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July 2010 –  National Minister for Basic Education, Ms. Angie Motshekga, has announced a revised Curriculum (as part of the Schooling 2025 Plan, a strategy of the Department of Basic Education to improve the SA schooling system in the next 15 years)). The main focus will be on content and transfer of knowledge so that South African learners can become more competitive in the international arena. The focus also returns to the use of handbooks in the classroom. National Guidelines for teaching will be available from the Department in all the provinces. Most of the changes will take place during 2011 and 2012.
 

Prof. Rajmohan Ghandi, grandson of Mahatma Ghandi, addressed an audience in the Enlighten Hall on the topic of “Trying to understand and Influence our Changing World.” Prof. Ghandi is currently serving a two-year term as President if “Initiatives of Change International”. This event, organised by U3A Hermanus, was one of the highlights on the Enlighten calendar and well attended by the communities.

Trustees

Allan Powell is taking over the chair from Henri Kuiper.

Angela Heslop is vice chair.

Welcome to Johan Ryk.

 Management

Lois Kleyn, who has been the EET Trust Manager for the past 6 years, will be taking up Project Management fulltime.

Magriet Peter, the present Funding and Financial Manager, will become the new Trust Manager.

We look forward to yet another successful year, working together as a team. Lois has during the past six years proved that with skillful leadership, enthusiasm, and compassion, anything is possible.

 New Staff

Colleen Gawler – Finances and Admin

Aarnout Brombacher – Mathematics

Morne van Oodt – IT Specialist

Mabel Saul – Early Childhood Development

Theron Mque – Literacy Laboratory

Enlighten received funding from the Lottery Fund for the implementation of a Persona Dolls project as part of the Life Orientation, Arts and Culture project. This programme will be delivered at 4 primary schools and 4 pre-schools during 2010. The focus of the project is on HIV/Aids, Life Skills, Diversity and Values training. The schools have bought into the concept already and these life-size dolls have been ordered.

A new project, funded by the Sunshine Foundation, started in February 2010. This hugely exciting and creative project which will be facilitated by Brainwave IT, Cape Town and managed by Enlighten, features a mobile unit, fitted with 30 workstations to be taken into 7 schools in the Overstrand. The primary focus of the project is the upgrading of Maths and Literacy skills in schools who cannot access facilities at the Enlighten centre. Both the EET labs will work in conjunction with each other.

Enlighten Education Trust strives to improve the quality of education and life in the communities of the Overstrand. Enlighten Education Trust is unique in that we believe that the quality of education in general will not improve unless the problems in education are tackled from a variety of angles. For this reason Enlighten Education Trust intervenes in schools from management, curriculum, youth and social perspectives. Various projects are in place to support these initiatives. In addition to the various projects on the go, the Trust is involved in numerous activities that support their initiatives. NPO Number:  038 928 NPO PBO No 930003997 (REG IT 2621/ 2002)