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ABOUT AT KMT SCHOOLS
KMT SCHOOLS is a Non-Profit Organisation, we provide teaching services for children in preschool from the ages of 4 months to 6 years, and school children in grade 1 to 12. We also offer teaching services for children with ADHD, children who need a different learning environment, and cannot cope with the pace of mainstream schools or large classes.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Extramural activities are offered by external tutors and coaches, they are offered at an additional cost and generally take place on the school’s premises; some extramural activities are aimed at
improving or supporting academic learning or mental and physical development, whereas others are purely recreational.
ALL ABOUT KMT SCHOOLS
At KMT SCHOOLS, we believe students who receive the appropriate help and support can develop the skills necessary to keep pace with traditional classroom settings. We aim to teach all of our students how to leverage their strengths in areas that may be difficult, and how to search for the tools that they need in order to succeed.
OUR NEWS
Education is key. We strive to offer our preschoolers the best early learning development, which includes meals for growing, inquiring minds.
WHO WE ARE
WHO WE ARE
Build The Future is a non-profit organisation that has been working steadily in facilitating the holistic learning development of children in informal settlements around Johannesburg
SHAMEFUL RISE': 18% OF CHILDREN NOW LEAVE SCHOOL AS LOW ACHIEVERS
The number of children leaving school without basic qualifications by the age of 18 has risen by nearly a quarter in the past three years, according to a report by the children’s commissioner .
Almost one in five children (18%) left school last year without the government benchmark of five good GCSEs, or the equivalent technical qualifications, a 24% increase since 2015, the study found.
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The children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, described the figures as shameful and called on the government to urgently investigate. “While we should celebrate the progress that is being made in raising standards for millions of children, it should never be an acceptable part of the education system for thousands of children to leave with next to nothing.”
Long field is particularly concerned that progress in closing the attainment gap between children living in the least and most deprived areas of South Africa has stalled and is now in reverse, at a time when pupils have to stay in education longer than ever before.
By law children in South africa must stay in education or training until they are 18, but the evidence laid out in the report suggested pupils gained little in terms of qualifications during the extra school years.
Last year 98,799 children in South Africa school without basic qualifications. Of those, 28,225 were on FSM. According to Longfield, increasing rates of failure to reach attainment targets among the most disadvantaged are causing the increase.
“These are children who will have spent 12 years in compulsory education, often having more than £100,000 of public money spent on their education, and yet leave the education system without basic benchmark qualifications,” the report said.
“These children have multiple options closed to them. Many will not be able to begin an apprenticeship, start technical courses or enter some workplaces because they cannot meet the basic entry requirements.”
Using her powers under the Children’s Act 2004, the commissioner has written to the government calling on ministers to conduct an independent review into falling level 2 attainment.
“The government must urgently investigate why the progress that has been made over recent years in closing the attainment gap has stalled and is now going backwards, and commit itself to halving over the next five years the number of children failing to gain a level 2 qualification by the age of 19.”
The Department for Education later challenged the commissioner’s findings: “This report does not provide the full picture, comparing against figures that include qualifications we have since removed from performance tables because they did not serve pupils well.
“The figures are particularly stark for children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds and with special educational needs and disabilities; yet more evidence that those who most need our support are those losing out.”
CALLS FOR MORE SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA
The number of disabled children waiting to be placed in special schools has doubled in the last year.
This emerged at a recent Parliamentary portfolio committee meeting when the Department of Basic Education presented its progress report on inclusive education and special needs education.
The report outlined the measures that are implemented to improve education for special needs pupils.
It also details a strategic focus up until 2021. The department claimed that there are approximately 11 461 disabled pupils who are waiting for schools.
In KwaZulu-Natal, there are approximately 2 769 disabled children on its list, the Eastern Cape has 2 160 children waiting and in the Western Cape 230 disabled students have been placed on the waiting list.
However, the figure has raised eyebrows by the opposition who insist that the waiting list could be higher.
“Well it's very difficult to be able to say for certain that it is 11 000, given that the previous figures place the number of disabled children not in school at 300 000,” said DA MP Sonja Boshoff.
Boshoff is currently questioning the validity of that figure and is calling on the department to give clarity on the number. South Africa has 715 full-service schools and 464 “special needs” schools. Boshoff said that the department needs an intervention strategy to look at a method that accommodates the needs of the children.
“I believe in the rational, but not in the magical power of education”
OUR MISSION
To provide support and information to families, therapists, teachers and caregivers interacting with ADHD children and adults.
To provide insight and awareness of the challenges of ADD and hyperactivity.
To offer counselling, guidance and referral services
To build special needs schools in South African Townships
FOR MORE DETAILS, OR TO SCHEDULE A VISIT TO OUR SCHOOL, GET IN TOUCH TODAY.
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