Our Story
Vision Afrika Primary School is a private school in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch.
Vision Afrika Primary School is a community’s courageous response to a crisis. In 2015, the government schools in Kayamandi could not accommodate many new learners, including learners from the Vision Afrika preschool programme. More than 800 children from Kayamandi must attend schools in other parts of the district. Encouraged by the Western Cape Education Department, Vision Afrika registered and opened a new school within weeks to assist parents who were anxious about a long daily journey to school for young children.
The school offers a creche and classes from Grade RR to Grade 3 with an average class size of 26. Our teachers value academic excellence and strongly focus on the development of literacy and numeracy skills. Vision Afrika follows the CAPS curriculum. Classes are offered in English and isiXhosa.
Teachers have space to innovate. They stimulate learners, within a holistic approach of whole-person development, to learn by doing. This learning environment is grounded in trust, respect and active parent and community involvement. We strive for an encouraging environment where children can explore and grow.
Our Approach
Vision
To create a fair chance for every learner to flourish.
Mission
To blend proven and progressive education strategies. We endow our learners with academic grounding and practical social skills to succeed in school. And we support them to shape a personal story of success.
Values
We aim to inspire.
We encourage a sense of personal responsibility.
We value the innate potential of staff and learners.
We value the varied expressions of human curiosity.
We assume people generally want to do what is right.
Our School
In the well-equipped and colourful classrooms of the crèche, children from 2 to 5 years old are stimulated in their growth and development and prepared for school. The qualified crèche teachers follow the National Early Learning and Development Standards (NELDS). The crèche's 70 learners are grouped according to age to allow them to learn and play with others of their own age.
Vision Afrika has 104 primary school learners in grade R through to Grade 3. The number of learners allows for small classes of about 26 children, affording the learners the benefit of individual attention. While following the CAPS curriculum, Vision Afrika focuses also on building strong literacy and numeracy skills in the early years.
Across grades, computer literacy is emphasized both as a vital skill and as a method of teaching and learning. The learners are introduced to computers and tablets in the crèche, which then become important learning tools in the primary school. Children not only become computer literate, but also use the technology to learn and practise essential literacy, numeracy and mathematics skills using the latest software designed for this purpose.
The school has an extended teaching day that allows for classes given in English in the morning to be reiterated in isiXhosa in the afternoons to ensure learners' comprehension of the lessons. Nutritious meals are thus prepared on site and provided to all learners daily.
Take a look inside our school!
Learn more about Vision Afrika Primary School and meet some of the people involved. Watch this short video produced by the parent body.
