Garrett Primary School

Teaching in Gqeberha's primary schools operates within realities that shape daily practice: load shedding disrupts timetables and online learning platforms, water interruptions affect hygiene routines, and transport logistics mean some learners arrive after the bell having navigated long minibus routes. Garrett Primary School functions in this environment where teachers plan lessons knowing that electricity may not be available, where outdoor learning and practical activities become more important than reliance on projectors and screens, and where routines must flex around what's happening in the city on any given day. The school's approach to teaching reflects an understanding that South African primary education isn't delivered in a bubble—it's shaped by infrastructure realities, by the economic pressures on families who drop children at school and head to work, and by the need to build resilience alongside literacy and numeracy. What happens in the classroom is inseparable from what's happening outside it.