A Special, Beautiful, Unique Country

– By Zac Bowyer South Africa is a special, beautiful, unique country. It is also broken, divided and riddled with inequality. Gamechanger’s school (shown in the video below) transforms this division and brokenness. It offers education that is diverse. Children from a range of cultures, incomes, races, countries and religions go to the school. It…

Our visit to Ballito Airfield

The Juniors visited Ballito Airfield this week as part of their learning on transport and in their words “had a blast!”. They were excited to share their knowledge and many questions/wonderings with Anthony. We had a tour of the hanger, the microlights, planes and even the office filled with maps, log books and model planes.…

The Land Where We Learn How to Live Together.

Let’s Bring Reconciliation to Life, through Quality, Diverse and Affordable Education – together! Soul Action South Africa (SA Acc.) Soul Action South Africa (UK Acc.) Bank: Standard BankAcc. Number: 410196452Branch: Windermere, KZN.Branch Code: 042726SWIFT Code: SBZAZAJJ Bank: The Cooperative Bank,Skelmersdale. WM8 6WTSort Code: 089299Acc. Number: 6538158600IBAN: GB71CPBK08929965381586BIC/SWIFT Code: CPBKGB22 An Intercultural Community. We’re excited about…

Junior Phase: Learning about Angles

Last week in the Juniors we learnt about different types of angles. We located right angles, acute and obtuse angles in our school environment before then discussing and sharing what we noticed about a protractor. Children noticed and shared the following: We then learnt how to use a protractor to measure angles. We finished the…

Foundation Phase: Exploration of Colours

Last week one of the children in Foundation Phase suggested they could express their thoughts on ‘being proud’ by creating a colour. The rest of the group immediately wanted to share what their colour would be. So, this week the children have each created a colour and named it. On Friday, they each stood up…

Cottonlands: A Quintile 3* Public School

Quintile 1: Represents the poorest 20% of schools, located in rural areas or informal settlements with limited resources. Quintile 2: Covers the second-poorest 20% of schools, with slightly better resources than Quintile 1, but still facing challenges. *Quintile 3: The middle 20% of schools with a greater variation in resources and infrastructure. Quintile 4: The second-wealthiest 20% of schools…