113 grade five students came here on Wednesday from Truida Kestell school in central Bethlehem in the Free State.
It's an interesting school, with a history that dates back to just after the Anglo-Boer war in the early 1900s. It's also a school with its eye on the future, as it was one of the first whites-only schools in the province to open up admission to children of all races while apartheid was still intact, prior to the arrival of democracy in 1994. For more information on the school, go to http://www.truidakestell.co.za/eng/index.htm
Grade five manager and mathematics teacher Hantie Maree said, ''we have come to Cape Town every year for three years, and every year we do a graph on the children's favourite activities from the questionnaire, and every year, the MTN Sciencentre ends up the most popular of the activities we do, I promise you.''
''I've already made a tally table and the MTN Sciencentre has ended up at the top again,'' Mrs Maree said on October 9. ''The children just simply love it, I think because it's so very much hands on. We go to the Cango caves, Robben Island, World of Birds in Hout Bay, the museums, the aquarium, we do a train drive down the coast, it's a lot of stuff that we do. And for the past three years, MTN Sciencentre has come out tops.''
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