Education on the campus
School by day. Work & Learn by life.
Two distinct products on one address. The on-premises Basic School is a lease obligation we honour from week one. Work & Learn is the open layer above it — after-school for the kids, co-working for everyone else.
Pillar A
The Basic School
Model C, on-premises, lease obligation. Grade R–12 plus the 700→20,000 online scale-out. Talent feeder into the NXT academies.
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Pillar B
Work & Learn
After-school activities for the school cohort + an open Work & Learn community space for founders, students, remote workers and mentors.
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Pillar A · Basic School
A Model C school on the campus. Honoured from week one.
The lease comes with a school. We treat it as a contractual reality and a strategic asset: it is the floor under every other vertical and the talent feeder that keeps the NXT academies pointed at real South African young people, not a tourism abstraction.
700 → 20,000 in five years
The scale-out ladder.
The on-site cohort proves the model. Online and satellite rollout takes the same curriculum and pastoral programme out to a national footprint — funded by the NPO leg (30% EBITDA after the R12m reno reserve, capped at lease+100%).
Talent-feeder loop
The Basic School is also the pipeline.
Basic School (Grade R–12)
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│ top performers · bursaries
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NXT academies (Sportif · Chefs · Rangers · Studio)
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│ cohort graduates · founder track
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Wegro Ventures ←──── Work & Learn (open workspace)Pillar B · Work & Learn
After-school for the kids. Open workspace for everyone else.
Work & Learn is the layer that turns a school day into a campus day. The school cohort flows straight from class into the verticals for after-school. Founders, students and remote workers buy into the same room from the other direction.
After-school · for the school cohort
Free for enrolled Basic School learners. Paid day-pass for non-school members.
Swim
Daily learn-to-swim, water-safety and junior squad. Free for school learners.
Chefs Juniors
Cohort kitchen sessions in the campus food lab, run by Franschhoek Hospitality Academy mentors.
Rangers Cubs
Field literacy with Will of Africa — bush skills, trail walks, conservation.
Sport
Athletics, ball, conditioning. Pathway into NXT Sportif squad time.
Art & Studio
Studio time when NXT Studio is on. Music, content, makers.
Open Work & Learn space
The community room behind the verticals.
One open room. Long tables, whiteboards, a stage corner and quiet study booths. Mentors from the verticals hold rotating office hours. The pre-Ventures cohort sits next to remote workers, sits next to gap-year students, sits next to school bursary kids on a study afternoon.
Founders
Pre-Wegro Ventures cohort. Day-pass or monthly desk in the open workspace, with mentor hours bundled.
Students
Tertiary and gap-year talent — paid memberships, with bursary slots reserved from the Basic School.
Remote workers
Franschhoek-based and visiting. Day-pass model funds the lights, the wifi and the coffee.
Mentors
Operators-in-residence from the verticals (Chefs, Rangers, Sportif, Ventures) on rotating office hours.
How they connect
The school is the floor. Work & Learn is the lift.
The Basic School is non-negotiable — kids in uniforms, CAPS curriculum, day-one pool, lease obligation. Work & Learn is the opt-in layer that makes the address pay back twice: it sells day-passes and memberships to adults, and it gives the school cohort somewhere to keep going after the bell.
Together they are the substrate under every vertical on the campus — and the reason the Phase 1 anchors don't run on tourism money alone.