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25 November 2025
 BC Mediator Awards 2025 are NOW OPEN!

The Basic Concepts Programme (BCP) community is growing, and it's filled with incredible mediators transforming learning.
25 November 2025
Celebrate Our Change-Makers!
Celebrating achievement in the Metro East Education District!
Taking Letter to a new level in BCP Classrooms!
We are off to a powerful start in Mpumalanga
This Heritage Day in South Africa, we reflect on the profound link between a child's cultural identity and their educational journey.
Starting to make a difference in our classes and schools.
Making a difference in the Mpumalanga!
Thinking doesn’t just happen — it’s built.
Meet our accomplished Board Members

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Basic Concepts are the building blocks on which cognition and perception is built.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

Today’s workshop was very interesting because it shows us where to start when you teach letter, e.g. I can see, sound, feel, touch and draw the letter A...

Kwena Basin Education Trust: Project Visit, September 2016

Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

I was very happy about my development on this course… often as teachers we do not pay attention to detail, but because of Basic Concepts I was aware of the lack of language use in my class. I am now using a different approach with my learners and being aware of the small details that make a big change in the way I teach and learners learn. Thank you for this eye opening course.

Schools Improvement Initiative, UCT (June 2013)
INTSHAYELELO PRIMARY

I love the programme. I was not aware of how to introduce a concept … . If I could reverse my years in teaching, I bet I would have produced mathematicians, scientists and doctors.

Metro Central Teacher Comment (July, 2013)

Before the course, I never focused on the main concepts as I never really thought them essential to "real life" as a speech-language pathologist. I now have a very different perspective on why these aspects are important and how they move cognition forward.

ZOOM TRAINING 2 FEEDBACK