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Results from the Test of Word Knowledge
13 February 2017 to 17 February 2017
Support Visit to Project Schools in 2017

This was the first of three visits to the project in 2017, the final year of the project.
Results from the Test of Basic Concepts Knowledge

Grade 1 - 3 learners have been tested since the project started in 2014 when the baseline data was gathered.
Results  from the Test of Basic Concepts Knowledge

The TBCK was again administered at the end of the year. This was the first maintenance year of the project.
20 April 2017 to 24 April 2017
Learning how to administer the Revised Test of Basic Concepts Knowledge (TBCK-R).
Become a BC Mediator from the comfort of your home no matter where you are in the world.
03 November 2016

First Follow-up and Support Visit
17 September 2016 to 18 September 2016
Visit 1: Initial Set-Up Training For The Project

The visit aims to initiate the school's teachers and volunteers to the project.
21 November 2016 to 25 November 2016
Support Visit to teachers with Department Officials
15 September 2016
A Basic Concepts Refresher For Teachers From Metro Central

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

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

I found all aspects of the course very effective.  I now have a very good understanding of how to teach all the concepts.  I am going to be more specific and detailed when I teach. I need to research and plan my basic concepts lessons ...

Ikwezi: Schools Development Unit, July 2014

I learned a new language to use with my learners.

Metro Central: Training, October 2014

‘BCP is foundational to a child's learning. It is the building blocks on which all other concepts are built. A concept needs to be fully understood by a child before a new concept can be taught. We often rush children's learning due to time constraints which is not correct.’ (KIDZPOSITIVE, Occupational Therapist, 2011)

Teacher Feedback

‘Although I have been teaching Grade R for 23 years... I have learnt so much over the past 2 weeks and have already seen a change in most of my learners.’ (Metro Central, 2012)

Teacher Feedback

I really cannot wait to start- I want all my children to be Grade 1 ready at the end of this year.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015