Dipeo Nursery School
About Company
Dipeo Nursery School is the Maru-a-Pula home of Peo Group of schools. This popular school offers daycare for babies new born and up, pre-school, aftercare and holiday programs.
The open foyer space with its coffee and tea station provides a warm welcome to parents each day. The principal’s door is always open and Dipeo works on an open door policy inviting parents to come in and chat whenever and also to be more involved with their children’s day at school. Classes are split based on a combination of age and developmental level. There are four large playgrounds which the children play in according to age group.
In addition to the usual preschool studies, children are able to participate in Monkeynastix, Kindermusik, swimming lessons, Bible Classes and Setswana lessons.
The Dipeo animals are a favourite activity. In the morning, the little children go and feed the rabbits which is an excellent way to teach compassion and responsibility. “If I send my daughter in with carrots for the bunnies, she happily leaves my side to go to class” says one Dipeo parent.
Working parents will be relieved to know that they offer all-day classes (aftercare) and popular holiday programs.
Dipeo is a 100% citizen owned and family run business. Peo Nursery School was founded by Christine West in 1997 and has since opened two sister schools being Dipeo in 2008 and later Peo Mela in 2012. Many members of staff who have been with them for 15 years or more. The Peo Group leadership team believes in investing in the citizens of our country and spend much time in the Education and training of their Motswana staff; they believe that in-house training on how to operate and run the curriculum, policies and school procedures is one of the best ways to advance their team of teachers and assistants.
“Working with children is unlike any other business,” says Leesha St Quintin, 28, a partner in the family-run Peo Group of nursery schools. “It is a great responsibility and one that we take very seriously. But with great responsibility comes even greater reward. There is nothing better than watching our little ones grow up into amazing boys and girls. It is a privilege and honour that we get to experience all the time in this industry.”
There are 3 pre-schools under the Peo group of which Dipeo is only one of them. Dipeo is located in Maru-a-pula, Peo Mela is in Phakalane and Peo, being the first of the group, located in Block 6 has been in operation for 23 years. With the location of these schools being in 3 strategic areas around the city it makes accessing any one of them so much easier for Parents. Nice to know is that each of these schools operate on the same programmes so are each identical to the other in terms of curriculum, policies and procedures.
