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Kingswood College celebrates the Matric Class of 2020
The Kingswood College Matric class of 2020 gathered a total of 95 distinctions.
Kingswood Senior School Head Tracy van Molendorff said: “We are incredibly proud of the class of 2020. They have shown true grit, resilience and determination amidst a year of uncertainty, on-line learning and a pandemic that resulted in a new reality for their matric class.
“We commend those who achieved distinctions and are incredibly proud of those who, through perseverance, achieved beyond our expectations. The committed and dedicated academic staff are to be commended on the way that they approached a year no one had prepared for, in a manner that ensured that this class was able to complete their matric year successfully and achieve to their full individual potential.
Good afternoon Programme Director, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Today, we are gathered here to announce the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination results. We are announcing these results in the context of what the NDP 2030, enjoins us to do, that “by 2030, South Africans should have access to education and training of the highest quality, leading to significantly improved learner outcomes. The performance of South African learners in international standardised tests, should be comparable to the performance of learners from countries at a similar level of development and with similar levels of access”.
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It is without doubt that the 2020 academic year, will be remembered as the year that, not only presented major health challenges, but a year when the entire world was engulfed by the by the novel COVID-19 pandemic. Government, with its education departments and its strategic partners, worked very hard to strike a balance between saving lives and the 2020
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Noluvuyo Fandeso serves breakfast to Grade 1s at CM Vellem Primary on the first day of school, 15 February 2021. Photo: Sue Maclennan First day brings new challenges
Hunger and social problems, both results of the Covid-19 lockdown and months out of school, are among the concerns of primary school principals in Makhanda.
GMDirect reports from some of these on the first day of term, Monday 15 February 2021.
Good Shepherd Primary Grade 1 teacher Susan Green comforts a tearful learner on the first day of school, 15 February 2021. Photo: Sue Maclennan
‘They must see it in your eyes’