It is with great admiration to write you this message and I hope it will find you well. I do not know where to start to thank you and the entire St Peter's School community for the upliftment and support you have given us. Shea O'Connor Combined School will no longer be the same. As of today, the installation has been completed and is functioning perfectly well.  The Solar Power Africa team handed over the project as completed today. All electricity gadgets that the school have are compatible with Solar Power, with the exception of the Microwave and Kettle.   

 

Teachers' lessons henceforth will no longer be interupted by Eskom electricity loadshedding and outages. It will also maximise the amount of subject content knowledge imparted to pupils as there will be less writing on whiteboards and more on projecting prepared work. I also mentioned to you that for us this is a huge step forward, now we are about to start Final Examinations for the entire school. Photocopying of examination question papers will not be a challenge any longer. We used to postpone other examinations due to electricity loadshedding.  Also, teachers used to struggle with entering marks in the system (SA-SAMS) for report-card purposes. School Governing Body meetings that are held in the evening used to be postponed or we lit candles, now all that will be a thing of the past. This is the difference you have made to the school and our lives as teachers.