Mbali Nkabini, Principal of Gobindlovu Comprehensive
School in Vulindlela (far right) discusses his vision for the
Saturday School project with (from left) Elaine Smallbones,
Maths teacher, Pietermaritzburg Girls High School (GHS),
Barbara Watt, Biology teacher GHS and André Comrie,
Biology department, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Hytec Pietermaritzburg sponsors SchoolTrade, an educational development initiative in which better resourced schools provide teaching support to disadvantaged schools in an effort to improve subject knowledge and up learner results in Science, Biology and Maths.

Recently, in a twinning intervention, teachers from Pietermaritzburg Girls High (GHS) reached out to the Gobindlovu Comprehensive School in rural Vulindlela, who is determined to improve its matric results. GHS Biology teacher Barbara Watt and her colleague, Elaine Smallbones (Maths), conducted Saturday classes and liaised with their Gobindlovu counterparts to learn from each other and to share resources.