MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Siemens South Africa, in association with the Siemens Foundation in Germany, visited Mossel Bay during the school holidays to assist teachers from six primary and three secondary schools to make science a hands-on experience for their learners.
Each participating school was donated a huge Experimento kit and other resources and teachers were trained by Siemens facilitators to use this in practical ways to enhance their learners' retention and science education.
One of the local champions of the project and coordinator of the Siemens Foundation in Cape Town who has been running the programme for the past six years, Linda Schomer, is enthusiastic about the programme, saying learners may get to realise the value of science in their everyday lives through the various experiments.
She added that the programme was piloted at the German Schools in Cape Town and Johannesburg before it was rolled out to other schools.
The Experimento kits, containing equipment that could be used when engaged in experimental work, have been fine tuned to meet the local curriculum and teaching standards perfectly. Everything that teachers could possibly need, even elementary necessities such as pens and paper, are included in handy smaller containers that perfectly fit into the bigger containers.
Schomer was assisted by Gillian Kay, another facilitator on behalf of the Siemens Foundation.
Siemens corporate social responsibility manager, Emily Molefe with some of the containers of laboratory equipment donated to several schools in Mossel Bay.
The Siemens corporate social responsibility manager, Emily Molefe, was on hand to present the kits and wished the teachers from local primary and secondary schools well.
She congratulated the various participants for sacrificing their holidays to attend the workshops, where they received demonstrations on the implementation and use of the equipment and learning materials.
Siemens South Africa representatives, in association with the Siemens Foundation in Germany, visited Mossel Bay to assist science teachers. At the very back, left, Gillian Kay, one of the facilitators of the Siemens Foundation, explains a concept to some of the teachers.
She said this programme was one of many that Siemens South Africa was involved in. The teachers that the Mossel Bay Home Ads News spoke to were enthusiastic about the kits, saying the equipment and hands-on experiments and the various teaching strategies they were taught would enable them to make science a much more understandable, even fun subject.
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