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School receives mobile science laboratory

PUPILS at one of the Free State's poorly performing schools believe a new mobile science laboratory will help them to improve their results.

The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) donated the laboratory to Lenakeng Technical School in Welkom on Friday.

The laboratory, which has wheels and can be pushed from one classroom to another, will give pupils the chance to learn physical science practically instead of just theoretically.

"[The laboratory] will assist us to enjoy and love science. It will encourage us to study hard," Grade 12 pupil Kamohelo Nkoatse said.

Nthabiseng Lekale said: "I want to be an engineer and I love working with electricity.

"This laboratory is an encouragement to us and others in lower grades. For the first time ever our school has a laboratory and I plead that we should look after it."

School principal John Sehloho said his school achieved a matric pass rate of 41% last year and has set a target of 90% this year.

"This laboratory is going to play an important role in our learners understanding mathematics and physical science. They are going to understand formulas as they will be doing them practically, not theoretically as we did in the past.

"Our learners are capable of achieving bigger things and this laboratory is going to assist them to understand the subject," he said.

NYDA senior manager Kenalemang Mohale said they were targeting schools that performed poorly and have chosen 107 schools that will receive mobile science laboratories this year.

"We are appealing to business people to come on board to reach more than the 107 schools we have targeted," Mohale said. - ntwagaes@sowetan.co.za

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