Pick n Pay School Club today awarded Grade 5 learner Keschrie Booysen from Philadelphia Primary School in Atlantis with a Hero Award for being the winner of the Western Cape Education Department’s (WCED) Story Stars Competition. She wrote and narrated her own story which is now available on the department’s website.
Andre Nel, head of sustainability at Pick n Pay, says that they wanted to celebrate this amazing and proud achievement – at the young age of 10 – amongst Booysen’s fellow learners and teachers.
Apart from receiving a Hero Award certificate and badge in a ceremony attended by her grade, Booysen also received a R1000 PnP gift card. Her teacher, Ms Loubscher, who supported her entry into the WCED competition, was also given a R500 gift card. This is in addition to her main prize from the WCED. To celebrate the occasion, the Pick n Pay School Club team also presented the school’s Grade 5 learners with Easter eggs and PnP pencil cases made from recycled plastic bottles.
The Hero Awards forms part of the Pick n Pay School Club and aims to encourage positive behaviour and attitudes in schools by celebrating and rewarding everyday acts of heroism in the classroom, on the playground or sports field, or in their community.
Learners achievements, whether big or small, deserve to be awarded, and this is what the Pick n Pay Hero Awards Programme aims to achieve. “It’s important to celebrate moments of achievement amongst our nation’s children so that we further motivate them to always work on reaching their goals and dreams. We are very proud of young Keschrie and her talent,” says Nel.
Philadelphia Primary School forms part of the Pick n Pay School Club network of over 3,000 schools that receive free educational resources each year to support learners and teachers.
The school’s Grade 1 learners were also surprised with stationery hampers, valued at over R200, and the school received three buckets of wet wipes, each containing 2,000 wet wipes.
