| Take a Girl Child to Work Day 2008 |
Maths Centre Incorporating Sciences has participated in the Take a Girl Child to Work Day (29 May 2008), Cell C’s very successful workplace exposure initiative, for the sixth year in a row. A fun filled day was planned for the 18 girls visiting Maths Centre Head Office in Johannesburg.
The girls were exposed to variety of activities that Maths Centre trainers, as a service provider for Maths, Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship Education, deals with on a daily basis. |
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| Sharanjeet Shan (National Executive Director, Maths Centre Incorporating Sciences) and some Maths Centre staff with the 18 girls that attended the day. |
Sharanjeet Shan (National Executive Director, Maths Centre Incorporating Sciences) interacting with girls that attended the Take a Girl Child to Work day. |
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| Some activities that the girls were engaged in during the day:
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| Learner and Teacher Support Materials donated |
| Leanne Barlett was instrumental in the arrangements to dispatch a large consignment of Learners and Teacher Support Material (LSM) from Sawtry Community College (UK) to Maths Centre. |
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Books from the consignment were distributed to Maths Centre Provincial offices to be used by field trainers and teachers in schools. In all Maths Centre offices field trainers use the books as a resource to plan for interventions in schools. In most centres the textbooks are available to be used by teachers at any time for their preparations of learning experiences. |
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| Diepsloot Combined school in Gauteng Province received a set of textbooks for each grade for their library. This school is in an informal settlement. Their supplier has as yet not delivered LSM to the school. Each matriculant received an Algebra textbook from the cosignment of books. |
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A box with graphical calculators that was also part of the consignment, is now being used by Maths Centre field trainers during Maths and Science teacher workshops. Four sets of claculators that can be used on overhead projectors were distributed umongst Maths Centre high school projects, to be used during Maths Centre interventions. |
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The textbooks are of great help in all the grades with challenging activities within different contexts that the learners can engage in.
On behalf of all the Maths Centre trainers, teachers and learners benefiting from this generous gesture, a big thank you to Leanne and the Sawtry Community College in the UK! |
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| Visit by NFTE - New York |
| On the 15th May 2008, Maths Centre had the pleasure of receiving an international visitor, Erin Koeblitz, from NFTE (National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship) in New York. The main focus of Erin’s visit was to observe the Maths Centre Entrepreneurship Project in schools that are funded by the Umsombomvu Youth Fund. The Maths Centre Entrepreneurship Education Project is run in 6 Provinces (Gauteng, North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga) and in 10 schools per province. |
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On the 16th May 2008 Erin, accompanied by Maths Centre Entrepreneurship Manager, Sarika Bachoo and North West trainer, Phumla Trolly, visited Thuto-Kitso High School and Mathaleng High School in the North West. |
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| In Gauteng Province; Altmont Technical Secondary, Thabo High School and Pace Commercial Secondary were visited. |
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In the Western Cape; Elsies River High, Bellville South, Bernadino Heights High and Zola Commercial High School were visited. |
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| Erin was well received by teachers and learners and the school management teams of all schools visited. Learners displayed their business ideas and products to Erin. She said that she was very impressed with the Entrepreneurship Project at South African school level as their Entrepreneurship Programme is run internationally in 6 countries of which Germany, United Kingdom and China are some. |
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| Transnet Sharp Minds Programme Launch |
The Transnet Sharp Minds project was launched on the15th May 2008 in Johannesburg at the Atlas Studio, Milpark. Learners on the Sharp Minds Programme are assisted by Maths Centre trainers to achieve outstanding performance in Maths and Science incorporating Technology and consequently they can contribute meaningfully towards alleviating the challenge of scarce skills.
The Sharp Minds Get Ahead in life programme also aims to develop sound curriculum knowledge amongst educators to improve teaching and learning in the fields of Maths, Science and Technology.
This is an exciting programme that targets 400 Grade 11 Learners and 160 Educators from 4 Provinces:
- Sekhukhune in Limpopo,
- Maluti A Phofung in the Free State,
- Mtubatuba in KZN and
- Moretele in the North West Province.
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Sharanjeet Shan, Maths Centre National Executive Director, and learners that have been selected for the Transnet programme. When the photograph was taken, the learners promised a 100% pass rate.
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