Tomorrow, Provincial Education MEC Donald Grant will be visiting Oaklands Secondary school in Lansdowne to inspect their new school building. The school has been “replaced” in terms of the department’s infrastructure programme.
This programme includes targeting schools where there has been a decline in the quality of infrastructure over a long period of time. In most instances, these structures are made from wooden or chipboard materials that were built under the apartheid era. As part of the “replacement programme”, these schools are replaced with new brick and mortar structures.
Oaklands Secondary’s old structure was a wooden chipboard structure that was 57 years old. Learners have now moved into their new and improved facility at the beginning of the school year.
Minister Grant will be inspecting the new school site, as well as, chat to some of the learners about their new school. He will also be releasing information on other current “replacement projects”.
He will also be meeting the staff at the school, where he will congratulate educators on the school’s improved performance in the 2011 National Senior Certificate. The school achieved a 90.2% pass rate, compared to 59% the previous year.
Date: Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Time: 10h10
Where: Oaklands Secondary - Chukker Road, Lansdowne
Media enquiries:
Bronagh Casey
Spokesperson for MEC Donald Grant
Cell: 072 724 1422
Tel: 021 467 2377
Fax: 021 425 3616
E-mail: Bronagh.casey@pgwc.gov.za
