OH BABY: Alexander Road High School Grade 11 pupils Skye Serenata, 17, and Siphe Mbushe, 17, with their Flour Baby Project ‘offspring’. The ‘babies’ are made from 2.5kg bags of flour. Picture: MIKE HOLMES
THE stork arrived way too early for Alexander Road High School Grade 11 pupils, who have been complaining about sleepless nights caused by their more than 100 newborns.
The high school is conveying the importance of sexual abstinence to its Grade 11s in a clever way – making them experience what being a parent is all about.
The pupils’ initial enthusiasm for the “Flour Baby Project” has waned fast as they discover how time-consuming it is to take care of a baby and how much hard work it entails.
As part of their third term lifeorientation curriculum, all of the Grade 11s – about 210 girls and boys – have to make a baby out of a 2.5kg flour bag and look after the “newborn” for two weeks, including weekends.
-Tremaine van Aardt
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