{"id":47224,"date":"2024-01-30T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/seven-steps-academy-for-the-deaf-in-district-six-maintains-its-100-pass-rate-20240130\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:06:52","slug":"seven-steps-academy-for-the-deaf-in-district-six-maintains-its-100-pass-rate-20240130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/seven-steps-academy-for-the-deaf-in-district-six-maintains-its-100-pass-rate-20240130\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Steps Academy for the Deaf in District Six  maintains its 100% pass rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Seven Steps Academy for the Deaf in District Six managed to retain its 100% pass rate in the National Senior Certificate results released last week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For more than 17 years the school has maintained this achievement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The school had seven matriculants in 2023, five of them bachelor\u2019s passes and two diploma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven Steps Academy for the Deaf in District Six managed to retain its 100% pass rate in the National Senior Certificate results released last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than 17 years the school has maintained this achievement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee-Ann Kannemeyer, outgoing principal, said the school had seven matriculants in 2023, five of them bachelor\u2019s passes and two diploma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am exceedingly proud. Our learners are deaf and walk a long, hard road to get to matric. I have been at the school for 17 years and we always had a 100% pass rate. I am proud of the class of 2023, many children with their fair share of challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school is an English-medium, auditory-verbal (oral) school that caters for deaf learners from Grade R to Grade 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kannemeyer said the top learner, NAME(?), scored three distinctions and achieved a 76% aggregate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Top learner pending comment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe came to us in Grade 4 without speaking one word of English. He lost his hearing and received a cochlear implant. Now he is off to Stellenbosch University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said teaching and learning can often be challenging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen these learners matriculate we celebrate from pre-Grade R up, because often the children have been at the school since then. They arrive with little-to-no language because of their hearing loss and they learn to speak slowly in the bottom grade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy the time they get to high school they are doing the normal CAS curriculum. We adapt the curriculum up to Grade 6 to give them as much vocabulary as possible. But from Grade 7 it\u2019s the normal CAS curriculum. And they write the normal CAS exam as every other child at school does.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Kannemeyer the school\u2019s success is due to \u201chard work\u201d from both learners and teachers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe teachers put in a lot of extra time and effort. Being hearing-impaired our learners have to put in the extra effort because they can\u2019t take any language or critical thinking for granted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything has to be taught to them. We learn stuff through residual hearing which our children don\u2019t have. 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