“Mama walks to the tap”
Grade 3B · Liyana M.
Painted after a long week without water at home. ‘She gets tired but she still smiles for me.’
School Life / Beyond the bell
The bell ends the lesson. The school day, however, keeps going.
A Madidi school year is small, modest, and full of dust. It is also full of choirs in the hall on Friday mornings, kanga-cloth costumes on Heritage Day, and Grade 5 hands holding watering cans.
Activities & Events
Six small celebrations the school year cannot do without.
On Heritage Day a parent told me her grandmother had walked past this gate for fifty years. Today, she said, was the first time the gate had walked back to her.
Mr. P. Mahlangu · Heritage Co-ordinator
Student Work
Five pieces from this year — chosen by the learners themselves.
None of these are perfect. All of them are honest. The Past Works Archive lives outside the principal's office in a wooden cabinet — caregivers are welcome to browse.
Bilingual poem · “Ke nna”
Grade 5A · Karabo S.
Two languages, one self. Read aloud at the Family Story Festival to applause from his grandmother.
Clay model · “Our yard”
Grade 4B · Thabo R.
Made from clay dug behind the school, fired in the classroom oven. The figure in the doorway is his sister waiting for the taxi.
Rainwater Project poster
Grade 7A · Naledi P.
Won 2nd place at the 2024 Bojanala District science fair. Her diagrams are now used by the SGB to plan a real water-tank install.
English speech · “A small voice”
Grade 6A · Boitumelo D.
Three minutes long. About waiting for her father to come home from the mines. Mr. Dlamini comments: ‘Honest, brave, and grammatically perfect.’