LITTLE FLOWER LEARNING CENTRE
We want children at Little Flower Learning Centre to learn, to lead and to make a difference
History of the School
LEARNING THROUGH EXCELLENCE
- Little Flower Creche started way back in a garage in a house in the suburb called White Area in Sibasa in1990, with one child called Phillip Unarine, taught by Mrs Comfort Yeboah, affectionately known as Auntie Connie. By 1993, the children had grown to 15 young children and the creche was moved to the Life Bible College at the corner of Sibasa and University road, because the garage had become too small to comfortably accommodate the young learners, and secondly, the municipal authorities indicated that a creche could not be run from home due to the residential zoning rights. At this stage, Auntie Connie, employed Mrs Flora Hlungwani to assist her with the young pre-schoolers.In 1994 the creche had grown to 25 kids and Auntie Connie employed Mrs Johanna Singo to assist her and Madam Flora. In 1994, the creche relocated temporarily to Muledane in Block F, as the Bible Life College needed to use their space for their growing operations.In 1996, Little Flower moved once again to their current location at 293 in Block F with one classroom which hosted both pre-school and Grade 1, is approximately 100 students. From 1997, One classroom was built every year until school Grade 7. In 2000, Auntie Connie’s husband, Mr S.K. Yeboah retired from teaching at the University of Venda and joined the staff of Little Flower as the principal. Mr SK Yeboah and Auntie Connie both retired from active educational management duties in 2016 due to their advancing old ages. In 2016, Mrs Winifred Wright, their daughter with 26 years teaching experience in primary education assumed the mantle as the new principal, and the school has grown to a diverse population of 530 learners. Sadly, late in 2018, Mr SK Yeboah passed away due to illness.The new principal has articulated her vision of taking Little Flower to the next level of education delivery. She strongly believes that education is the greatest asset that any community and nation must invest in, to advance their economic dreams and progressive aspirations.
SCHOOL FEATURES
LEARNING THROUGH EXCELLENCE
To provide quality education in a safe and congenial environment, instilling in learners sound Christian and democratic principles, a sense of hard work and diligence that enables them to perform excellently at all subsequent levels of their education and emerge as useful and law-abiding citizens.
To achieve a high level of educational excellence and competence through the quality, efficient discharge of services and promote the acquisition of skills and knowledge by law-abiding citizens of this country to economically emancipate the society.
The curriculum we follow is based on the CAPS (Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement)system. This will ensure that no matter where the learners attend high school, they will be well equipped to continue without difficulty through high school. We work very closely with the Department of Education to ensure standards remain within what is expected from the Department of Education as a minimum.
Each child is unique and has different needs, so we keep our learner to teach ratio as low as possible to ensure that each learner gets the attention that they need to grow and develop in class.
- To positively instil in learners a sense of hard work, self-reliance, problem-solving attitude and a desire to responsibly and obediently serve God, their country and mankind.
- To equip learners with computer literacy in addition to the normal academic subjects as an enabler to cope with the current technological and scientific upheavals.
- To develop new teaching methods and strategies that serve to promote optional learning abilities of learners.
- To promote organized exchange programs with different non-profits, religious societies and other benevolent organizations and institutions with local, national and international learners.
- To make learners understand the various societal values and norms such as cleanliness, moral behaviour, discipline and etiquette, etc.
- To admit learners irrespective of background, religion, social, race, gender or age.
