Far North Secondary School serves the Zandspruit Informal Settlement community though it is in Cosmo City. The school is located in Ward 100 since its establishment in 2014.
The school is Quantile 1 with a feeding scheme. It has 4 Grade 8 classes, 4 Grade 9 classes, 5 Grade 10 and 3 Grade 11 classes and in 2016 they grew into Grade 12. When the school was established, there were 713 learners with 45- 50 learners per class and 16 classrooms in total. The school has no school library, hall and playing fields for the learners.
Learners travel by buses from Zandspruit Informal Settlement to come to school everyday, a 10 minute drive. Learners’ ages range between 13 and 19 years.
Schools and families are now being forced to relook at options for teaching and learning. I hope the current circumstances force a longer-term transformational shift in the way we educate our youth.
