Over 600 learners taught in tents
After missing two weeks of school due to the lack of spaces at schools in Rundu, the over 600 learners yesterday have now secured placement at the Rundu Project Secondary School where teaching and learning takes place in tents.
Last week Namibian Sun reported about how hundreds of learners together with their parents desperately assembled at the Rundu education district office demanding placement since they were being turned away from schools due to lack of spaces.
Yesterday this reporter visited the temporary solution which is the erection of 15 tents at the Rundu Trade Fair Centre at which the over 600 learners and 14 teachers call a school.
The school is known for now as the Rundu Project Secondary School and offers Grade 8 up to Grade 10.
For those who have seen how refugee camps are depicted in movies, that’s the way the Rundu Project Secondary School looks like from a distance.
Talking to Namibian Sun on the establishment of the school, the school’s principal, Conrad Nyangana Hamunyera said that by yesterday they had enrolled over 600 learners.
According to Hamunyera the enrolment process continues as the school is meant to cater for about 1 000 learners.
Regarding the teaching and learning environment, Hamunyera said that the school has access to the basic services such as water, electricity and toilets.
In terms of the tents in which the learners are being taught, the desks are adequate but not the chairs.
This reporter observed how some learners were sitting on desks however Hamunyera said the regional council has promised to provide them with more chairs.
“The school started enrolling on Monday and we are continuing with the process,” he said.
“It is not the best set up for teaching and learning to take place in but this is just temporarily and we could not have waited for the construction of the school.”
The Kavango East Regional Council has put out a tender for the construction of the Rundu Project Secondary School.
Rundu has a challenge of overcrowded classrooms at schools which Namibian Sun has extensively reported on.
In 2019 this publication exposed how at one point 114 learners were being taught in the same class at Ndama Combined School.
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Last week Namibian Sun reported about how hundreds of learners together with their parents desperately assembled at the Rundu education district office demanding placement since they were being turned away from schools due to lack of spaces.
Yesterday this reporter visited the temporary solution which is the erection of 15 tents at the Rundu Trade Fair Centre at which the over 600 learners and 14 teachers call a school.
The school is known for now as the Rundu Project Secondary School and offers Grade 8 up to Grade 10.
For those who have seen how refugee camps are depicted in movies, that’s the way the Rundu Project Secondary School looks like from a distance.
Talking to Namibian Sun on the establishment of the school, the school’s principal, Conrad Nyangana Hamunyera said that by yesterday they had enrolled over 600 learners.
According to Hamunyera the enrolment process continues as the school is meant to cater for about 1 000 learners.
Regarding the teaching and learning environment, Hamunyera said that the school has access to the basic services such as water, electricity and toilets.
In terms of the tents in which the learners are being taught, the desks are adequate but not the chairs.
This reporter observed how some learners were sitting on desks however Hamunyera said the regional council has promised to provide them with more chairs.
“The school started enrolling on Monday and we are continuing with the process,” he said.
“It is not the best set up for teaching and learning to take place in but this is just temporarily and we could not have waited for the construction of the school.”
The Kavango East Regional Council has put out a tender for the construction of the Rundu Project Secondary School.
Rundu has a challenge of overcrowded classrooms at schools which Namibian Sun has extensively reported on.
In 2019 this publication exposed how at one point 114 learners were being taught in the same class at Ndama Combined School.
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