A R631 000 donation from GrandWest is assisting a Belhar and Mitchell’s Plain school to offer a maths intervention programme to prepare pupils to face their upcoming maths exams with confidence.
Grade 8, 10 and 11 learners at AZ Berman High School, and Grade 9 learners at Excelsior Secondary School, will complete the 20-week programme in time for the end-of-year exams. The training runs every Saturday until November, with breaks that coincide with school holidays.
AZ Berman has previously teamed up with GrandWest to run the assistance programme in 2019 and in 2021. According to Mervyn Naidoo, General Manager at GrandWest, “The lockdown interrupted the programme in 2020, but the astounding success of the 2019 and 2021 programmes led to the school requesting that the extra lessons be extended to their Grade 8 pupils as well in 2022.”
“The complexities of maths can be incomprehensible to pupils who lack a good understanding of the core principles of the subject. The Maths Intervention Programme takes them back to basics to bed down their knowledge of key maths concepts, and shows them how to apply them. They won’t just ace their exams though. This maths grounding will equip these youngsters with a ‘problem solving’ mind-set that will guide their thinking in every aspect of their lives in the future too.”
In addition to the Maths Intervention Programmes, earlier this year GrandWest also sponsored a Leadership Workshop for AZ Berman’s Representative Council of Learners (RCL) and prefects at a cost of just under R43 000.
Management at the school noticed a lack of leadership qualities within their two biggest and most influential leadership components, namely the RCL and the prefects. Many learners experience anxiety attacks so it is important that the two groups they look up to can work cohesively together. The workshop took the form of a self-actualisation programme for the learner governing body.
