Welcome To Prinshof – Prinshof School

Welcome To Prinshof School

Welcome

OUR VISION AND MISSION

To provide excellent and relevant specialized training and education to visually impaired and blind learners.

To provide specialized education and training according to relevant laws, regulations, and policy indicators of the educational authorities.
To provide and coordinate hostel boarding facilities, learner-transport, medical and auxiliary services.
To train and educate learners optimally taking into consideration their abilities, talents, interests, and individual needs.
To strive, during the process of education, to maintain, teach and set an example regarding morally accountable norms and values and to lead learners to responsible decision-making and self-empowerment.

To lead and guide learners to an appreciation of respect for their own culture as well as that of others to cultivate respect for the human rights of all people.
To equip staff on all levels continuously, to qualify them for their task and incorporate them in the decision-making process to utilize their abilities, talents, and interests in the visually impaired learner.
To establish a partnership with all stakeholders in the education and training of learners, strengthened by a spirit of mutual and deliberate cooperation, to facilitate the process of learning and self-development.
To guide learners into adulthood within an environment of unconditional love and acceptance through excellent and efficient teaching.
To become a resource center supporting the process of inclusion.

OUR VALUES

Equality

Respect

Integrity

Responsibility

Honesty

BACKGROUND

SCHOOL TRANSPORT

School Transport

Transport is available to certain central points in Pretoria and surrounding areas
for a pre-determined fee.

Please contact the school if you would like to enquire about school transport.

FACILITIES

Printing shop

On-site printing facility to print educational material and convert written text
and graphs into Braille.
3D printer to convert concepts into a tactile learning experience.

Hostels

7 hostels housing learners living outside the school’s perimeters.
Placements are done according to age and gender.
Hostels are closed over weekends.
Meals are included in the hostel fees.
Rooms are fitted with a bed, mattress, and a lockable cupboard for each
learner.
Hostels are equipped with recreational materials such as televisions, chess
sets, table tennis, toys, reading books, fingerboard and soccer equipment.

Prinshof School Magnet Music Centre offers Braille Music to the learners of Prinshof School. Large print is also offered at the Centre.

Learners may choose from the following instruments: Piano, Recorder and Voice Training, Guitar and African Drums.

The Magnet Music Centre offers choral singing to the learners of Prinshof School. The school has two choirs namely the Junior Choir and the Chamber Choir.