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Mamokaile School is located at the foot of the Drakensburg mountains in Makgaung village in the Trichardtsdal area of Limpopo, South Africa. It is a primary school offering education to boys and girls aged between 5 and 13 years old and covering Grades R to 7.

In the 2009 academic year there were 423 learners at the school, 209 of them boys and 214 girls.

The dedicated staff teach Literacy, Numeracy, Life Skills, Home Language, English, Afrikaans, Maths, Technology, Arts and Culture, Economic and Management Science, Natural Science and Social Science.

Mamokaile School has five computers which allows students to undertake extracurricular lessons in IT skills. Learners are able to use the Microsoft suite of programmes.

Many of the children are keen sportsmen and teams are regularly entered in inter-school tournaments of soccer and netball.

Mamokaile school has established a link with Cholsey Primary School in Oxfordshire, England. The children in both schools are able to gain a deeper understanding of different people and cultures by exchanging work including lifestyle stories, diaries, pictures and poems. The relationship is managed by World Vision and Choko.

To meet the teachers and support staff at Mamokaile School, click here and to meet the children click here. Once the album has loaded, click on the first picture to enlarge it then use the left and right arrows to scroll through.