How to register your child for homeschooling

How to register your child for homeschooling

Home Schooling’ or ‘home education’, is where a parent of a learner of a compulsory school-going age may provide education for his/her own children at home. As many parents are still hesitant to send their children back to school, the Minister of Basic Education has...
World Against Child Labour Day 2020

World Against Child Labour Day 2020

COVID-19: Protect children from child labour On June 12 every year, the World Day Against Child Labour is witnessed all over the world to raise awareness for the prevention of child labour. Children around the world are routinely engaged in paid and unpaid forms of...
World Water Day 22 March 2020

World Water Day 22 March 2020

Every year, UN-Water sets a theme for World Water Day, and this year it is about how water and climate change are inextricably linked. The aim of the day is to teach adults and children how our use of water will help reduce floods, droughts, scarcity and pollution,...
Benefits of Imaginary Play

Benefits of Imaginary Play

Imaginative play is a wonderful gift through which children can experience fantasy worlds in a risk-free way. It may seem nonsensical at times, to adults, but actually very important work is being done when children engage in “pretend-play”. From slaying...
Learning in the Digital Age

Learning in the Digital Age

The last twenty-five years, or so, have been characterised more and more by the use of digital technology, since the introduction of the internet in 1991. Whereas previously the emphasis was on traditional industry and preparing learners for a manufacturing economy,...
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