Subject Choices

The school day begins at 7h20 and breaks up at 13h05. A school week (Monday to Friday) is made up of 39 lessons, each 40 minutes long.

It is compulsory for all students to take English and German as a subject from Grade 1. Non-German speaking students take German as a foreign language.

The following subjects are compulsary as well: Mathematics, Natural Schience, Social Studies, Religion, Physical Education, Library, Computer, Art and Music.

Up to the end of Grade 3 all students are taught in their mother tongue. The 4th Grade is a bridging year in which still a lot of German is spoken, but students are familiarised with the English terminology in the various subjects. From Grade 5 onwards the English and German classes are integrated and the lessons take place mainly in English.

From Grade 1 onwards all students have Computer lessons once a week. Here they learn how to handle a computer and how to use the following programmes: Word, Excel, Coral Draw, Encarta Virtual Globe, and Bertelsmann Lexika.

The Delta School Windhoek is also one of the few schools in Namibia that have a Special Needs Class. This class is aimed at children who suffer from a variety of learning problems, and, consequently, fall behind in the mainstream education setting. Miss Elke Ahrens is responsible for this group of children.

Remedial classes are given by Mrs Elke Ahrens, who is responsible for helping students who have a problem in one or two subjects, such as Maths, English and German. Struggling students are placed into groups and are removed from the classroom during the relevant lesson, until the holes in their knowledge have been filled, at which stage they are reintegrated into the mainstream lesson plan. For all other subjects they remain in their designated classes.