Gerke on a visit to Sophakama recently where he had the opportunity to meet and spend some time with Sabelo as well as many of the learners. Fritz is the ROGZ key account manager in Europe and has been an enthusiastic financial supporter of the ROGZ Academy for […]
A new Library Assistant, Zanele Masizana, started today at Sophakama. The Bookery, an organisation committed to ‘Bringing the School Library to Life’ kindly, sponsored her position for the rest of the year. Sophakama Primary School is very appreciative of their involvement and support. The extra assistance means that the library will be open from 08h00 to […]
A library is an invaluable resource for the learners of any school. Especially a school like Sophakama Primary School in Dunoon, which is situated 7 km from the nearest community library, quite a distance for learners to travel. While the school waited for the completion of their new school building the learners had no access […]
Table View Library is the closest community library resource to Sophakama Primary School. They take their role in the community seriously. The Books and Beyond project team met with them to ascertain how the relationship between school and library could be extended. Their first initiative at the school was a reading competition, which will become an annual […]
We collected books from our communities to be used either in the classrooms or the school library. The teachers had great fun selection books for their classrooms! We are busy investigating exciting programmes to benefit Grade 1 children who have missed out on a basic education foundation. We have been working closely with Edgemead Primary School, […]
