We are a no-fee public primary school in the Bojanala District, North West. Sixty learners, three full-time educators, one shared promise — that every child here is seen, fed, taught well, and walked home safely.
No fancy promises. Just the things a small rural school can do well when teachers know every child by name and grandmothers know the gate keeper by hers.
Grades R–3 learn in Setswana, our home language. From Grade 4 we transition into English, the way CAPS asks us to and the way our families want.
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With 60 learners across seven grades, our teachers split groups by reading level rather than by age. Nobody in Mapaputle goes a whole week without being heard read aloud.
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Through the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) every learner gets a cooked meal of pap, samp, morogo or beans before 11:00. Our two volunteer cooks have been here for nine years.
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Our 400 m² vegetable patch grows spinach, beetroot and dry beans that go straight into the NSNP pots. Grade 5 looks after Tuesday watering, Grade 6 owns Thursdays.
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Every classroom keeps a borrow-and-return book corner. Friday afternoons are “Read aloud at home”: each child takes one book home to read with a parent, granny or older sibling.
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Each Monday assembly opens with a value of the week — respect, courage, sharing, honesty. Class teachers come back to it in life skills lessons, not just on day one.
Learn more"It's the small days that build a child up." — Mma Joyce
A handful of stories worth telling our community — recognitions, visits and the small wins that don't always make the district circular.
Our Grade 6 reader represented Mapaputle alongside 24 other Bojanala primary schools, finishing second in the Setswana category. The whole school waited at the gate with hand-drawn signs.
Our SGB and the Kameelboom Farmers' Forum spent a Saturday morning prepping beds for the autumn planting. Tea and vetkoek were on the SGB.
Mapaputle Primary
