\u201cJuffrou\u201d Virginia Vraagom (57) werk al vir vier dekades by Steenberg\u2019s Cove Prim\u00ear in St. Helenabaai en is sedert 2010 die skoolhoof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het in 1978 by die skool begin werk nadat sy by die Zonnebloem Kollege in Woodstock was. Sy het deeltyds haar kwalifikasie aan die Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) verwerf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die skool se beheerliggaam het haar by \u2019n onlangse geleentheid met \u2019n geskenk en sertifikaat van erkenning vir haar 40 jaar diens by die skool verras. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het d\u00edt glad nie verwag nie,\u201d het sy Maandag aan Weslander<\/span> ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vraagom, \u2019n boorling van Steenberg\u2019s Cove, s\u00ea sy gee nou skool vir die kleinkinders van sommige van die leerders wat in die 1970\u2019s in haar klas was. \u201cDit voel regtig soos gister,\u201d erken sy. Haar eerste liefde in die lewe is die onderwys en natuurlik die skool se leerders, maar as sy ooit \u2019n ander beroep moes kies, sou sy \u2019n sjef wou word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy reken kook en bak is in haar bloed. Haar oorlede ma en pa was professionele kokke en haar suster Denise Vraagom kook ook graag. Sy is by die skool se voedings\u00adprogram betrokke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Haar gunsteling\u00addis om te maak is \u2019n geurige kreef\u00adkerrie en sy s\u00ea haar \u201cVigi Special\u201d<\/i> is ook nogal gewild. Dit is \u2019n poeding wat na haar vernoem is en wat op die stoof gemaak word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dit is vir haar baie belangrik dat kinders respek en dissipline geleer word en sy voel Steenberg\u2019s Cove se leerders beskik oor hierdie waardes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDis alles te danke aan die goeie span onderwysers wat ek het.\u201d Sy vertel met trots van \u2019n gevoel van liefde en omgee by die skool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSelfs mense wat die eerste keer hier instap, praat daarvan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vraagom woon deesdae in Laingville en dis vir haar al te lekker as sy smiddae n\u00e1 skool voor haar huis stilhou en die straat se kinders kom met ope arms na haar toe aangehardloop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk het nie kinders van my eie nie, maar aanvaar die kinders van die gemeenskap almal as my eie.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cJuffrou\u201d Virginia Vraagom (57) werk al vir vier dekades by Steenberg\u2019s Cove Prim\u00ear in St. Helenabaai en is sedert 2010 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