Progress Report: Tshegofatso Tlali by Cindy van Heerden

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Oral:

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso demonstrates excellent oral language skills. She expresses her ideas and opinions clearly, engages in discussions with coherence and uses appropriate vocabulary and grammar. Her ability to explain and describe concepts is developing well and she participates confidently in class conversations.

Literacy:

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

She has made strong progress in writing. Her letter and number formation is neat, aligned and legible. Tshegofatso is able to write short CVC sentences, create simple paragraphs, rhyme words and illustrate her writing effectively. She demonstrates good understanding of early literacy concepts and shows creativity in her written work.

Reading:

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso’s reading skills are excellent. She has strong phonics and decoding skills, reads with fluency and expression and demonstrates good comprehension of both fiction and non-fiction texts. She is able to make inferences, predictions and understands story structure confidently, showing enjoyment and engagement in reading activities.

Educator:

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Cecilé Farrar

Principal: Mercia Cruickshank

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso is a cheerful and pleasant learner with excellent manners. She demonstrates strong social skills, showing kindness, empathy and consideration towards her peers. She communicates her needs effectively, takes turns and shares willingly, often acting as a positive role model in the class. While she can be emotional in unfamiliar situations, she quickly adapts with reassurance and gradually gains confidence in new environments.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso has a well-developed understanding of her body in space, demonstrating good balance, coordination and awareness of left and right. Tshegofatso moves safely around the classroom and playground, showing control over her movements and an understanding of personal space. She navigates obstacles confidently and expresses herself physically with poise.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso’s gross motor development is strong. She enjoys physical activities such as forward rolls, cartwheels, running, jumping jacks and star jumps. She demonstrates good throwing, catching and bouncing skills and confidently uses playground equipment, scooters and climbing structures with control and balance.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso's fine motor skills are well developed. She demonstrates good pencil grip and dexterity, can cut and thread with precision, manipulate small blocks, use tweezers effectively and manage buttons and zips independently. Her colouring is neat and controlled and she uses glue and other creative materials accurately, showing excellent finger isolation and coordination.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso shows strong visual discrimination and problem-solving skills. She recognises and matches 2D and 3D shapes, understands positional relationships, tracks visual information accurately and completes patterns. She demonstrates good figure-ground perception and strong visual tracking, which supports her engagement in both academic and creative activities.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso has excellent listening and auditory processing skills, able to recognise sounds, follow instructions accurately and engage enthusiastically in rhythmic and musical activities. Tshegofatso applies her auditory skills effectively in classroom tasks, creative play and story-based activities.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso enjoys imaginative play, dance, music and storytelling. She uses materials creatively, explores different textures and colours and expresses herself confidently through artistic and movement activities. Her enthusiasm for creative tasks reflects her curiosity and strong engagement in all areas of learning.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso has a solid understanding of early mathematical concepts. She recognises and writes numbers up to 100, understands odd and even numbers and works with whole numbers as well as fractions (1/2 and 1/4). She can perform basic addition and subtraction using a number line and abacus, create and extend patterns, understand shapes, measure and compare quantities and interpret simple data and graphs.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

Tshegofatso is a bright, enthusiastic, and capable learner who has shown significant growth across all areas of development. She is a positive presence in the classroom and plays well with her peers, demonstrating strong social skills and leadership potential. It has been a joy teaching Tshegofatso, and we wish her every success as she moves into Grade 1, confident in her abilities and eager to continue her learning journey.

koencindy360 — 2025-09-30 07:41:11 UTC

2025-11-03 19:40:28 UTC

Date of Birth

2025-11-04 07:11:16 UTC

27 July 2019

Weight

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28.8 kg

Height

2025-11-04 07:12:13 UTC

132 cm