Last month, 102 learners from our Siyakhathala Primary Programme and their Learning Gym coaches visited Rondevlei Nature Reserve; a fascinating home to around 230 bird species, as well as a number of reptiles and mammals. The children were taken around the reserve on a [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNFz0EEfgNU Thank you to Cape Town Embrace for this amazing opportunity of a fruitful partnership. We spotted a few of our SPP staff and coaches in the video doing fun activities with the children. Shout out to Masi, Bukeka, Susie, Arts Outreach learners and other SAEP staff who represented our Siyakhathala Primary Programme on the [...]
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Last week we took our grade 3 and 4 Siyakhathala Primary programme learners and their Learning Gym coaches on a trip to Giraffe house near Stellenbosch. Giraffe House keeps a large variety of wild indigenous animals, almost all of which the learners had never seen in real life. This was an opportunity for 101 learners [...]
More important than income or social standing, having a parent or guardian that is involved in their education is a key factor in predicting children’s school success. Responding to requests from our young beneficiaries to have their parents play a more active role in their school and personal lives; SAEP recently held a collaborative parents' [...]
Our ECD programme had their first principals meeting with the 8 selected centres we will be working with. This marked the beginning of a long relationship with the centres, as we thrive to ensure that we plough into the children’s lives at an early age. It was an event filled with great expectations from the centres [...]
Source: Cape Times 18 January 2016 at 21:54pm By: Xolisa Guzula Xolisa Guzula At the beginning of every year, many people make resolutions for the new year. They have dreams, ambitions and aims of what they want to achieve for themselves personally, at work and for their families. Some of us adults plan to get [...]
Hearing traditional stories, in your own language, is vital for children. It’s the thread that keeps you connected to your world – the world into which you’re born! It shouldn’t be a privilege to have access to that world, it should be a given. I feel like if we can’t provide those stories and books, [...]
Article Published in City Press With our schools buckling under the weight of too many children and too few resources, Grethe Koen looks into the South African civil organisations teaching our kids how to read. It received precious little mention in our media, but local organisation Project for the Study of Alternative Education in SA (Praesa) [...]
As part of the ECD Programme's child protection programme, 2 of our partner ECD centres are receiving monthly protective behaviours activities for their pre-grade R classes. The activities are facilitated by ECD Field Coordinator, Alex Hamill, and ECD Community Liaison Officer, Mirriam Sipondo, who were both trained in the Protective Behaviours Curriculum in 2014. The [...]
