Holiday camp brings excitement to Emshukantambo Secondary School
The aim was to motivate learners and show them that any dream can turn into a reality once you put your mind and heart into it.
Emshukantambo Secondary School in partnership with the Kasi Youth Program hosted a winter holiday camp for Grade 8 learners to help keep them busy during these long winter school holidays.
During the camp, learners participated in activities such as dancing, debating, slogan reciting and motivational talks.
The aim was to motivate learners and show them that any dream can turn into a reality once you put your mind and heart into it.
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It was also to give the learners hope and to show them that their backgrounds should not define them.
Speakers also touched base on goal setting and getting priorities straight.
Speaking to Urban News, Thabo Michael Sibiya also known as Crème Soda who is a Production Process Controller at Coca-Cola and a motivational speaker said, “I’m actually on a mission to visit 100 schools and I’m coming to this school for the second time because I saw the gap in township schools.
“The life they live at home is the life they bring to schools such as smoking and all the wrong things. I decided to step in and try to speak to the learners and fortunate enough other people were willing to help.”
The learners were engaged with a few other speakers who have the same goal of imparting information to the Grade 8 learners like Ntando Makwela a young author of the book titled The Dynamic Kid.
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“It’s great that the school got all the learners together. They seem very eager to learn and improve themselves and are willing to do anything to succeed in their school endeavours,” said Makwela.
This also left the English teacher and Departmental Head, Pule Hlahane with joy.
“The camp has been extremely well and amazing with the activities learners have been engaging in such as dancing, singing, slogan reciting, and today’s motivational speakers were the cherry on top,” said Hlahane.
“The reason we decided to come up with this is that we realised that no one is looking after the children during these holidays and this had to be something to keep them away from wrong things like substance abuse, sex, and the other things.”
