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Chairperson of the Ganda Ganda Residents Forum in Port St Johns, Jessie Willard, confirmed they have another opportunity in the education field to help Grade 12 learners improve their marks in mathematics.
Willard confirmed that in order to ensure that their mission is fulfilled, they have worked with Tangible Africa and Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha.
According to her, they looked at the poor maths results in 2022 and 2023, and have decided to train four teachers from Port St Johns in Digital Literacy, so teachers can assist Grade 12 learners improve their maths results this year.
“For now there are two schools that have benefited from this programme. They are Caguba Senior Secondary School and Port St Johns Senior Secondary School which fall under the OR Tambo Coastal District.
“These learners will each be given tablets that have all the maths information needed to assist them to improve their maths,” said Willard.
She added that this does not only assist the learners, but also the teachers, to gain more information.
Willard confirmed that these sessions will take place on Saturdays.
According to Willard, they chose these two schools because they under-performed when it comes to maths.
Willard said plans are in place to assist schools as they have been doing with coding as well.
“Our focus is learners in the villages in deep rural areas but without finance to carry us it is impossible and difficult reaching out as we want to,” she said. “For example, we need a bakkie to transport our tools and facilitators to the rural areas, and we do not have any means to purchase it.”
She said they have identified learners who are very weak in maths, and with these programmes they aim to assist learners achieve good pass rates, preparing them for tertiary education.
Willard added that there are many university dropouts because they are weak in maths, and coding assists with design, critical computational thinking, and problem solving, that will assist them to be successful in the future.
“Many kids want to be engineers; others want to study computer sciences but then seem to get bored and drop out, because they do not have all the skills required for the careers,” said Willard.
