FLIPPING BOOK CHRONICLE 2024

The national lockdown in early 2020, including the closure of schools, meant that children were left without contact teaching. This negatively affected the matric pass rates in most of our footprint schools. Dabulamanzi, Emyezaneni, Shea O’Connor and Injoloba, in particular, were casualties. In 2021 Asithuthuke and Jabula showed resilience with improved pass rates. Jabula had lost their principal, Mr Mabaso, in September 2020 and consequently lost momentum, which was evident in the 2020 results. In 2021 Mr Mnikathi, a previous student at Asithuthuke, was appointed principal; he implemented a vigorous revision programme which resulted in a 95 percent pass rate.

workshops held by Steuart Pennington (East 1968) to increase motivation and contact with Grade 12 learners in particular during lockdown. Over the last four years Steuart has conducted one on-one interviews with the Grade 12 matrics to ascertain what they felt were appropriate revision requirements. Assistance was also received from the Michaelhouse interns, with extra classes for Life Sciences and Business Studies. In 2023 we encouraged our six secondary schools to develop their own revision programmes with assistance from the MCPT when requested. Our major challenge this year was loadshedding and adequate lighting in the afternoons and evenings. Shea O’Connor received a donation from their twin school St Peter’s that enabled the installation of inverters and 20 solar panels to ensure they were not solely dependent on Eskom for electricity. Asithuthuke was able to install an inverter as a result of a

The commendable performance of Asithuthuke (the Michaelhouse Farm School) can be attributed to the teachers’

2024 MATRIC RESULTS FOOTPRINT HIGH SCHOOLS

Asithuthuke

Dabulamanzi

Emyezaneni

Jabula

Shea O’Connor

Injoloba

MATRIC RESULTS: COMPARATIVE GRAPH (2018-2024) FOOTPRINT HIGH SCHOOLS

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

2020 2021 2022 2023 2019 2018 2024

PERCEN TAGE

87, 5

97, 8

0

0

0

0

70 ,6

91 ,7

66 ,7

39 ,3

36 ,3

72 ,7

37 ,5

52 ,6

53 ,3

83 ,3

92 ,3

23 ,9

79 ,4

75 ,6

88 ,4

64 ,6

87 ,5

47 ,4

95 ,2

78 ,4

66 ,1

95 ,6

82 ,6

92

97

58

84

82

70

64

87

87

92

94

100

100

Asithuthuke

Dabulamanzi

Emyezaneni

Jabula

Shea O’Connor

Injoloba

with a higher number of Bachelor’s and Diploma passes being achieved. We would especially like to commend Injoloba, Shea O’Connor and Emyezaneni for the significant improvement in their pass rates. In 2024 our footprint schools again showed an improvement in their achievements. Shea O’Connor bagged a 100 percent pass rate for the second consecutive year. Injoloba and Jabula each increased their pass rates by 2 percentage points. Dabulamanzi has faced many challenges over the past couple of years and this has been evident in the decline of its matrics’ marks. The MCPT will work on a turnaround plan for this school.

€3 000 donation organized by the Farfield boys, together with extra blankets and 30 solar-powered night lamps for the matrics.

At Jabula the Grade 12 Maths and Physics learners attended afternoon revision classes on Mondays and Wednesdays. These were run by a very committed Michaelhouse mathematics intern, Mr Sinethemba Mabeleka. He went on to open his classes to all matrics living in the area, and added classes on Sundays. Learners from Injoloba, Howick West Secondary, Shea O’Connor and Jabula attended the classes.

The quality of matric passes in 2023 improved significantly,

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