2012 VRL-kamp: vlotbou

Wise words: Tekkie Matrics 2020 ...

Kamohelo Hoshoko

Enjoy your youth ...

Reach for the sky ...

HeyMath and HeyScience Support for Learners

HeyMath offer their learner support material free of charge until 30 Sep 2020. It is available for natural and physical sciences (8-12) and mathematics (R-12).

Click here to read the Director-General's letter with complete details.

Click here for their website.

Re-opening of schools during Covid-19 period: Useful documents

Aiming at the re-opening of schools, the following documents provide valuable information:

Free State Circular MG7 of 2020 Amended

Free State Circular MG7 of 2020 Update and school readiness

DBE Document: Standard operating procedure for
Covid-19

Flashback Friday: 2012 VRL-kamp: wateraktiwiteite deel 1

Back to School: Grade 12

Yesterday it was announced that grade 12 learners will be back in school on 1 June.

SABSNews published nice info-graphics in connection with this.

Graad 12's

Click HERE for more information
and to go to the different subjects

Don't stop ...

Online resources for learning at home

Click HERE!

Click HERE!

Studiemetodes om jou te help

Study methods 

Waardevolle studiemetodes HIER.

Reach for the sky

Facebook Live Chat on Facebook

The first Physical Sciences Facebook Live Chat will DV take place on Saturday, 16 May 2020. Collision theory, chemical equilibrium and acids and bases are in store for you and will be done by Mrs Busi Manchu from 12:00.

(C) Facebook Group: IBP - Internet Broadcast Project

Join the Facebook group called IBP - Internet Broadcast Project to see videos (shown before the live chats) and the live chats themselves.

12:00 - Collision theory

15:00 - Chemical equilibrium

18:00 - Acids and bases

The online tournament ...

The Clash Of The Debaters (Online) tournament took place on the 1st - 4th of May 2020.

The tournament had more than 120 participants and more than 24 teams from all over the nation including international teams from Bermuda and Zimbabwe!! The online tournament was a success, leaving most inexperienced debaters with some knowledge and experience of what a debate tournament is.

We had our JCC Mayor, Miss Franchesca May as the Best adjudicator for 2020. She ranked 1st in the Top 10 adjudicators, with one of our HTS/Unitas teams breaking to Quarter finals. 

We thank all speakers who participated in this tournament, adjudicators and organising committee members and mostly our SA coaches who gave us light on what to do and what not to do.

Lastly, a big thanks to Alex Manise as the Chairperson and Founder of The Clash Of The Debaters Tournament

Flashback Friday: 2020 - Grade 8 Orientation

Re-opening of schools

Things are slowly returning to normal. The following documents contain important information about this.

2020-05-14 Media statement: Minister Motshekga to convene a special CEM meeting to consider state of readiness of schools.

2020-05-12 LTA 1 of 2020 on curriculum management in view of Covid-19

2020-05-12 Joint statement by education unions

Diffucult?

New website of FSDoE with digital learning for teachers and office-based educators

Remote teaching and learning create incredible opportunities for effective learning and collaboration outside of the classroom. Our current situation, the national lockdown, has led to a loss of teaching and learning time and has brought on many challenges and uncertainties about the immediate and future status of learning.

The ELearning section of the Free State Department of Education has developed a beautiful website with a digital learning content pack for teachers and office-based educators to help strengthen remote teaching and learning practices.

It is aimed at developing your skills, learning and exploring new tools as you facilitate remote teaching and learning. This self-paced learning journey is divided into five modules as shown below.

The website address is https://fsdoeelearning.wixsite.com/e-teacher.

Wise words ...

Happy Mother's Day

MOTHER'S DAY

The world would be nothing without mothers to give it warmth and teach us how to love one another and live in harmony with others. Mothers deserve more than the world itself and mankind have to offer. More than gold and silver, because they have the hardest job in the world of making us who we are and creating a better generation than the previous one.

Mothers do more than we recognize and they have to be appreciated more. A mother is not the one who gives birth to a child, but the one who loves and cares for that child or any other child they meet.

Be a mother, and have a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY❤️

[Kgosana Moeketsi Matric 2019]

Mother's Day 2020

Mother's day ...

Mother's day!!

Who doesn't know Mother's day?

It's fine. I'll tell you about mother's day. Mother's day is a day that I love. A day that is celebrated to all mothers out there. To every single women who plays a part in making sure that a child is guided, happy, safe and taken care of. It's a day that is dedicated to all those women who would die to make sure that a child has eaten at night, irrespective whether it's their own or not. A woman. A leader. A wife. A life companion. A parent. A God sent.

I want to thank all those women that make sure that they offer their talents to help children everywhere and every-how they can ... I dedicate this day in appreciating all the women in my life, my teachers, my mentor, coaches and most of all, my single mother. The one woman that makes sure that I'm disciplined, I take responsibility and accountability for my actions, that makes sure that I have a meal every night. To all those women who does the same to other children as well, I thank you for all your struggles. We have to know where we come from, in order for us to know where we're going. We may not know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future.
We're forever indebted to you

[Alex Manise 9 May 2020]

Tekkies het 'n webwerf.

Klik HIER en gaan besoek die skool se webwerf.

Baie dankie, mnr. Johann van den Berg.

Why me ...?

Radio broadcast: Lesedi FM

The grade 12 learner support programmes of Lesedi FM will continue during May.

There will be three slots for technical sciences (starting today) and one slot for physical sciences from 16:15 to 16:45.

Click here for the schedule.

Wise words ...

Benefits of Taking Math Outside

Mathematics has a number of very useful benefits to our mind if we go into its study. It develops our reasoning, helps us to have analytical thinking, quickens our mind, generates practicality and also its use can be applied in the day to day.

The mathematics is present in our daily lives. For many students, maths is boring, abstract, lacking in creativity, complex and very difficult to understand, hence the typical expressions of “I am of letters” or “Numbers are not mine.” However, it is a subject that is part of the study of our children and as such should be an effort for compression, which usually involves constant practice.

Mathematics quickens our minds and helps us, in general, to deepen and think when we are faced with complex problems.

[Maths outside on a Saturday]

Kabelo Makhetha 

Save the Earth... it is the only planet with chocolate.
Read this amazing story HERE.

Foto's uit die argiewe

Klik HIER om so 'n draai in die
geskiedenis van HTS te maak.

Clash of the debaters (COTD) junior tournament

Clash of the debaters (COTD) junior tournament was established on the 24th of September 2019. Its mandate is to serve and develop speakers at grassroots level (hence it is called a junior tournament). 

The COTD Board consists of 3 people. Alex Manise (Chaiperson), Caryn Petersen (Deputy) both are from Welkom Free State and Elethu Della ( National coordinator) from Queenstown Eastern Cape province. 

As a board we decided to host COTD 2020 online due to the pandemic that occurred. Tournament started today and will end on Monday(finals). More than 24 teams have been registered. With more than 22 international speakers! Lastly, we have three of SA Coaches taking part as (Chief adjudicator, deputy chief adjudicator and Co- chief adjudicator) in our tournament. 

In conclusion more than 120 people are partaking in the tournament.

#COTDO(online)

#Let Us Clash

Click HERE for more information.

Die Tekkie-lockdown-veiligheidstaakmag

Mnre. Henk van Vuuren, Johann van den Berg en  Francois
Crauwcamp. 

Worker's Day!