Craighall Primary school

Primary schooling in Sandton's northern suburbs operates within real constraints: managing class sizes that range from 25 to 35 children, working around load shedding schedules that affect both teaching time and after-care arrangements, and maintaining routine when families are often juggling multiple demands. Craighall Primary navigates these pressures by structuring day-to-day practice—timetabling, remedial support, extramural logistics—to function reliably regardless of electricity supply or staff availability. The school's approach emphasises consistency in fundamentals: phonics instruction that sticks, numeracy taught through concrete methods before abstraction, and homework that reinforces rather than frustrates. Teachers work within the realities of Sandton demographics, where learners arrive with vastly different home language exposure and prior foundation phase experience. That gap-bridging happens through deliberate, incremental teaching rather than accelerated curriculum delivery.