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Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1

Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 08:00 to Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 16:00

Visit 1: Initial Set-Up Training For The Project

The visit aims to initiate the school's teachers and volunteers to the project.

They will all receive the first two days of the BCP training.

Thereafter, both teachers and volunteers will start to practise the first two conceptual domains (colour and shape) until the end of the year.

A follow up support visit will be offered before the end of the year.

 

Details of the training:

Date: 17 + 18 September

Time: 8-00 - 16h00

Venue: Die Bron Primary School

Participants: Foundation Phase Educators and Star Literacy Project

 

See docs below for feedback from training

 

Practical, useful, clear, scaffolded for use in the classroom. Very approachable lecturer and lessening of anxiety through post-workshop contact.

Open Public Training, 2015 (Cape Town)

It is a method of teaching…to establish the basic foundations or building blocks in order for children to make sense of the environment around them.  

Die Bron Primary School: Visit 1

The emphasis on language throughout the programme helps to develop learners' understanding of concepts and expand their vocabulary. The BCP stops learners from guessing, it gives them more structure and develops their cognitive functioning.

Metro Central Teacher Comment (July 2013)

Strategies to help teachers to support learners to think, as well as thinking about how thinking occurs and what the gaps might be.

Open Public Training, Cape Town (2013)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)

The BCP is the best place to start for learners with limited vocabulary and for closing the vocabulary gap.

Christel House Training, July 2014

Very informative. Well planned. Well organised. Based on CAPS. Good intervention programme.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)