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Programme · Grades 10–12

Educate4Depth

Extra teaching, at the moment it changes a result.

Kodumela's learner enrichment programme, run as Summer, Winter and Spring schools. University students — many of them former learners of the same schools — return to tutor Grade 10 to 12 learners in the subjects that decide their futures.

The challenge

Under-resourced rural schools rarely have the teaching hours to go back and repair the gaps that build up in mathematics, science and accounting. Educate4Depth uses the school holidays to do exactly that, before the gaps become a matric result.

The programme model

How it runs, stage by stage.

  1. 01

    Identify need

    Schools identify the subjects and topics where learners lose the most marks.

  2. 02

    Match support

    Tutors are recruited from universities across South Africa, many of them alumni of the same schools.

  3. 03

    Deliver learning

    Intensive holiday teaching covering the Grade 10–12 curriculum.

  4. 04

    Expose opportunity

    Improved results open tertiary study that was previously out of reach.

  5. 05

    Follow progress

    Matric results are tracked at school and circuit level, year on year.

What participants experience

  • Small-group teaching in the subjects that decide admission
  • Tutors who sat in the same classrooms a few years earlier
  • Subject experts on the topics learners find hardest
  • Three chances a year to catch up rather than one

Typical activities

  • Winter School — the anchor programme, running since 2013
  • Summer School — early exam preparation, so gaps surface at the start of the year
  • Spring School — final revision close to the examinations
  • Subject matter experts brought in for mathematics, science and accounting

Verified impact

What we can prove.

28University tutors in one winter school2014 · annual

Tutors from seven universities taught 120 learners across three schools in the 2014 Educate4Depth winter school.

Reported by Kodumela in “Educate4Depth 2014 Kicks Off”. Tutors came from Wits, UJ, UP, TUT, University of Limpopo, Univen and CPUT.

500+Learners in enrichment programmes2017 · annual

Learners who benefited from the Summer, Winter and Spring Educate4Depth events across a single year.

Reported by Kodumela in “Learner Enrichment Programmes 2017”.

Current and upcoming activity

Winter school holidays

Educate4Depth Winter School — next cycle

Partner schools, Bahananwa and Maleboho circuits, Limpopo

Related reading

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Learner Enrichment Programmes 2017

Summer, Winter and Spring Educate4Depth events reached over 500 learners in a single year.

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Educate4Depth Winter School 2016

Eight schools across two circuits, subject matter experts brought in for the hardest topics — and learners asking them to come back.

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Summer School 2015

Volunteers introduced the learner assistance programme early in the year, for Nakedi and Thokampe Secondary Schools.

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Educate4Depth 2014 Kicks Off

Twenty-eight tutors from seven universities returned to Limpopo to teach 120 learners across three schools.

Ways to support Educate4Depth

This programme runs on people and funding.

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