While working with the learners in our school based as well as community based programs we have observed many young children presenting with low overall skill levels in terms of their language, social, emotional and perceptual development. From observation we have learnt that many children, at an early age, do not receive the necessary stimulation via
The creative works team offered another exciting, vibrant and very active holiday program in the March holidays. The Stanford team offered workshops from Die Bron primary in Stanford while the Masakhane team worked with the children from a new space that we are using from now on with the permission of the Grootbos Foundation. The
Many thanks to our partners in Switzerland , The Amani Harmonic foundation for supporting the new therapy space at Die Bron by providing funds for the extension of our outside deck. It will give us an extra 20 square meters space to do wonderful activities outside under the tress. We are very excited and looking
The theme of colors is extending from our early learning program into the open workshops were the children worked with lots of water color in the past few weeks. They made color rays on paper, explored color mixing, created butterflies and worked with printing flowers with water colors. The quality of watercolors brings a soft
Our early learners had fun in the first term of this year. We all enjoyed working and learning inside our new space at Die Bron primary in Stanford. The first term was filled with activities around the theme of color and Body awareness. We worked with lots of movement activities including bean bags, ball skills
Last week we had the privilege and pleasure to bring Namasun and Ronesca to Stanford for some wonderful drumming facilitation at Die Bron Primary, Okkie Smuts primary, Fynbos Academia as well as Funimfundo preschool. We had some very special sessions with the children at the different schools and want to say thank you to our
The creative workshops started in 2012 as a community based initiative in Stanford at Jenny October’s home with the support of DK projects, Rotary and the Stanford community. The underlying idea of the workshops is to create a safe space and offer extra mural activities to children who have little access to vocational and arts
I am excited this morning. The week ahead is reserved to build and nurture my tools as a practitioner. A few months ago the journey started. Having the opportunity to participate and complete the play therapy course level 1 and 2 at Uylenvlei retreat with Dr Hannie Schoeman was a profound experience that extended my
Thank you very much to Mike Gibbs for sponsoring our new therapy room at Die Bron primary. We are excited to be able from now on to work in a dedicated space for our work. Thank you to Die Bron primary for the wonderful collaboration. The room will be set up as a space where
In the last term, we started to collaborate with the Hoopland Academy in Stanford. For more info see www.ruraleducationsa.com We have been working with the Hoopland team to enrich the afternoon care by offering art and craft activities for their learners. Thank you to the teachers and children at Hooland for a wonderful collaboration. We
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