Much of Bloemfontein seemed to be here in the first week of October. Well, to be specific, the students from Laerskool Universitas - better known as Tjokkies - were here. (For more on the school, check out http://www.tjokkies.fs.school.za/)
This is according to organiser Michael Grundling from World Sport Events, www.worldsporttours.com, which is based in Brackenfell, Cape Town, and organises sport and educational tours for schools.
Michael brought in 60 grade 7s on the last day in September from Bloemfontein, to spend six days touring Cape Town. On Wednesday they spent between two and three hours at the MTN Sciencentre. ''They said next time they would love to spend the whole day there. They enjoyed it absolutely. The deputy headmaster said they thoroughly enjoyed it,'' said Michael.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were a busy start to October 2007, with the Department of Science and Technology sponsoring students from the bilingual Afrikaans/English schools Spine Road High (seen above) with the help of teacher V.N Paramore and Rocklands High (see below), the latter led by Francois Nekosie, head of the science department.
Both are good schools in Mitchell's Plain. They were followed by a Wednesday visit from Modderdam High School (one of the schools trying to ban the instant messaging system known as Mxit because kids can't stop playing with their cellphones in class) in Bonteheuwel in Athlone.
Did you know that back in 1985, the premier of this province, Ebrahim Rassool, was a teacher at Spine Road High? So who knows - maybe the future premier of the Western Cape was walking in his or her school uniform through the doors of the MTN Sciencentre last Monday!
In the same time span, we were visited by the youngsters from Ebbtide Educare with teacher Estell Gordon, while Eloise Nefdt and Detlef Basel took the mobile science van to the Bellville Velodrome, the indoor sporting arena which can take 6000 people!
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