New computers for EL primary school
ON THE last day of the school year the PageGroup gave New Generation Primary School their first computers to be used by pupils in a computer lab.
The underprivileged school in Egoli Township received five refurbished computers, preloaded with Windows 7, and a printer to the delight of outgoing principal, Cecil Peters, and the rest of the staff at the school.
“This [mini computer lab] will help the learners tremendously. “We are really grateful that our learners will be able to do projects [in the new computer room] and become computer literate. For many it will be the first time in front of a computer, so they will learn,” Peters said.
General manager of the PageGroup in East London, Heinrich Fuls, said computers was an integral part of people’s lives these days and hoped that their gesture would be of help to pupils.
“These computers is to see that [pupils] from Grade 1 and 2 can work on a computer so that they’re not lost when they get to high school and are doing CAT [Computer Applications Technology]. But not only that, computers today are part of life; wherever you work, computers are used and it will be to their benefit if they know how to work it [computer],” Fuls said.
School governing body (SGB) chairman, Sipho Mpengu, thanked the PageGroup on behalf of the pupils and the staff. “I want to thank you for equipping the kids for the future, [because] technology is moving forward [and this will ensure that New Generation pupils are not left behind]. The parents are going to be very happy when the news reaches them,” Mpengu said.
Peters said that the computer lab was exclusively for use by the school’s pupils.
It was a fitting farewell to Peters as the computer donation came on his last day as principal of the school.