S J VAN DER MERWE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
School in Polokwane

We aim to give every student in our care the very best possible education in order to prepare them for life beyond school. The school since 2008 been identified as a beneficiary of Epoch and optima Trust were in every year the school receive a certain amount of money from the Trust to address Math challenges and also improve the quality of results in Mathematics and Physical science. The idea behind the Math Centre as a project is to cap challenges related to no availability of educators at school due to number of reasons like educators attending workshops, educators going on authorized leaves etc. The purpose thereof is to have ICT around for any other reason, someone from the Math Centre can monitor the delivery of the teacher’s lesson in the classroom were the teacher is absent in a form of either live broadcast of similar lessons in another class by another teacher or audio tapes of the educator concerned for that lesson or any video of the same lesson as maybe instructed by the subject teacher. Therefore, this project requires a system that will allow teaching and learning to go on even in the absence of the teacher herself/himself. Fulltime Handyman to assist in plumbing and electricity maintenance. Providing Crime awareness to the learners at the school. The school was established in 1981 as a Technical High School with functional workshops and boarding facilities admitting mostly boy learners until in the 1990s where the school decided to introduce commerce stream that also ended up attracting also girl learners. The school is now also a technical full service school which means that all learners are admitted at the school.