Mission
To deliver the CAPS curriculum with patience, fairness and joy, so that every learner from Grade R to Grade 7 leaves us reading confidently in two languages and believing their own questions matter.
About / Our Story
A small public school. A long, patient list of names we know by heart.
Founded in 1985 in Block C, Madidi, our school grew with the township around it. Today 550 learners and 16 educators share the same yard, the same morning bell, and the same belief: every child deserves a steady adult who notices them.
Our Story
Forty years of showing up — through dust, drought and small, steady wins.
Madidi Primary opened its doors in 1985 with three classrooms, two volunteer teachers and a borrowed chalkboard. The school was built by the community itself — parents mixed the cement on weekends, and the original gate is still the one our learners walk through every morning. Almost forty years later we are a No-Fee, Section 21 public primary, registered under DBE EMIS number 600100974 and accountable to a parent-led School Governing Body that meets in the staff room on the last Tuesday of every month.
On any given school day, 550 learners arrive between 07:30 and 07:50. Sixteen full-time educators teach across Grade R to Grade 7, supported by two general assistants and a school nutrition team that prepares hot meals through the National School Nutrition Programme — for many of our children, this is the most reliable meal of the day. Our class sizes average 34 learners, our teacher-to-learner ratio sits at 1:34, and our campus covers a single fenced erf on Stand 382, Block C.
Our mission is plain, and the staffroom poster above the kettle says it best: teach every child as if they were our own. We will not promise glossy facilities, robotics labs or overseas exchanges — what we promise is a teacher who knows your child by name in week one, a hot lunch every school day, a quiet corner to read in, and a community that turns up for prize-giving in the rain.
550Learners
16Educators
1:34Teacher Ratio
1985Year Founded
A No-Fee school is not a poor school. It is a public school that refuses to make a child's education depend on whether her grandmother got paid this month.
Mr. P. S. W. Phajane · Principal
What we believe
Mission, Vision & Values — written by parents, signed by staff.
Our SGB and staff redrafted these together in 2022. They hang inside every classroom door because we want our learners to read them aloud, not just under them.
Vision
A Madidi where the public primary school is the busiest, proudest building in the township — where SGB meetings overflow, alumni come back to teach, and no learner is ever counted as ‘just a number on a form’.
Values
Botho — humanity. Boikarabelo — accountability. Boikgantsho — quiet pride. We borrow these three Setswana words from our community elders and we expect every adult on this site to live them in front of the children, every day.