Classroom
Foundation Phase classrooms
Twelve teaching rooms with painted walls, hand-drawn alphabet posters and a small reading shelf in every room.
Home School Life
Where the school day actually happens.
A walk through our seven everyday spaces, the activities that fill them, and the small pieces of work our children make.
7 spaces · one campus
Spaces & facilities
Modest, clean, ours.
Seven photographs of the spaces our learners actually use every day. We have not staged them — this is what Tuesday morning looks like.
Arts
The little art room
Paint-spattered wooden tables, donated brushes, recycled jam jars for water. Quiet on Mondays, busy by Wednesday.
Library
Reading nook & library
Around 30,000 mostly donated readers on simple wooden shelves. A storytelling stool. A rug. The most-borrowed book is “Chinaka and the Chickens.”
Indoor
Main hall
Doubles as our assembly space, our netball & mini-soccer court when it rains, our concert stage on Heritage Day.
Outdoor
Sports field
Bare grass and dust, two homemade wooden goalposts and a 60-metre running track scratched into the earth. It is enough.
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Feeding kitchen & dining
Two gas burners, an aluminium boiling pot, a chalkboard with today’s menu, and the gentle steam of pap before lunch.
Wellbeing
Wellbeing & counselling room
Two soft armchairs, a basket of cuddly toys, a feelings chart on the wall. Mr Dlamini is here Tuesdays and Thursdays.
We promise: a clean classroom, a warm meal, a quiet corner, and a teacher who knows your child’s name.
School activities
A school year in six pictures.
Weekly assembly
Anthem, school news, a learner-led reading. 15 minutes, every Monday and Friday.
Annual sports day
Dust, cheering, a hand-painted finish line ribbon and two new district records.
Heritage Day festival
Setswana folk plays, drumming, traditional attire over school uniforms, every grade performs.
Read for Heritage marathon
A whole afternoon of silent reading on blankets. The school is quieter than at midnight.
Grade 6 heritage excursion
A day trip to the local heritage centre to meet the Taung Child fossil — very up close.
Parents open day
Each class teacher walks parents through the term’s work. Tea and koeksisters afterwards.
Children’s work
Six pieces of work we are proud of.
Every term we display new pieces in the corridor outside the principal’s office. The full archive lives in the library.
Painting
Liyana’s family at home
Grade 3B · Liyana M. — Watercolour. “She mixed the orange herself, twice, until she got the right colour for our roof.” — Mr Mokgosi
Writing
“Manthe is my home”
Grade 4A · Tebogo K. — A full page of careful cursive in two languages. Won the district handwriting cup.
Craft
My home in Manthestad
Grade 2B · Karabo S. — Cardboard, wire, bottle caps. Built during a Life Skills lesson on neighbourhood.
Writing
“My dream for Manthe”
Grade 5B · Naledi T. — A full-page essay about the community garden she wants to plant by 2030.
Speaking
“Why our gogos matter”
Grade 6A · Lerato P. — A four-minute English speech that won her the inter-school cup last term.
Code
“My first game”
Grade 6A · Karabo M. — A simple cat-chase game built in Scratch on the donated club laptop. Hours of pride.
Campus news
News from around our school.
Five recent updates from Manthestad. We post one new item every Monday.
Top story
First day of the new academic year — 51 new Grade 1s welcomed
A bright morning at the gate. Fresh uniforms. Some tears (mostly from parents). Our 51 new Grade 1 learners walked their first journey through Manthe today, escorted by Foundation Phase teachers and the Class of 2025 buddy team.
Open House
Forty families joined our March Open House
Tea, biscuits and an honest tour of every classroom. Thank you to everyone who came.
Achievement
Grade 6 wins district mathematics olympiad
Three of our learners placed in the top ten across the Dr Ruth S Mompati district. We celebrated with samp-and-beans for the whole school.
Reading
Read with Me — parents and teachers reading together
A new monthly reading hour where parents and teachers read picture books together to the Foundation Phase.
Excursion
Grade 5 visits a working farm near Taung
A full day on a working farm. Lessons in soil, water, animal care and where lunch actually comes from.