FLIPPING BOOK CHRONICLE 2024

MICHAELHOUSE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

THE MCPT MISSION The Michaelhouse outreach programme is operated by the Michaelhouse Community Partnership Trust, a registered public benefits organization, focused on improving the functionality and optimizing the effectiveness of our 16 community schools as places of learning, with special attention on leadership development, teaching capacity and training, infrastructure maintenance and education technology. ichaelhouse is ranked in the top 100 schools globally and has been an acknowledged centre of education excellence for 125 years. Within 20km of the school there are 16 under-resourced rural state schools in communities where unemployment and poverty are a daily reality. Consistent with the Michaelhouse core values of integrity, humility, compassion, courage and service the MCPT, a registered non profit organization (NPO 015292), has been established as an outreach programme to add value to these 16 footprint schools, with the singular focus being to improve their functionality as places of learning and add value to the broader Midlands community. Annually each school is evaluated and benchmarked to ensure that improvements occur in respect of instructional, infrastructural and leadership functionality. A dedicated team of two full-time staff and two interns, supported by a committee of trustees and committed volunteers, oversee ten core projects to achieve this. Core to this outreach programme is partnering with communities where the schools are located, collaborating with school principals, heads of departments, teachers and Department of Education circuit managers in the Lion’s River and Mpofana circuits. Where building, plumbing and electrical work is required, local community suppliers are used as far as possible, so the money stays in the community; this significantly enhances the notion of schools being at the centre of the community. An additional M

component is that each of the ten Houses at Michaelhouse will adopt a school to enable boys to do community service where it will add value. In the past year R5 million in donor funding was raised. The target this year is R8 million. By way of background, of the 30 000 schools in South Africa, 5% are considered world-class institutions, 15% functional as places of learning, and 80% dysfunctional as places of learning. This does not necessarily mean they are failing, but it does mean they are under-resourced. There are 16 such schools on Michaelhouse’s doorstep. IMPACT Over the past eight years (see model below) we have grown our impact and now concentrate on seven focus areas. • Twenty-six Eduhelpers deployed. (Eduhelpers are teaching graduates employed as interns on a basic stipend, with a view to providing them with full employment as teachers.) • Infrastructure improvement. • Ten funded projects in the footprint schools (some still to be funded), each of which has a dedicated project champion. • Improved community service by Michaelhouse boys, with each House adopting a school. • Three annual collective community events focusing on sport, art and music. The report below details how this impact has improved our 16 footprint schools as functional places of learning. • Sixteen schools in our footprint. • Leadership training in 24 schools.

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Boys’ service St Raphael’s Library Bus

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Boys’ service St Raphael’s

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Boys’ service St Raphael’s

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Boys’ service St Raphael’s

Sports Tournament

Sports tournaments Arts & culture festival

Sports Tournament

2024

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Boys’ service 7 projects St Raphael’s

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Boys’ service 10 projects St Raphael’s

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Boys’ service 10 projects St Raphael’s

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Boys’ service 10 projects St Raphael’s

Sports tournaments Arts & culture festival

Sports tournaments Arts & culture festival

Sports tournaments Arts & culture festival

Eduvelopment

Career guidance

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