AAN die einde van die kort grondpad \u2013 vol slote en dongas \u2013 staan \u2019n helderblou gebou met \u2019n ewe parmantige groen dak.<\/p>\n
Dis omring deur reuseberge en lemoenboorde. Die vroegoggend-klanke van gelukkige kinders vul die lug. Slegs vir \u2019n oomblik word dit stil wanneer hul hande by die groot draadhek ontsmet word. Elke leerder dra \u2019n masker.<\/p>\n
\u00d3\u00f3k hier word streng by die COVID-19 pandemieregulasies gehou.<\/p>\n
Met skoon hande kom groet waarnemende skoolhoof Estelle Pietersen (55) van die De Mistkraal Prim\u00eare skool in Patensie vriendelik.<\/p>\n
Di\u00e9 doelgerigte vrou staan sedert Mei, verlede jaar, na die aftrede van jarelange hoof Martie de Beer, aan die stuur van sake by die plaasskool wat nagenoeg 180 graad R tot graad 7-leerders het.<\/p>\n
Pietersen is lief vir kinders en passievol oor die onderwys \u2013 al vir meer as drie dekades.<\/p>\n
Sy het in 1990 haar eerste tree as onderwyser by De Mistkraal gegee, nadat sy eers vir maat-skaplike werk studeer het \u2013 en is nie \u2019n dag spyt oor haar besluit om haar loopbaan in \u2019n ander rigting te stuur nie.<\/p>\n
In Februarie 2019 is sy as departementshoof aangestel. Die vorige departementshoof, wyle John Ohlson, het saam met haar in 1990 by die skool aangesluit.<\/p>\n
Pietersen, wat klas vir die graad 3-leerders gee en met sport help, se liefde vir onderwys l\u00ea diep in haar hart.<\/p>\n
\u201cToe ek die eerste dag \u2013 nog jonk en onervare \u2013 voor my eie klas staan, het ek geweet ek kon nie \u2019n beter beroep gekies het nie,\u201d s\u00ea sy. \u201cEk is waar ek moet wees. Dit is my kans om \u2019n verskil in kinders se lewens te maak.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wat geniet sy die meeste?<\/p>\n
\u201cDie nederigheid en dankbaarhied van die leerders, asook die geestelikheid van die groter gemeenskap \u2013 hulle is diep in die Gees gewortel,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n
\u201cDit is ook hier waar ek die Here ontmoet het. Ons erken die Here in alles wat ons doen \u2013 dit is Sy genade wat ons dra.\u201d<\/p>\n
Die skool wat in 1961 sy deure geopen het en sedert 1996 \u2019n graad R-klas het, spog met vyf permanente onderwysers, \u2018n opsigter, assistent-onderwyser en student-onderwyser. Daar is ook \u2019n vervoer-monitor en twee lede verantwoordelik vir die ontsmetting van leerders se hande.<\/p>\n
Uitblink-atlete sluit in Theoline George, Anisha Malgas, Joedin Slabbert en Shawn Prins.<\/p>\n
Op die netbalbaan hou Jadine Prins, Jennifer Dirk en Hillary Witbooi die skool se naam hoog, terwyl Renaldo Mandeka, Stefanus Saayers en Adrewlin Prins op die rugbyveld koning kraai.<\/p>\n
Pietersen se droom vir die skool?<\/p>\n
Sy glimlag: \u201cBenewens skryfbehoeftes en sportdrag vir leerders, glo ek dat ons binnekort na die nuwe skoolgebou in Patensie skuif.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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