Itsitsa Primary School in Mfuleni walked away with four trophies at the Metro North District Music Competition held at Saffier Primary School in Parow on Saturday 27 May.
The competition featured seven primary schools from the Metro North district. They competed in various music categories for places at the provincial music competition next month.
The school took honours in the junior category with the song “Stand by me”. They also finished in second place in the Zulu song category and Indigenous Folklore.
It also finished in second place.
In the Boys Category it finished in third place.
Grade 3 teacher and a choir conductor Hope Mapila described her learners’ success as the culmination of the hard work of the previous years to achieve good results.
“We went to the competition well prepared,” she said.
“We practised after school, on weekends and during holidays. We were aiming for top position in all the categories, but we couldn’t make it in some.”
Mapila said Itsitsa was preparing for the provincial school choir competition, which will be held in mid-June.
“Only the juniors will go to the provincial school competition, to be held at Artscape in Cape Town from Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 June. We also want to go to nationals,” she said.
Mapila expressed her gratitude to staff members and parents for their unwavering support during difficult times.
In the competition last year the juniors came third, achieving the same in the boys category.
In Indigenous Folklore category they also achieved the second position and for their Xhosa song they took third place.
