Nomzamo Natacia Singwayo

• My responsibilities include: Providing emotional support and guidance to learners, promoting a positive and inclusive learning environment. Preparing the classroom for teaching and learning, ensuring that teaching materials are available and ready for use. Preparing mark sheets, keeping records, capturing marks, managing learners’ behavior in the classroom, assisting teachers with lesson planning and delivery, adapting materials to meet individual learner needs. Developed positive relationships with learners, promoting social skills and emotional intelligence. Collaborated with teachers and other support staff to identify and address learner needs. Maintained accurate records of learner progress and behavior. Contributed to a safe and respectful school environment.

• My responsibilities included: Conducting trainings on HIV, TB, STIs & Human rights. Facilitating trainings with traditional leaders in Mpumalanga. Managing training venues, training logistics and training report writing. Providing psychosocial support to Adolescent girls and young women by referring them to primary health care for health services like Pre- exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention and family planning. Raising awareness with both traditional leaders and Adolescent girls and young women on HIV, TB& STIs in the context of human rights. Raising awareness in schools by educating high school learners about teenage pregnancy, HIV, STI prevention, substance abuse and bullying.

• My responsibilities included: Capacitating and mentoring ECD practitioners and managers on Emergent literacy and mathematics (ELM), nutrition guidelines, child rights, child protection, inclusive education, National curriculum framework (NCF), assist with distribution of resources to ECD centres and care givers such as toys, books, food, gardening tools, support project officer in the implementation of community awareness campaigns. Identifying centres that need support towards department of Education registration, facilitating reading camps. Working close with stakeholders supporting the ECCD Program. Also leading reading camps in primary schools, conducting door to door campaigns to sensitize the community about Early Childhood Development services; the importance of child immunization, also provided on-site support and mentoring of ECD centres for capacity building.

Assisted in coordinating and implementing the School Nutrition Programme to support learners’ well-being and readiness to learn.Applied knowledge from Psychology to support learner development, recognising the link between nutrition, behaviour, and academic performance.Worked closely with teachers and school staff to ensure smooth daily feeding operations and learner support.Maintained accurate feeding registers and assisted with data capturing and record-keeping.Supported monitoring and quality control processes by checking food delivery, hygiene, and preparation standards.Assisted in compiling monthly reports, including programme statistics and expenditure tracking.Identified and reported challenges affecting learners (e.g. food shortages, attendance issues) to senior staff for intervention.Participated in school visits, engaging with learners in a supportive and empathetic manner.Promoted awareness of healthy eating habits and positive behaviour within the school environment.Provided general administrative support including typing, filing, and organising programme documentation

• My responsibilities included: leading positive parenting workshops, running educational groups with learners, facilitating positive discipline workshops with parents, supporting ECD centers by training the practitioners on child protection, nutrition guideline, centre management and children’s rights. Assisting ECD centers with writing proposals to potential sponsors and funders. Stakeholder establishment. Organising and leading child health awareness events. Conducting assembly talks in primary schools talking about personal hygiene, positive self-image, no bullying campaigns and setting long and short-term goals.