Welcome
home away from home!
A
warm welcome to JPI and a happy new
learning season! As we start the new
year, may I take this opportunity to
thank you all for the continued support
you have given us during the past year.
Our learners continued to pass their
CATs as well as the end of the year
examinations with distinctions not to
mention the sports fetes we have
participated and won in the Inter Inner
City Schools competitions.
We are
proud that the Department of Basic Education
and the entire learning fraternity
supports us in our endeavour to provide
unique homegrown solutions to problems
facing education in Gauteng today.
For those
joining us this year, you have made the
right choice. Take time to enjoy the
friendship of fellow students and the
support of your educators. Many learners
fear asking questions but it's our
culture at JPI to ask.
If you
are contemplating joining us, you may
have your fears also, what is it like
being in a new school? how are the
learners, educators and how is the
environment?. Its Okay to ask all these
questions, and I would like to advise
you to come for one day orientation with
no obligation at all and you won't
regret it.
Discipline
I am
aware of the heavy burden that our
educators have to contend with in
balancing discipline as well as
teaching. Instilled Discipline is one of
the key pillars of our education system
at JPI. We are not going to relent on
this and as you are aware no form of
indiscipline will be tolerated
whatsoever. I have already instructed
the School Disciplinarian to deal firmly
with anyone who breaks the school
regulations. I therefore urge you to
read and memorize if need be all the
golden rules and regulations before
embarking on your studies.
We have
been lenient in the past on those bent
to break regulations, but from this
season onwards, we are not going to
relent. Lateness as well as absconding
classes will never be tolerated, neither
perennial absenteeism without Doctors
Advice notes. We must raise the
standards and parents/guardians are
urged to ensure that we win on this.
May I congratulate all the year 2010 Matriculants who made us very proud
during the trial examinations,
I understand the pressure you were
facing given that the World Cup plus the
teachers strike did not make matters any
better, indeed all of you who passed made us all
proud. We are looking forward to another year in
a row that will prove to the
doubting Thomases that JPI has come of
age and we are now a force to reckon
with, but more importantly that where
there is a will there is a way. Indeed
your success is also our success and we
are proud of you. I take this
opportunity to wish all the 2010 matriculants the best in their
forthcoming exams. Go for the Prize and
make us proud!
To the
educators, you have the most tasking
duty this year, the parents and
guardians of these young leaders are at
your hands, you can make them good
leaders or you can do otherwise...God
forbid!. But my advise is; how would you
like to see the next Dr. Koffi Annan coming
from your own class? I know it would be
a fulfillment of a dream come true,
therefore as you undertake your
professional duties, remember all these
students have an equal chance of being
Dr. Koffi Annan. You hold their destiny in
your hands, and it's your obligation and
duty to not only make them good leaders
of tomorrow but good citizens of the
world.
To quote
former president of South Africa- the
Nobel laureate Mr. Nelson Mandela,
Education still remains the single most
sure way of getting out economic burden
for most Africans and this year I would
like to urge all our students to strive
even more and achieve the highest
possible grades to not only make us
proud but also ensure a place for your
future.
To
2009 matriculants we salute you for having
made us proud. Your efforts made us
clinch 98% pass rate, yes we could have
performed better, and I hope and will
work towards achieving 100% this
year-with everybody's cooperation!
Conclusion
Finally
once more may I take the opportunity to
wish everybody a prosperous stay at JPI,
one full of blessings. Remember to live
by our motto, .."the spirit that never
dies" may you live to say once more I
will not die... I shall live by the
Grace of God...
God
Bless.
Rev Dr. M J Gwanda Principal-JPI
