Reading every single day
From Grade R to Grade 7 every class begins with twenty quiet minutes of reading — English, Setswana, or Afrikaans. We have built a small but loved library from donated books.
Our reading culture
Rooigrond · North West
No-Fee · Quintile 1
Est. 1998
A small school that loves big, in the heart of the platteland.
We are a public combined school of 1 184 learners and 38 educators, serving families along the Rooigrond road. The buildings are modest. The mornings are dusty. The teaching is patient, daily, and stubbornly hopeful.
1 184
Learners enrolled in 2024
38
Full-time educators & support staff
31:1
Average learner-to-teacher ratio
28
Years quietly serving Rooigrond
What we’re about · Tirelo ya rona
A no-fee school with a long memory and a careful eye on every child.
Three things visitors notice on their first walk through. None of them require expensive equipment — they only require a school that has decided who it wants to be.
Learning outside the classroom
A vegetable garden, a small chicken coop, monthly veld walks. Children grow some of the spinach the NSNP kitchen serves, and learn the names of trees in three languages.
A week with usKnowing every name
Class teachers send a short weekly note home about each child — one small win, one thing to practise. Parents know who to phone, and teachers do not work alone.
Working with parentsA school is not its walls. It is the small, daily, ordinary kindnesses that fill the spaces between them.
A note from a parent
“Ms. Botha emails me every Friday with one small win Lerato had that week.”
Mrs. Dineo Mokoena’s daughter is in Grade 3. She works night shifts at the Mahikeng hospital and sometimes cannot make a parents’ meeting. The Friday note keeps her in the room.
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