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A small place, a full year.

What a Madikwe school year actually looks like — the classrooms, the meals, the assemblies, the corners children disappear into to read.

Our campus

Six classrooms, one hall, half a hectare.

We are honest about what we have. None of it is fancy. All of it is cared for.

Bright classroom with neat desks and learners' work pinned to the wall
Six general classrooms Whitewashed walls, donated desks, learners' work everywhere, big windows facing the courtyard.
A reading corner with floor cushions and a low bookshelf
Reading corner About 1,400 donated books in Setswana, English and isiZulu. Open every break.
NSNP kitchen with two cooks preparing a hot lunch over large pots
NSNP kitchen A hot meal cooked here every school day for all 122 learners and 9 staff.
Multi-purpose hall set up with mats for assembly
Multi-purpose hall Assembly, dining, choir rehearsal, parent meetings — same room, four jobs.
School vegetable garden with children weeding spinach beds
Garden & courtyard Spinach, beetroot, beans. An Acacia tree for shade. Rain barrels.

We commit to a safe, orderly campus, a borehole that runs, working ablutions, and a kitchen that opens by 11 a.m. every school day. The rest, we keep working on.

A year in pictures

Eighteen ordinary, extraordinary days.

From the first Monday assembly of January to the Grade 6 farewell in November.

Whole-school Monday morning assembly under the South African flag
Monday AssemblyWhole school, every Monday, 08:20.
Children sprinting at the finish line of the school sports day
Sports DayMid-October on the soil track.
Heritage Day with learners in traditional Setswana attire
Heritage Day24 September — the whole village comes.
Reading Week — a child reading aloud to her class
Reading WeekMarch, in the hall.
Grade 6 field trip to Pilanesberg National Park
Pilanesberg tripGrade 6, every June.
Choir performing at the Madikwe community hall
Choir performanceMayoral inauguration 2024.
Parents in the courtyard at the school's open day
Parents' Open DayTwice a year, Saturday morning.
Cultural day with traditional dance and song
Cultural DaySetswana song, isiZulu dance, Afrikaans poems.
Grade 6 farewell with hand-decorated certificates
Grade 6 farewellThe last week of November.
Children handing flowers to teachers on Teachers' Day
Teachers' Day5 October.
Soccer match against neighbouring Tlhakong Primary
Soccer matchVs. Tlhakong Primary.
Children marching in the Madikwe Youth Day parade
Youth Day paradeMadikwe, 16 June.
Grade 5 weighing the school garden's spinach harvest
Garden harvestSpinach into the NSNP pot.
Maths Fun Day with games on the courtyard floor
Maths Fun DayNumbers drawn in chalk.
Spelling bee winner holding a hand-decorated certificate
Spelling BeeSetswana & English rounds.
Local NGO handing over a box of new reading books
Book donation200 new readers in March.
Mandela Day cleanup along the school's perimeter fence
Mandela Day67 minutes around the fence.
End-of-term picnic on the courtyard with mats and shared snacks
Children's Day picnicEnd-of-term, mats on the grass.
Outcomes & recognition

What the children have done
since 2014.

We don't measure ourselves by trophies. But we are proud of these — and we do count them, because they help our children believe what is possible.

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Provincial-level awards across academic, cultural and sporting categories since 2014.

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Subject competition placements (chess, spelling, storytelling, choir).

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Grade 6 progression to Grade 7 at our feeder secondary schools (2024).

Three learners with NW Setswana Storytelling certificates
2024 · Provincial

NW Setswana Storytelling Festival — Top 3

Lerato, Onkgopotse and Tebogo · Grade 5–6 storytelling team.

Two boys at the Bojanala Chess Open
2024 · District

Bojanala Junior Chess Open — Qualifiers

Two of our Grade 6 chess club qualified for the regional round.

Three artworks selected for the heritage exhibition
2025 · Provincial

NW Schools' Heritage Art — 3 Works Selected

Cardboard-and-pigment paintings by Grade 4–6 hanging in Mahikeng.

Choir on stage at the mayoral inauguration
2024 / 2025 · Civic

Madikwe Mayoral Inauguration Choir

Invited two years running to open the inauguration ceremony.

Spelling bee finalist holding her certificate
2025 · Provincial round

National Spelling Bee — Provincial Finalist

Onthatile, Grade 6, made the NW provincial top 12.

NSNP best practice plaque on a kitchen wall
2024 · National

NSNP Best Practice — North West Region

Recognition for our garden-to-kitchen integration model.

School news

What we've been up to.

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Parents and prospective Grade 1 learners at the 2026 admissions Open House
2026 · 21 March

2026 Open House — meet our teachers, see the classrooms, ask anything.

Two open mornings before the May admissions deadline. RSVP by phone or WhatsApp; walk-ins welcome too. Hot tea and koeksisters provided.

New gas stove being installed in the NSNP kitchen
2026 · 04 March

NSNP kitchen upgrade — new stove and double sink.

Funded by the SGB and a local farm trust.

A box of newly donated reading books on a desk
2026 · 18 February

200 new readers for the corner library.

Donated by Madikwe Rotary; mostly Setswana & isiZulu.

Solar panel newly installed on the borehole pump
2025 · 27 November

Solar pump on the borehole — water through every break.

No more waiting for the load-shedding window.

School choir on stage at the mayoral inauguration
2025 · 30 October

Choir invited to Mayoral Inauguration — second year running.

Forty learners performed for an audience of 600.

Grade 6 learners by the Pilanesberg viewpoint
2025 · 12 June

Grade 6 Pilanesberg trip — 23 first-time visitors.

For most, the first elephant they have ever seen.

A learner showing a Reading Buddies log book
2025 · 30 May

Reading Buddies — 92% home-bag return rate this term.

Up from 67% in 2023. Parents are a big part of this.

Heritage Day photo essay cover
2024 · 24 September

Heritage Day, in twelve photographs.

A photo essay from our 2024 Heritage Day celebration.