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South African history brought to life at Nova Hreod SAFEMAID

Thanks to a Global School Partnership grant from the Department for International Development, Year DOMESTIC CLEANING SERVICES
9 students at Nova Hreod are having the history of apartheid brought to life for them in a most extraordi-
nary way, through the increasingly strong links with Harold Cressy School in Cape Town, South Africa. Had a disappointing
Nova community coordi- experience in the past?
nator Tom Wilkes said the Safe Maid provides professional,
contact is now in its fi fth year. fully CRB checked, trained and
“Harold Cressy, our partner insured staff for your home,
school is situated right on the with an emphasis on
edge of District 6, the area of Quality and Reliability.
Cape Town that was forcibly Cleaning programmes designed
reclaimed for whites during around your specifi c needs.
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young boys at the time of Youngsters and staff from Harold Cressy welcome for the Nova staff at 6am at the airport
the clearance, so have vivid www.safemaid.co.uk
memories of what happened. This delegation who travelled to Cape curriculum.”
is an extraordinary thing for our Town in October, and were royally Scott Thomas is the history
students to learn about, right from hosted by staff and students from teacher leading the focus on apart-
the people who were there as their Harold Cressy. heid history. “The students are
homes were destroyed.” “They even got a tour of Robben receiving the topic brilliantly well,
History teacher Satveer Nuar, Island in the company of a Har- and it is linking very nicely with
science teacher Nick Mithcell old Cressy old boy Sedick Isaacs, the work we’re doing on the Civil
and computing specialist Dalton who was imprisoned with Nelson Rights Movement. It’s good to have
Godwin formed the Nova Hreod Mandela,” said Tom. “We have the two perspectives to compare
video footage and understand, and the fact we
of an interview can share materials and work with
with Sedick, our partner school means that the
conducted by learning is much more powerful
Satveer, which and effective.”
is like gold dust Dalton worked on the Harold
for our history Cressy IT set up to improve com-
munications between the schools.
Satveer, Nick and
Dalton with Man- Next year’s bid for the partner-
dela prison compa- ship grant will be based on a science
triot Sedick Isaacs project.

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