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About Us
Your Child Is in Great Hands
Philosophy
We have served the community of Masiphumelele since November 2011 coming from humble beginnings in an informal shack. We migrated into our new building in April 2016. One of our biggest challenges is encouraging parents to play an active role in the lives of their children and the school. The school is part of the community in Masiphumelele. Children thrive when their parents play an active role in their development and their relationship with the school and educators. Parent motivation, support and encouragement is valuable to their children as well as the running of the school.
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"The Rainbow ECD Pre-School is committed to providing an effective Early Childhood Development facility in Masiphumelele. This facility will support children from birth to 6 years where they will be immersed in an environment dedicated to developing their physical, social and cognitive capacities. As importantly, children at the facility will be helped to develop their language and comprehensive abilities, thereby ensuring that they are well prepared to start school."
Our Values
We take responsibility for the commitments TO OUR CHILDREN WE SERVE, the actions we preform and the problems that arise. Taking responsibility for our actions influences the lives of our children and our fellow workers. We accept that we will be judged by our actions.
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At work, we treat each other AND THE CHILDREN as we would like to be treated – we value and learn from the strength of our diversity. We actively listen to and notice the needs of all.
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In our field of child development we strive as individuals, and as an organisation, to break new ground and achieve higher levels of performance; for the benefit of the children and community we serve.
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We have a sense of responsibility and see the value in contributing to society. This defines us as citizens of our country.
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We give the best of ourselves and aim for excellence each day.
Children's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO GOOD EDUCATION AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO STUDY AND RESPECT THEIR TEACHERS.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO LISTEN TO OTHERS.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO QUALITY MEDICAL CARE AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE LOVED AND PROTECTED FROM HARM AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SHOW OTHERS LOVE AND CARING.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO GET SPECIAL CARE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO BE THE BEST PERSON THEY CAN BE.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE AND BELIEFS AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO RESPECT OTHER ORIGINS AND BELIEFS.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES.
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CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE WELL FED AND THE RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO WASTE FOOD.
Our History
Our Journey
The idea of Rainbow ECD was born after the Pastor, from South Side Church (prev. The Peoples Church) Sun Valley, spent some time in Masiphumelele and witnessed the need for intervention for the children in the area.
Shortly after, a team of willing and skilled people formed a steering committee and they also became the initial board for the NPO created. A principal, Ntombizintle Cornelia Musekela, was identified and sent for further training and development with Safe and Sound in Johannesburg. On completion she started a small informal crèche at her home with most of her support coming from the church.
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The entire vision of Rainbow ECD changed after Mr. Al Richie identified the need for sound structure in the board and introduced us to Rotary Club Newlands. Through extensive negotiations with the community, local councilor and Department of Social Development (City of Cape Town), Rainbow ECD secured the land and allocation of funding by donors through Rotary for the construction of a new facility for Early Childhood Development.
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Our building project, although exciting was not absent of challenges. After the initial foundation of the building was laid further delays caused the building process to stop for 4 months. Eventually the building was completed on 26 April 2016. The official opening took place with great fanfare.
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From there, the difficult and cumbersome process of registering our school was started and with many other processes running simultaneously this was really challenging for the management of Rainbow ECD. We entered into a process with the City of Cape Town for a Facilities Agreement which took months of negotiations. Eventually temporary registration was secured on 8 September 2016 and the Facilities Agreement was received on 2 May 2017. After much work had gone into it, our long term registration was finally secured October 2018.