Writing
Straight answers, from ten years of doing this.
Most of what follows started as a conversation on the phone with a parent who could not get a plain answer anywhere else. If a question comes up often enough, we write it down properly.
Online school in Mpumalanga: what is actually available, and how to judge it
Half the province is an hour from a school with the right subjects. Here is what online schooling really offers, and how to tell a good provider from a login.
You did not pass matric. Here are the routes, in the order we would consider them.
January is the worst week of the year for this phone call. The results are out, and nobody has explained that there are four different roads from here.
Adult matric: finishing school at 25, 35 or 50
The job needs matric. You left school in Grade 10, nineteen years ago. This is the part nobody explains at the labour centre.
What online school actually costs, with our numbers on the table
Most providers make you fill in a form to see a price. Here are ours, what is in them, and the four costs that nobody else prints.
What a Zoom lesson at Nova actually looks like
Zoom school has a bad reputation earned in 2020, when everybody did it badly at once. This is not that, and it is worth explaining why.
Finishing school from Ohrigstad, Burgersfort, Dullstroom or a farm in between
A two-hour round trip every day is a term of a child life every year. Here is how families outside Lydenburg do this without the drive.
CAPS or international? How to choose an online curriculum without guessing
Three programmes, three completely different destinations. The choice is much easier once you work backwards from where the student needs to end up.
The kid at the back of the class was never the problem
They are not lazy and they are not slow. They are usually the ones who stopped asking, somewhere around Grade 6, because asking cost too much.
Homeschooling in Lydenburg: what it actually looks like day to day
Most parents who ask us about homeschooling are not after a philosophy. They want to know what Tuesday morning looks like, and who marks the work.
Is the GED recognised in South Africa? The honest answer, including the catch.
Yes, with one significant catch that most people selling this qualification will not tell you about until you have already paid.
Your child is failing Grade 9. Here is what actually happens next.
The hardest calls we take come right after the third-term report. These are the options nobody sets out at a parents evening.
Still not sure which route fits?
Tell us the age, the last grade completed and what has been getting in the way. One conversation is usually enough to map the realistic options — and we will say so plainly if we are not the right fit.