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OLWANDLE HIGH SCHOOL

Geographical location
Olwandle high school is situated in South Africa, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, Port Shepstone, Gamalakhe township. The school can be located at the following geographical coordinates in decimal degrees minutes=Latitude-30 45 00, Longitude 30 27 00. Otherwise you can locate our school on the following physical address=Lot 1008, Ray Nkonyeni Road, Gamalakhe. Our local municipality is called the Hibiscus coast municipality. The word township is South Africa it carries a heritage meaning and thus it’s a residential development that was confined for non-whites living near or working in white only communities. In this case the people of Gamalakhe will be working in areas such as Port Shepstone, Oslo beach, Shelly beach, Margate and Ramsgate. The school basically serves the kids of the working class.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Our school was built on political foundation. It started as combined school in Buhlebezwe the moved to the a new site in 1990. The school is nicknamed Mandela high because Mandela had great influence towards the development of the new site. Due to the increase in the demand of labour in the white market most Blacks from the rural areas flocked into Gamalakhe, hence the increase in the number of inhabitants in the areas Gamalakhe. The increase in the population led to the overcrowding of the combined school. Then Olwandle was born. Olwandle was official opened in 1991 under the principalship of Mr.Mbonwa Nkosinathi Cedric and currently under Mr. Gwala Himilton Ndodo. The name Olwandle means the sea, Ocean. The name was give because we are the only school in the area with sea view, hence Olwandle.we are surrounded by 2 high school and 5 primary schools who are our feeder schools. Our school is a high school and it offers education from last 2 grades of General education and training band (GET) .The school operates in accordance to the South African constitution under the South Africa school act 84 of 1996.

COLORS OF THE SCHOOL
Our school has 5 symbolic colors, blue, yellow, white, green, and black. Each color has significant meaning. Black represents the majority of Africans in our school. Blue represent our blue water on our see view. Yellow for the sunlight, white for peace and prosperity in our school and green for the vegetation of school. This colors are well demonstrated on the school uniform.

RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND
The school has adopted the Christian religion based on the community\s identity. we are having the the enrollment of 935 learners, 27 educators, 5 non-teaching staff. The school is comprised of 3 faculties or departments and that is Science, Commerce, and Social science.

THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS
The organizational charts of our school stands as follows 1.	The SGB (School governing body) 2.	The SMT (School Management Team) 3.	Teaching Staff 4.	Non-Teaching Staff We are amongst few public schools in South Africa to have facilities, our school has the Library, computer Lab, Home Economics, Physical Science Lab, Biology Lab, Arts Studio, Soccer Field, Basket Ball Combo and the cottage. The physical facilities and financial sector of the school is managed and administered by the SGB. Apart from academics, our school offers the extra-curriculum activities such as choral music, Sports and cultural activities. THE MOTTO OF THE SCHOOL IS UNITY IS STREGTH.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
The school work together with the community and support the surrounding community offering ADULT BASED EDUCATION/ABET. The community is also allowed to use the school premise to have things like church services, community meeting and the usage of the sports field together with the basketball combo.

EXTERNAL STAKE HOLDERS.
Our school works with external stake holders that are indirectly involved in teaching and learning but supports the smooth running of the education system. This is departments such as the Health, the department of social well fair, the department of sports and recreation, and the local municipality.

Strength

 * We produced quite a number political leaders and local business; hence we are the most famous school in the region.
 * Our school was recently built and the structures of the school are fairly new.
 * The teaching staff is made of 100% qualified teachers
 * Excellence in academic, sports and extra-mural activities
 * The school is very supportive to the community.

Weakness

 * Social challenges are reflecting on to the performances of some of the learners in our school e.g. learners are getting affected by the social issues such as teenage pregnancies and ignorance.
 * Poverty
 * Forever growing number of learners in our school, hence the increase in the teacher learner ratio.
 * Shortage of the hall facility.