St Matthews learners educated on safety
All the stakeholders that were invited prepared informative presentations to help educate the scholars.
On August 04, St Matthews Private Primary School hosted a Life Orientation for learners in order to be educated about the importance of safety.
Stakeholders such as the JMPD, Bikers, Khulisisizwe, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Livelyhood Horizons were also invited to come and engage with the scholars.
According to the JMPD officer, Georgina Nxumalo, it is their responsibility to visit different schools and have safe talks with the learners so as to limit the danger that the learners come across in their everyday activities at schools.
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“Through this initiative we are aiming at informing the learners about the danger that bullying, drugs and theft may pose to them. Lately we have been noticing bad behaviour from a lot of scholars in different school, so with this programme we want to help limit that” said Nxumalo.
Nxumalo added that not so long ago there was an accident where a learner was found with a hookah pen therefore the incident has made the JMPD to take action by trying to work with the teachers in order to reprimand learners from using any types of drugs.
All the stakeholders that were invited prepared informative presentations to help educate the scholars. Recovering drug addicts from Livelyhood Horizons were also given a platform to talk about their drug experience, how badly drugs affected them and what negative impact did drugs bring to their lives.
“It is very important to educate and to teach children about the importance of emergency medical services.
“The most important thing that we tried to teach the learners today is how to effectively use the medical services without abusing it,” said an EMS official, Segale Kgomo.
Scholars were given an opportunity to engage with all the representatives from different stakeholders and ask them any question of their choice.
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“Personally, I’m happy and ecstatic because lately we have been experiencing bullying and theft at school. So I think children will have a bit of discipline if they see all the people we have invited to come to and talk to them,” said a St Matthews educator, Palesa Mothibedi.
