Parents Day

Each student had the oppertunity to present a lighthearted slideshow of their experiences and learning so far at the Academy.

Parents Day

Sondela Academy, to the delight of both parent and private student, and interest of the parent, held a parents day at the Student's living quarters.

Open Day

Some of the refreshments that was prepared by the Learner Chefs

Open Day

Parents and children being treated to some drinks and eats before the start of the Open Day Function

Open Day

Tourist Guide Students at the Open Day receiving the interested Guests

Sondela Academy Open Day

Sondela Academy held an Open Day function to promote their courses. About 40 parents and Children arrived. Above is some of the preparation for this day.

Tours

Some more pictures of the Tourist Guide Learner's exposure to tours through Bela Bela

Assessments

Fred Pearce from Energy Guides doing assessments on the Tourist Guide Learners

Learner Support

David Lamprecht manages the Learners support in the computer centre, where he lends support to any Learner on be it, POEs, research, computer programs etc.

The picture to the left are students being taught advanced Excel.

Computer Classes

Our newly equiped computer centre is proven to be very effective in teaching studends to make slideshows, work and Excel and tasks, do research and use the Internet

Learners entertaining the Managers at Meet

Learners performing their song and dance which they prepared for, for the Meet the Management function.

Management meet the Tourist Guide and other Learners

Learners meet the Management. Mr. Van Rensburg, Mr. Haarhoff and Mr. Reinecke addressing and meeting the Learners. Senior Management being entertained by Learners song and dance which they had prepared for the occasion.

Tourist Guide Learnership

Tourist Guide Learners infront of the Boabab tree.

Tourist Guide Learnership

As part of their training, the Tourist Guide Learnerships visit towns to find Tourism information.

This information is then used to draw up a Tour plan to cost the tour.

After that they have to work out the commentary for the tour.

On the 7th of April the Learnerships visited Thabazimbi and Marekele National Park - It was their first visit to a National Park.

Sarah from Marekele were our host and Tourist Guide, and she informed all of us on the Fora and Fauna.

We also visited the mine area and saw the 6 ton rock (iron ore). The Boabab tree made an impression on us.

Tourist Guide Learnership

Tourist Guide Learners visiting Marekele National Park to find tourism information (See commentary above)

Meet the Management Function

The MD (Mr. Ian van Rensburg) and Principal (Mr. Diederick Reinecke), and Cobus enjoying themselves at the function

Meet the Management Function

Private students had the oppertunity to to entertain the Management at the "Meet the Management function" where they had prepared from the decorations, song, dance and food.

Students being taught to cook

Male Students getting a few lessons on cooking as they will have to do it for themselves

Hotel & Lodge Management Students

Hotel & Lodge Management students, and Barbara, the trainee chef in the Academy's training kitchen

Tourist Guide and Conservation studets

Tourist and Conservation Guides preparing and cultivating a patch of land to plant and grow 15 grass species, as an educational exexise

Chef Edward showing students the ropes

Chef Edward extending a a hand

She's fondly called the singing Chef

"Who knew we had to get milk straight from the cow!"

Feeding Blesbok ain't no small feat

Students got the oppertunity to bottle-feed the young blesbok

Wildlife Centre

Marno Briefing the Students on the Wildlife Centre and the animals kept in captivity

Walk and meet

Students being introduced to Hospitality Reception Staff and their operation

Students studying Sondela's rules and procedures

Students studying Sondela's rules and regulations

Course Manager and Students

Course Manager Mrs. Snyman largely incharge of the induction week.

Induction week

First week of induction for the students

More encouragement for the Students

Some more inspiration by Mr. Reinecke

Motivational Speeches

Mr. Reinecke addressing the private students

The man at the helm of it all

The Principal Mr. Diederick Reinecke

Students visiting the Tented Camp

All smiles!

Student Walkabout

Students visiting Funseekers

Welcoming

Chef prepare food on Welcoming

Learner Welcoming

Mr. Ian van Rensburg, Managing Director, welcoming the new learners of 2009 that has started their career in Tourism at Sondela Nature Reserve Academy.

New Student intake 2009

Group Photo Students 2009

Use of this Blogspot

All Learners are invited to use this blogsite to post your learning experiences during 2009.
Typical posts that you can do is where you've done an assignment and informed other Learners of these discoveries.
You can post photos of your colleques where they are busy with training.

Tourist Guide Training Learnerships

Our tourist guide trainees on the Learnership training do some classwork. They also do German classes in order to be able to communicate with German tourists when they are in South Africa.

Welcome to the 2009 Intake

We would like to welcome all our new 2009 learners on the different courses of this year.

We hope that you will enjoy it with us and that you will learn a lot.

As we are a Academic & Workplace institution we know that you will be able to learn the skills to cope with your new career.

Best of everything for 2009

Your Training Team