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DelaBat Student Leadership & Committees

Committees

Personeel kommitee

Die komiteelede is verteenwoordigend van die verskillende skoolafdelings. Vanjaar word die huisouers en die admini-stratiewe personeel ook verteenwoordig. Ons dra die personeel se belange op die hart. Sake wat aandag geniet het:
* Ken-mekaar-bring-en-braai vir die personeel en metgeselle.
* Siekebesoek en kaartjies.
* Afskeidgesellighede.
* Baasdag.
* Ons sluit die jaar af deur ‘n opvoering by te woon by die Barnyard.

Hostel committee

Members:
- Hostel teachers.
- Hostel parents.

Focus points:
- Discipline.
- Leadership.
- Organizing groups of learners over weekends.
- General problems.

Inligtingstegnologiekomitee (IT)

Die haalbaarheid van die uiteenlopende werk het uitdagings geverg. Sake wat aandag geniet het, was:

R60 000 is benodig vir die daarstel van die projek en hoewel die skool nie die geld gehad het nie is daar besluit om met die projek voort te gaan. Opgewondeheid het geheers toe ‘n ver-dere toekenning bekom is om die projek te befonds.

Sign Language committee

A Sign language committee has been established. There are three teachers and two learners on the committee. In a short space of timewe have done a lot and we are very excited. The main responsibilities of the committee are:
* to standardize sign language for the school.
* to improve communication between teachers and learners.
* Staff training has also started.

Godsdienskomitee

Dié komitee se werksaamhede is gerig op die geestelike versorging en ontwikkeling van die personeel en die leerders.

Fokuspunt:
* Leerstof ontwikkeling vir Bybelonderrig.
* Karakterbou deur die pilare van Betroubaarheid, Respek, Regverdigheid, Verantwoordelikheid, Omgee en Burgerskap.
* Omgeeprojekte sluit in: Spook-projek, waar onderwysers boodskappe en verrassingspakkies aan leerders gee deur die kwartaal.

Career development and learners leaving school committee (CDL)

This committee consists of fourteen staff members of whom five act as career guidance leaders for the twelve 2010 school leavers. Together with the learner job opportunities are being pursued and applied for. Assistance to apply for a driver’s license, registering for different skills development courses at Lewensruimte is but a few of the tasks of this committee.

Annually a visit is being paid to Malmesbury Cape Agri to expose learners to the running of a business from the time an order is being placed till the finished products are on the shelves. A highlight of the school leavers’ year is the church service at the De la Bat Congregation in Bellville.

Learner committee

The learner committee consists of representatives from the different phases of the school. The following matters were discussed and recommend- dations were made: