MSC College Benoni Artfestival and The Art and Culture Event “ The Roots”
After a long time of preparation (in the spare time of the learners) some groups of the Art and Culture Department participated at the MSC College Benoni Art Festival. Several Schools around Daveyton were invited. The different groups performed in the field of Drama, Music , Poetry and Dance. It was an enjoyable day for all participants with a tough competition and after all Meyiponi member of the Drama group got the award as best female Actress and all groups were rewarded a participation certificate.
At the “The Roots” Art and Culture Event Dinoto’s groups won the overall award for their performances in the field of theatre (position 1) and poetry (position 2). Congratulations to all who participated and keep it up.
JET
JET Education Services set up a Gauteng Educational Development Trust (GEDT) to support schools in the field of Mathematics and Sciences. Dinoto was chosen to be one of the possible candidates and was invited for the presentation Session on Friday the 29. October in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Mr. White (Principal), Mr. Dinyake (HOD Mathematics) and Mr. Shongwe (HOD Sciences) presented Dinoto. Five out of these sixteen candidates will be supported by the Trust and we are hopefully looking forward to getting a positive response.
Career and future
Life Orientation Department decided to select the Grade 11 Learners to be part of the Program “Career and Future” sponsored by Nedbank. On several Sundays a Group of Learners went to Eastgate Mall to get Information about the following career paths: Entrepreneurship and construction, Tourism and hospitality, health, bank and finance, education, accounting and law.
Partnership with SANY
SANY is a Chinese company which produces for example cranes, bulldozers and pumps. They are now about to enter the South African market with an own factory. SANY and Dinoto agreed on a partnership which grants that SANY will give 5 Scholarships to learners from Grade 12 who will pass in Mechanics. During the holidays at the end of September SANY interviewed all grade 12 learners who do mechanics. The chosen learners will be trained in China for a few months. They are supposed to maintain and fix the special SANY machinery South Africa.]
UNICEF
The United Nations Children Fund set up a school based sports development program. Dinoto is one of five schools in Daveyton which are part of the program and it serves as center school. Once a week a coordinator is coming to Dinoto to engage learners in sport activities.
Examperiod
The exam period started on the 28. October. We wish all of our learners best of luck and success.
We hope our learners perform well, especially the Grade 12 learners and that we improve last year’s results.
