We are an ordinary public primary serving the children of Bodibe Village and the farms around it. The classrooms are simple, the homework book is well-thumbed, and the year is held together by the people you'll meet on this page.
When parents bring a child through our gate for the first time, they are not only enrolling a learner — they are trusting us with the early years of someone they love. That trust is the heaviest, kindest thing a public school carries.
Makgwe Primary is a no-fee Quintile 1 school. Our resources are modest, our class sizes are real, and our textbooks travel a long way before they reach a desk. But we are also a school where every educator knows every learner by name, where the National School Nutrition Programme keeps our youngest readers fed, and where parents and the SGB sit at the same table when decisions are made.
We teach the CAPS curriculum in Setswana for the Foundation Phase and English from Grade 4 — because the languages of home and the languages of opportunity must both belong to our children. We make space for play, for the kind of questions that don't have a textbook answer, and for the long, patient work of helping a quiet child find their voice.
This is not a perfect school. It is, instead, a school that is honest about what it has and generous with what it knows. We hope you'll come and see for yourself.
A child who feels known will learn things you never even tried to teach them.
— Mrs. Dineo Mogotsi, Foundation Phase HOD, after twenty-three years at Makgwe
Three plain commitments that the SGB, our educators and the parent body have agreed to, and that we revisit at the start of each school year.
To deliver the CAPS curriculum honestly and warmly, to feed every learner who needs feeding, and to send each Grade 7 leaver into high school able to read, count, and ask a good question without fear.
For Bodibe and the surrounding farms, we want Makgwe to be the kind of public primary parents recommend without hesitation — known for safety, for steady teaching, and for treating every child like their own.
Humanity, trust, and good conduct. We borrow these from our community, not from a marketing brochure. They show up in how teachers speak to learners, how prefects greet visitors, and how we handle a hard day.