News from Dinoto June 2009: June examination, Impala funds and B-Ball

June examination

As the principal has mentioned in his greetings for this blog, Dinoto is in the examination period. This means every day some examens are written. For the grade 12 it is of course more serious because the June examination is something like a pre-test for their final exammination and the examination is already counting (to a very small percentage) for their matric. But of course all the learners are excited about the examen. The examination will go on till the school's closing day at 26 June.

This means you can see everywhere at Dinoto at the moment hard-working students who are studying for their tests:






And when they are not learning they are having their examens. For this they are grouped together at different venues at Dinoto. E.g. the classroom of Mr Sikhosana and me is now "occupied" by some learners from grade 10 and 11:



So "Good Luck" to all Dinoto pupils!



Impala funds

Impala Platinum is a big entreprise in South Africa. Check their homepage for more information. And this company works together with Dinoto. They were givining funds to Dinoto to improve the scientific laboratories. The school is very happy about this and very proud of it. So Dinoto was very glad that the responsible people from Impala were coming to visiting Dinoto. So the school got the chance to say: Thank you! The Educators presented the new equipment which was bought thanks to the Impala funds. So Mam Nyakane presented the Smart Board:



You do not know what is a Smart Board? Then check their homepage. In short: The Smart Board allows innovative teaching. The teaching board becomes an interactive platform where the pupils can discover together with the educators their subject from a new perspective.

Beside this hightech-teaching-equipment it was also - thanks to Impala - possible to supply the laboratories with essential classical teaching-material. For example Mam Nyakane shew the molecule model to the present representatives from Impala, the district and the municipality:




Also electric motors and microscopes were bought.

Finally the school said thank you to Impala by a wonderful speech from Duduzile Dlamini (Grade 12), a very talented learner who just interrupted her writting of her June exmanen for ten minutes to hold the speech:




So in the end the whole event was a big success. And the educators were very happy that everything went well as this lovely picture shows:



Basketball-game

Last but (for me) not least the Dinoto Basketball team played a game in Kwa Thema, a township near Springs. It was our first real game. This means it was not a streetball game(3 vs. 3) as the last time but a real 5 against 5 game with four quaters with 15 minutes. And it was great fun! We are getting better and better. Unfortunately we are stopping training at the moment due to the examination. Anyway our game was nice. We are playing like Bafana Bafana (the South African soccer team): very ambitous but always loosing!
But the same as Bafana Bafana we try to improve!



With these impressions I want to close this news-post for today and want to motivate all of you to post you experiences with Dinoto.

Best greetings

Sibusiso aka Jan