Capricorn Primary School
The school is what is called a Foundation Phase Primary School which caters for 4 grades, – Grades R through 3, – it has 12 classrooms and approx 400 children between 6 and 10 years old (35 per class). It is designed in such a way that it can be extended by building on another 12 classrooms for the other 4 grades of primary school.
The participants in this project are determined that this school be a model of how to provide good quality education to a disadvantaged community (much as the Library and Pre-school Creche have become in their spheres). The Dept of Education shares this vision.
This requires a lot of extra educational input over and above the basics which the Dept of Education provides, and our overwhelming need at the moment is to find funding to pay the extra teachers, assistants, social worker and remedial professionals, which the State will not provide.
