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CAPS-aligned, taught in Setswana and English. We teach what the children need first — reading, numbers, the world — and we teach it well.
We follow the Department of Basic Education's CAPS framework, with our LOLT (language of learning and teaching) being Setswana in the Foundation Phase and English from Grade 4 onward. We do not chase trends. We try to teach the basics well, and we make space for the things our children love.
English First Additional Language paired with Setswana Home Language. Reading aloud daily, story-mapping, choral reading, and a parent-take-home book each Friday.
From counting in Grade R to fractions, decimals and basic geometry by Grade 6. We use bottle caps, sticks and number lines before pencils — concrete first, then abstract.
Children ask questions about what they see at home — rain, soil, the borehole pump, the goats. We answer with simple investigations using local materials and the school garden.
Local first, then national, then African. Grade 4 learns the history of our village; Grade 5 maps Bojanala; Grade 6 studies South Africa's democracy and the Constitution we live under.
Personal & Social Wellbeing, Physical Education, and Creative Arts — taught together in the way they are lived. Children learn to wash hands, to cross the R510, to sing in harmony, and to ask for help.
From Grade 4 we make things with our hands — paper structures, simple levers, water-saving devices for the garden. Coding happens once a fortnight on shared donated tablets.
Recognise letters and your own name. Count to 20 in Setswana and English.
Read short Setswana sentences. Add and subtract within 20.
Read a short story aloud. Tell time. Write your own three-sentence paragraph.
Read fluently in Setswana. Use written multiplication. Write a one-page story.
Switch LOLT to English. Begin fractions. Run your first investigation.
Read a chapter book. Work with decimals. Map your village on paper.
Write a research report. Use percentages. Speak in front of the whole school.
All enrichment is free. Funded by the SGB, parent volunteers, donations of books and instruments, and a stubborn refusal to skip them.
Grade 1–6 take turns telling — and inventing — folktales in Setswana. Led by Mma Refilwe with grandparent guests once a month.
Outcomes: top 3 in 2024 NW provincial Setswana storytelling festival.
Forty learners. Two donated marimbas. One conductor with twelve years of patience. We sing isiZulu, Setswana, English and Sesotho.
Outcomes: invited to Madikwe Mayoral Inauguration 2024 and 2025.
Spinach, beetroot, onions, beans. Grown by Grade 5, eaten by everyone via the NSNP kitchen. Lessons in soil, water, and patience.
Outcomes: 100% of NSNP greens sourced on-site for 5 of 10 school months.
One donated set per pair. Twelve weeks to learn the rules. Forty weeks to lose well, then to win once. Coached by Mr Tshepo.
Outcomes: 2 learners qualified for 2024 Bojanala Junior Chess Open.
Grade 6 reads with Grade 1, twice a week, for 25 minutes. We tracked it for two years — the Grade 1 readers move 0.7 grade levels faster.
Outcomes: home-reading bag programme: 92% return rate this year.
We paint on whatever we can find — cardboard, old exam paper, the back of feed bags. Twice a year we mount a real exhibition in the hall.
Outcomes: 2025 NW Schools' Heritage Art Exhibition — 3 selected works.
Designed around hunger, distance, and how children actually learn. Aftercare available till 17:00 for working-parent families.
