Education MEC help with school vegetable garden
14 August 2006
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool and Education MEC Cameron Dugmore will
on Wednesday 16 August help children, teachers and parents to plant seeds for
the vegetable garden of the Kenmere Primary School in Kensington at 08h00. This
is part of the Community Schools Initiative week of the Western Cape Education
Department (WCED) which kicked off today.
This will become an annual feature under the overall banner of the Learning
Cape Festival. During this week 14 - 18 August some of the 200 primary and high
schools throughout the province will be involved in community outreach
programmes.
This morning MEC Dugmore visited the St Paul's Farm School in Faure, where
he handed out vegetables to the surrounding community with the learners and
teachers.
At the Noluthando School for the Deaf in Khayelitsha, the school informed
MEC Dugmore of their various community outreach activities and in Kuilsriver,
MEC Dugmore visited the Sarepta Old Age Home with learners from the Alta du
Toit Special School.
This week MEC Dugmore will be visiting more schools and assisting in
planting seeds for a vegetable garden, painting toilets, cleaning-up the school
yard, launch the Lentegeur Education Foundation, and help distribute blankets
and food to residents in an informal settlement in Mitchell's Plain.
Programme Wednesday, 16 August
08h00 - 08h30: Visit Kenmere Primary School with Premier, planting seeds for
vegetable garden
08h40 - 09h00: Wingfield Primary School (painting of toilets)
16h00: Visit Zola Secondary (school is teaching parents of grade 11 learners
basic computer skills and giving them e-mail addresses)
17h00: Visit Inthando Yethu Community Learning Centre (school to start with
its first literacy classes for members of the community they have just
recruited)
18h30: Visit Kalkfontein Primary, with MEC Uys (medical personnel sets up
clinic in school building, community invited for check-ups)
Thursday, 17 August
14h15: Launch of the Lentegeur Education Foundation, 10 schools from
community, Lentegeur Civic Centre, Mitchell's Plain
15h15: Westridge High School, join school in handing out blankets and food
at nearby informal settlement
Friday, 18 August
09h00 - 10h45: Keynote Address Youth Leadership and Safe Schools -
Cumberland Hotel, Worcester
11h00: Visit Esselenpark Senior Secondary (repairs, cleaning up and painting
of flats, letterboxes for each flat unit)
12h00: Rawsonville Primary (cleaning up school grounds, involving unemployed
parents, launch of literacy campaign for parents, inviting parents into school,
South African Police Service (SAPS) talks on safety, puppet shows, march
against child abuse and drugs, soup for the community)
13h00: Goudinibad Primary (painting, clean toilets, gardening, SAPS talks on
safety, puppet shows)
14h00: Slanghoek Primary (decorate the school entrance; build a rock garden
and painting school)
Enquiries:
Gert Witbooi
Media Liaison Officer
Tel: (021) 467 2523
Fax: (021) 425 5689
Cell: 082 550 3938
E-mail: gwitbooi@pgwc.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Education, Western Cape Provincial Government
14 August 2006
