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School context

Context means the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or
idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood. In this case we will be

discussing the context of the school we are currently at, Phumulani Secondary

school.

According to L.T Khumalo, the school context of Phumulani Secondary school is one
that promotes working together to achieve particular goals. Every morning there is

staff briefings that every one of the staff members attends, this is where the
management of the school basically delegates his teachers into different activities for

that day, what the school needs to achieve and other issues which the school is
currently facing, to run orderly so. The school also promotes collaborative teaching, it

is made sure that everyone in the staff takes part in making the school a success.

With regards to the school policy, there was a section addressing the school
uniform,” I was impressed by how the learners comply to those regulations”,

according to Khumalo LT. There has never been a learner during our stay here that
was reprimanded for uniform, that is how much these learners respect the policy and

their uniform.

According to N Zodala, with regards to the objectives of the school, I was impressed
with how everything was set out and is aligned to the conduct of the school on a

daily basis. A lot of institutions have a Programme of Action (POA) that is set out at

every beginning of the year, at our stay at this school, they were transparent enough
to share that with us and I am proud to say that we as student teachers witnessed

that being carried put to its fullest potential.

According to S.N Ntanzi, in terms of mentoring, I feel as though our mentor teachers

give us a platform to shine. They aid us with everything they can for as far as we

need help. They give us enough time for lesson preparation and were fair enough to
not give us work that is irrelevant. The staff members and the learners as well are

very easy to work with because everyone is eager to teach and learn from us also.

The school basically tactically disciplined, in terms of time arrival and knock off.
There were issues of drugs and other substances but due to teamwork the issue was