Lessons Learned in Lockdown Limbo
Lockdown forced schools with the means to do so to switch to remote learning. As the local Church marks Catholic Schools Week, MARK POTTERTON sees promise for the future in that. As soon as it...
Category: Education
There’s a Lot to Do Before Schools Re-Open
Before schools can open for both learners and staff, a huge number of procedures needs to be in place, according to the deputy-director of the Catholic Institute of Education (CIE). Last week education ministers...
Can A School Be ‘Catholic’ Online?
By Dr Mark Potterton – The coronavirus has caused major disruption to education around the globe. UNESCO reported that nine out of ten of the world’s children were out of school at the start...
Love Is No Victory March
New start, fresh perspectives and yet some things stayed the same. As always, on school days a woman accompanies her children on a 3km uphill journey. I’ve watched them for five years: slim mother...
Porn: The Big Threat To Our Kids
Our children now have ready access to porn, and child pornography is on the rise, with half of South African learners having actively searched for sexual material. LOIS LAW looks at what that means,...
Thoughts On SA’s School Sexuality Curriculum
Marie-Anne Te Brake, Foundation for the Person & Family – Having been involved in sex education for the past 25 years in both Catholic and secular schools, I would like to comment on the...
CBC Pretoria Matrics of 1959!
Members of the CBC Pretoria matric class of 1959 had a 60-year reunion at the Pretoria Country Club. Of the “lads” who attended, one came from Canada and one from the United Kingdom. (Submitted by...
An Astonishing 4044 years of Service!
Catholic educators and non-teaching staff with more than 15 years’ service were presented with long-service awards by Bishop Vincent Mduduzi Zungu of Port Elizabeth in Makhanda Grahamstown. The 166 recipients had notched up a...
Holy Family College, Durban and the New Evangelisation
Several staff members at Holy Family College in Glenmore, Durban, completed the Catholic Schools Office’s course on St Paul and the New Evangelisation. Seen with Cardinal Wilfrid Napier are (from left) Luciana Pandarum, Julian...
Port Elizabeth Catholic Schools Commit To Strengthen Religious Formation
Catholic schools in Port Elizabeth have agreed to strengthen the religious formation of their learners, after the Catholic Board of Education of the Eastern Cape South met in the wake of the recent National...
Catholic Educators Seek New Vision
International assessments suggest 78% of South African children in Grade 4 cannot read for meaning in any language. This inability to read for meaning has dire implications for learning, deputy director of the Catholic...
Not Missing a Beat: Record School Attendance!
Zaine Perry has received a special achievement award for not missing a day of school in 14 years, an achievement his mother Michelle Perry, Southern Cross subscriptions administrator, says is due to his hard...
