McGregor Waldorf School

Primary and High School Bus

About 43 % of our children come to school every day by bus. They live in Nquebela (Robertson) Township, Zolani (Ashton) Township and Bonnivale.

Grethe, our class 1 teacher, uses our 15 seater minibus to gather the younger children from Nquebela in the morning and bring them back right after school. Matthew, our hostel parent, drives our 40 seater, second hand bus to Zolani to pick the children up there and on the way back gathers the older Nquebela children.

This bus only goes back home at 2.30 pm when the High School students are finished school. There is a lot of interest, especially in Zolani Township for children there to come to our school. There is no English medium education in the area and a lot of Black African parents feel the need for their children to be educated in English, which they consider the language of opportunities.

The school wishes to acquire another 25 seater bus, in order to accommodate the demand. There is a move to start an Educare centre in Zolani which would enable the youngest children to have Waldorf Education there and would create more space on the existing bus. But we do believe that another bus would be filled immediately with children wishing to come to our school.

COST: R300,000

The cost of running the bus is covered by the bus fees that parents as a priority need to pay in order for their children to come to school

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McGregor Waldorf School

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