Kleinmond
Pikkewyntjies/Penguinkidz Pre-Primary
“Where creativity makes learning fun”
Tel/Fax: 028-271 5753/ Zaan Cilliers (Hoof) 0735728120
•• Dyna’s corner, Mooi Uitsig, Betty’s Bay •• PO Box 244 •• Kleinmond 7195 ••
GPS Co-ordinates: 34° 21’ 17.95”S 18° 52’ 49.91” E
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NPO: 003-390 Registration no.: C90189
PIKKEWYNTJIES PRE-SCHOOL DETAILS
Name of organization / Pikkewyntjies Pre-PrimaryPhysical address / Dyna’s Corner,Mooi Uitsig, Betty’ Bay, 7195
Postal address / PO Box 244, Kleinmond, 7195
Telephone number / (028) 271 5753
Cell number / 072 494 1310 (Project Manager: Theresa Els)
073 572 8120 (Principal: Zaan Cilliers)
Fax number / 086 512 0314
E-mail address /
Contact person / Zaan Cilliers
Organisation’s legal status / NPO 003-390 affiliated to Child Welfare SA: Kleinmond
Overall aims & objectives of the project / To provide quality pre-school education for local children
Key activities / -provide care and love for the children to develop their abilities
-stimulate the children physically, mentally and emotionally
Key activities / -build trust and co-operation between the school and the parent body in the interests of better parenting
Target group and target areas / Children between the ages of 2 to 6 years
HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL
Pikkewyntjies Pre-Primary was founded in September 2007 and is an independent community-based school serving impoverished families in Rooi Els, Pringle Bay as well as Betty’s Bay.
The inspiration behind the founding of the school was to provide an Early Childhood Development programme for children who were denied the opportunity. The benefits of ECD are well documented, especially the difference it makes when children go to school.
With the help of the Overstrand Municipality, who gave us free usage of the Community Hall, we started the school with six children. In 2009 the Overstrand Municipality built a new building for our school in Mooi Uitsig, a tinysuburb of Betty’s Bay and we moved into the new building in May 2009.
PIKKEWYNTJIES TODAY
Six years later we have 28 children, between the ages of 2 and 6 years, enrolled in our school. We are registered as an Early Childhood Development Centre at the Department of Social Development (Registration number C9019) and follow a registered ECD programme with our learners.
Pikkewyntjies is a Non-Profit organisation, a project of Child Welfare South Africa under the auspices of their Kleinmond Office. Although CWSA: Kleinmond is our mother body, we do not receive any financial support from them. Pikkewyntjies Pre Primary has its own Management Committee and Bank account and is solely responsible for its accounts and funding.
Committee meetings are held once a month at which meeting the bookkeeper presents a report of income and expenditure. The Management Committee is accountable to Child Welfare SA: Kleinmond and the constitution of the CWSA: Kleinmond is followed.
The aims and objectives of the school are defined as follows:
Aims:
- To provide a child-friendly environment that is safe, caring and stimulating
- To prepare the children for a smooth transition from pre-school to school
- To build in each child self-confidence and self-esteem by attention to each child’s progress and by providing assistance where required with his or her personal development.
- To honour parent’s trust in us to nurture their children.
Objectives:
- To value each child as an individual
- To foster an excitement about school and knowledge
- To encourage the children to becomeactive participants in their own learning
- To teach problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution
- To encourage creativity
- To encourage parental involvement through regular contact and formal sessions
- To instil in the children an acceptance of others via participation in a classroom community
- To increase an awareness of the outside community and provide opportunities for involvement
- To utilise the community services and resources available to enrich our programme further
- To developteacher expertise, on an ongoing basis, by observation, research, and professional development opportunities
THE ROLE OF PIKKEWYNTJIES
In order to provide a safe environment for the children of the communities involved we are open from 07:00 until 16:30 from Monday to Friday and the school only closes for three weeks during the December holidays.
Some time ago our teachers noticed the children were listless and unable to concentrate due to hunger and the school began providing two meals a day plus a mid-morning snack. A vegetable garden at the school provides greens for the cooked meal at lunchtime.
As the school has grown it has become necessary to provide transport for learners in Rooi Els and Pringle Bay as well as lower Betty’s Bay due to the lack of public transport in this area. Pikkewyntjies is fortunate to have received a donation in 2011 from Lotto to purchase a 12 seater minibus.
While it is the children attending the school who are its primary focus, it remains an anchor for those who have moved into formal schooling in the nearby town of Kleinmond. They visit in the afternoons to tell their first teachers about their day, to show good work and bask in their praise or, sometimes, when they feel discouraged, to be comforted and cheered. Moral support of this kind is not always forthcoming at home.
This too, however, is slowly changing as the principal holds monthly gatherings for parents to discuss parenting skills, preparing cheap, nutritious meals and any other issues of concern.
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION
Summarised Budget
ITEM / 2013 / 2014 / 2015Staff / R209151.25 / R230066.00 / R260 673.16
Food / R25000.00 / R27500.00 / R 36 000.00
Petrol & Oil / R42500.00 / R47000.00 / R 48 250.00
Admin / R20324.00 / R25000.00 / R 34150.00
Total: / R296975.25 / R329566.00 / R379073.16
A detailed audited financial statement is available on request.
Currently we are experiencing a shortfall of R600 per child per month.
Unfortunately the only assistance we receive is from The Department of Social Development which gives us R15 per day for some children. This does not cover salaries for three teachers, the lease of the school building water and electricity, maintenance and repairs, transport, equipment, resources and food for the children.
Almost none of the parents can pay the minimal school fees.
Although Pikkewyntjies has an active fundraising committee consisting of parents and members of the community and fundraising is ongoing Betty’s Bay is too small a community to make up the shortfall.
Lack of money repeatedly threatens the existence of this school. Yet through its work it is helping to break the cycle whereby each generation of children go to school to fail, drop out, join the ranks of the unemployed and eke out a miserable existence mostly on the proceeds of begging and petty theft.
Instead the school is actively building self confidence in the children of these communities and a realisation of their own potential to make good by their own endeavours.
If you are able to contribute financially, you may be sure every cent of your money will be carefully spent to give these small children, Coloured, Black, White and Chinese, their chance to have ambitions and the ability to realise them.
Yours sincerely
Rosemary Fowkes
Volunteer Fund Raiser
BANKING DETAILS: FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CHEQUE ACC, BRANCH: 200412, ACCOUNT NO.: 62147034988
Pikkewyntjies operatesunder the auspices of the Kleinmond Child & Family Care Society, which in turn is a branch of C.W.S.A. Registered as a non-profit organization (Act 71 of 1997) 003-390 NPO, FR 08 000 83000