Marang Primary School learners gathered in the quadrangle for Monday morning assembly, singing the school anthem under the South African flag.
School Life

A normal week, lived well.

Mondays open with assembly. Wednesdays smell of bread and gravy. Fridays end with athletics on the dust field. Below is what an ordinary year at Marang actually looks like — the sports day, the choir, the reading corner, the small wins.

A week at Marang

Six rooms in our school year.

Click any photograph to view it full-size. These are not staged. They were taken on ordinary days, by our Grade 7 photography club, with a borrowed phone and the natural light coming through the classroom windows.

Monday morning assembly under the flagpole at Marang Primary School.
Monday Morning Assembly The whole school sings, every Monday at 07:30.
The 100m sprint final on athletics day at Marang Primary School's dust field.
Athletics Day Last Friday of every term, on the back field.
Marang Primary's choir performing at the district eisteddfod, dressed in white shirts and red ribbons.
Eisteddfod & Music Setswana hymns, district eisteddfod each August.
Two Grade 2 learners sit on cushions in the school's reading corner, deep into a picture book.
Reading Corner Twenty minutes of quiet reading, every day after lunch.
Grade 5 and 6 learners on the Mapungubwe excursion bus, holding their packed lunches.
Annual Excursion Each Intersen grade visits one museum or heritage site a year.
Members of the after-school chess club playing on plastic boards in a Grade 6 classroom.
After-School Clubs Chess, choir, mini-soccer, sewing, garden & spelling.
Awards & Outcomes

Quiet wins we’re proud of.

We are not a top-ranking school in glossy league tables, and we don’t pretend to be. But over the past five years our learners have placed in district competitions, our garden has been recognised, and 92% of our Grade 7s have moved on confidently into local high schools.

District awards
0+ In choir, athletics & spelling since 2020
Subject placements
0+ Top-10 finishes in district maths & reading
Grade 7 transition
0% Move on to local public high schools
Garden harvest
0kg Spinach & morogo grown for NSNP in 2024
Marang Primary's choir holding their second-place certificate at the 2025 Bojanala District Eisteddfod.
2025

Second place — Bojanala District Eisteddfod

Choir, Grade 5–7 (Mr. Mokoena, choirmaster)

A Grade 5 learner holds her medal from the Bojanala District spelling bee.
2025

Top 5, Bojanala District Spelling Bee

Karabo Mahlangu, Grade 5

The Marang u11 mini-soccer team holding the local league runners-up trophy.
2024

Runners-up, Mabopane u11 Mini-Soccer League

Boys’ team, Coach Mr. Sekhukhune

Two Grade 6 learners proudly hold their Maths Olympiad participation certificates.
2024

SA Mathematics Olympiad — District Level Pass

Three learners, Grade 6–7

A Department of Basic Education school-garden recognition certificate hanging in the school office.
2024

DBE School Garden Recognition

Whole-school project, NSNP partnership

A learner runs across the finish line at the district athletics meeting, holding her bronze medal afterwards.
2023

Bronze, 800m, Bojanala Athletics Meet

Lerato Mokoena, Grade 7 (now at Hebron Senior Secondary)

The Marang u13 girls' netball team during a community-day exhibition match.
2023

Community-Day Netball Champions

u13 Girls, Coach Mrs. Phokwane

From the school yard

News & community notices.

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