Grace Primary School located in Cape Town, is a school that accelerated to popularity in a space of less than two years. Pressure mounted for them to extend their premises, with an estimated seven months to complete construction. United Fibre Cement Company’ s( UFCC) involvement in the project had the school successfully operational ahead of schedule.
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Grace Primary School construction standing complete ahead of schedule.
UFCC eases construction pressure of primary school
Grace Primary School located in Cape Town, is a school that accelerated to popularity in a space of less than two years. Pressure mounted for them to extend their premises, with an estimated seven months to complete construction. United Fibre Cement Company’ s( UFCC) involvement in the project had the school successfully operational ahead of schedule.
By Ntsako Khosa
Established in 2014, Grace Primary School aimed to provide high quality, affordable independent schooling- based on Christian foundations- to Pinelands and the surrounding community.
Founded by three Pinelands couples, they were motivated by a desire for a richer, more stimulating education than the CAPS curriculum provides. The desired curriculum needed to be one which actively underpinned their value system and embraced a philosophy of education that was literature based, ideas-orientated, noncompetitive and nurtured the whole person of the child. The school initially leased its property from a local church while it searched for property to develop.
Grace Primary School currently has four classes( a Grade 1 to 3 and a combined Grade 4 and 5 class). They plan to grow by a new Grade 1 class every year.
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