Service Provider:
Delta Foundation

Description of project:

In partnership with the Delta Foundation and educational experts, this project aims to address needs in education set up by the Department of Education's Whole School Evaluation policy by addressing what constitutes a functional school.

This programme will be communicated through a video, together with comprehensive manuals and training workshops for school representatives and District Office officials, to indicate the characteristics of a functioning school for schools to work from in evaluating their schools.

The video, together with the manuals and training sessions, will be piloted in ten schools within the Eastern Cape and Western Cape. This will be followed by an official roll-out of the project in 50 schools in each of the five participating provinces.

The Shuttleworth Foundation's involvement:

The Shuttleworth Foundation is funding the copying and distribution of the video, the copying and distribution of the facilitator and learner manuals accompanying the video and the piloting of the video in selected venues. The Foundation will also fund the awareness/training workshops in the roll-out phase for school representatives and District Office officials, in selected provinces.

Aims and objectives:

• To educate school principals, teachers, learners and parents on the norms for effective school functioning.

Status (March 2004):

The pilot of the video has already taken place. Based on the comments and feedback recorded during the pilot phase, the video and the learning programme will be updated, before it is rolled out in June 2004.