The Programme
The Peermont School Support Progamme is a five year education intervention designed to build sustainable centres of excellence around seven public high schools situated in the Ekurhuleni and Sedibeng regions. Peermont has committed R40 million to this collaborative programme. Read More
In the Classroom
While the PSSP programme is a whole school intervention, its success will ultimately be measured by the absolute improvement in the matric results over five years. The objective cannot be simply to lift the pass rate, but must aspire to improve the quality of passes and ensure that the learners leave high school as effective communicators with a positive outlook, good value system and high self esteem, and as motivated self starters that are able to become valuable and contributing members of society. Read More
Computer Laboratories
The first major intervention undertaken by the PSSP programme was the commissioning and installation of computer laboratories specifically directed at improving the reading, comprehension and maths capabilities of Grade 8 and 9 learners. ICT technology is simply a tool and not a solution and therefore PSSP could not in the ordinary course support the generic investment in technology without a clear understanding of how the technology would be used in teaching and learning, together with an undertaking from the schools that the assets would be put to good use. Read More
Macbook mobile classroom
Our learners live in the digital age dominated by various forms of social media, cell phones, television and multi-media content. The ways learners receive, integrate and interact with knowledge is different from the past, and continues to change. This impacts on their engagement and receptiveness to the school learning environment (‘chalk and talk’) which has not kept abreast to changes in the workplace, retail and social space. We have a responsibility to prepare our learners for the workplace of the 21st century where the rate of innovation is shortening as new developments are driven by young people outside of the workplace. Read More
Human Rights Campaign
PSSP initiated the PSSP Human Rights Campaign in 2010 in all its schools in order to introduce conversations at school level about human rights, the Bill of Rights and our own Constitution. The campaign includes a number of components including field trips for the learners, school workshops with guest speakers and a poster campaign where learners produce posters. Read More
Extra Curricula
iSchoolAfrica Youth Press Teams
The student press team is an extra-curriculum activity that is aligned to and supports many of the teaching objectives in our schools, and represents the ethos of the PSSP programme which is to provide our learners prospects to excel. The iSchoolAfrica programme offers participating learners a unique opportunity to not only discover their voice, but provides them the tools, skills and platform to share their views and ideas with their peers and television viewing audiences. Read More
PSSP Performing Arts Festival
PSSP's annual Performing Arts Festival is one of the highlights of the school calendar for both educators and learners. Staged in a professional theatre at Emperors Palace, the Performing Arts Festival aims to recognise and support excellence in the performing arts and to celebrate the talent that exists within the seven schools. Each school is invited to showcase their talented learners for 20 minutes and is not limited to any format or genre. Each school also provides a technical team of learners to support the staging of the event Read More
Primary School Intervention
PSSP has agreed to invest some R14,0 million in support of the 20 feeder primary schools that provide the majority of Grade 8 learners to the seven supported high schools. These schools produce between 60% -100% of the served high schools’ intake. It has been broadly recognised that due to a whole range of conditions the primary schools are producing learners that are simply not high school ready, and this has ramifications for the high schools as it has an impact on the allocation of resources, negatively impacts on learning and teaching in the classrooms and consequently on the matric performance of these learners. Read More
The PSSP iSchoolAfrica iPad Learning Programme
PSSP has agreed to invest some R8,5 million of the programme’s capital in technology and technology related solutions for the 27 supported schools. This represents over 20% of the funding that has been committed to the five year programme, before training and support costs. This investment decision has been made in support of the view that ICT can be a ‘game-changer’ in our schools if correctly applied as it can ‘re-energise educators in their craft’, improve the quality and impact of teaching in the classroom.. Read More
PSSP & SCI-BONO DISCOVERY CENTRE ICT TRAINING & SUPPORT PROGRAMME
PSSP has entered into a joint venture agreement with the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre to train educators in each of the PSSP supported high and primary schools in order to create an ICT foundation capacity in each school. The proposed joint-venture is a pilot study to be used to explore and understand how ICT can be introduced and integrated into schools in an orderly and considered fashion. Read More
Leadership and Management
There are a number of challenges that confront school leadership every day in the education environment. It is extremely difficult and stressful to be a leader in our school system. Certain of the challenges are systemic and structural, some are linked to socio-economic conditions and lack of resources and support, others are linked to parental disinterest and learner disengagement, while others still are associated with the department and officials that appear unresponsive and unsympathetic. Read More
Quarterly Management Meetings
The combined leadership and management of the seven PSSP schools meet at Emperors Palace quarterly to discuss, analyse and map out the shape and form of the PSSP intervention going forwards. This consistent monitoring and evaluation of the programme is a learning environment and one of the building blocks of developing sustainability.
Pursuing Excellence Workshop
One of the programme’s challenges is to make the concept of excellence in education visible and tangible, to illustrate what it is, and to celebrate it. PSSP hosts an annual one day ‘pursuing excellence’ workshop in the third quarter of each year at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre. Read More
Principals' Forum
The Principals' Forum meets every six weeks and provides the principals with an opportunity to share ideas and strategies, gives them access to a sounding board that can offer up support and counseling, as well as being placed within a learning environment to learn from peers that are exposed to similar challenges.
Resolve School Leadership Programme
The Resolve Consulting and Management Group is a specialist consulting company specialising in the fields of people, performance and change. Peermont has brought the Resolve team on board to design, implement and manage the Peermont School Leadership Campaign. These campaigns aim to inspire principals to re-new their commitment to leading good basic school practices that underpin school excellence. These campaign practices include: Read More
