We’re turning 20! We are celebrating our 20-year anniversary this year, a significant milestone in our school’s history. We have had the pleasure of enjoying so many wonderful memories with staff, students, alumni, donors and friends since our school was established in 2001. We will be commemorating the occasion with a special video tribute to 20 years of Christel House SA - but we need your help.

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We recently employed 28 additional tutors to assist our students in both our Junior and High School with remedial teaching until the end of 2021. Given the many disruptions to the academic calendar because of COVID-19, the goal is to make up for the learning loss that took place and to focus specifically on subjects that require additional attention like Mathematics and Science.

“Younger children have suffered the most significant learning loss during 2020 due to the pandemic. We are grateful for the opportunity to accelerate learning through our high dosage tutor program. We have a highly motivated team of qualified tutors to work with small groups of learners daily and our tutors are following the Gap Curriculum programme, created by our teachers at the end of last year,” says Carol Kriel, Junior School Principal at Christel House SA.

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Christel House South Africa has officially launched coding as a compulsory subject from Grades 1 to 7. In line with global technology trends, the school acknowledges that coding will become a basic literacy requirement in the digital age and that understanding the fundamentals of technology will be essential to securing a job in the future. The program is proudly supported by Dell Technologies, a long-standing information communications technology (ICT) partner of the school.

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The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard on our nation’s economy as many lost their jobs including some of our parents. As a result of this, our Social Services team members ran a ‘Create your CV’ workshop for Christel House South Africa parents. Over the past two months, our Junior School parents attended the workshop every Thursday and were awarded with points that went towards our Sibenza Sonke parent volunteering program.

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As part of our widening impact program with local schools and communities, we welcomed 26 residents from Freedom Park to our school for our very first Introductory Computer Skills Workshop. The workshop consists of four sessions, after which participants will have the ability to update and attach their CVs to an email and apply for potential jobs. The previous workshop, ‘Building my Career Workshop’, assisted Freedom Park residents in creating their own CV, which included guidance from our staff on how to go about applying, preparing, and keeping a job. The Computer Skills Workshop took a step further compared to the previous one and saw residents learning basic computer skills, from using Microsoft Office and Outlook, to using Google and improving their typing abilities.

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