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LANGUAGE GURUS

Hudson Park Primary School pupils, from left, Kira Jade Smith, Simone Mguli and Kanego Mkhabela received national awards in the SACEE language challenge. This is an outstanding award Picture: SUPPLIED

How to make a kid from rural Eastern Cape the equal of a Sandtonite

By Penwell Dlamini Government should consider teaching subjects in indigenous languages or strengthening the learning of English if it wants to improve results in basic education‚ Wits University education expert Professor Mary Metcalfe…

PROUD LOT

Well done to George Randell’s Yonwaba Nongogo, Sibulele Selana and Taylor-Paige Marillier for their participation in the annual SACEE Read Aloud competition which took place recently. A special mention and big congratulations goes to…

AVID BOOKWORMS

The SACEE Sheryl Human Read Out Loud Contest for Grade 6 and 7 pupils saw 15 schools enter 59 pupils. Stirling Primary School congratulated their pupils on doing ‘exceptionally well’. Grade 6 pupil Amy-Lee Drake came first in her grade,…

East London schools square off in spelling bee contest

GEORGE Randell Primary School hosted a foundation phase South African Council for English Education (SACEE) spelling bee last week. Fourteen schools from East London, including Gonubie Primary, Hudson Park, Merrifield Prep, Lilyfontein…

Stirling team is the bees knees

STIRLING Primary School hosted and went on to win a Grade 1 to 7 SACEE (South African Council of English Educators) Spelling Bee on Wednesday last week. The school competed against fourteen primary schools at this, the fourth SACEE…

TEFL course ticket to seeing the world

THE East London Language Institute has been running a TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language) course for the past year and has seen great success. “This is our fourth course and the classes just keep getting bigger,” director of the…