Learning Gains through Play project team members Janet Thomson, Hlengiwe Mfeka, Tracey Butchart (project evaluator) and Rodney Nissen (WCED) visited two project schools on Wednesday and Thursday from the 3rd – 4th of February 2016. The new principal of Temperance Town Primary, Mrs Zaibaunesa Windvogel welcomed us into her office, and we had a chat […]
Teachers from project schools have been sharing their experiences and lessons learnt at a number of conferences. Please click on the reports for the following events to read their reports: Microsoft Road Show – Durban Yacht Club SchoolNet Conference – St Mary’s Kloof RASA conference – The Baxter Theatre, Cape Town – Florence, Italy
During afternoons, weekends and school holidays during 2015, teachers and senior management teams from the 10 project schools in KZN and Western Cape have been attending professional development workshops. Thembelihle Primary has been kindly hosting the workshops in Howick and the Metro East District has been hosting the Western Cape workshops. For current reports please access the news […]
The Learning Gains through Play (LGP) project focuses on the development of foundational literacies in Grades R and 1 through the innovative use of technology-enabled, learner-centred play in ten schools from the two provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. The purpose of this article is to share the findings of the first evaluations of […]
The Learning Gains through Play (LGP) project focuses on the development of foundational literacies in Grades R and 1 through the innovative use of technology-enabled, learner-centred play in ten schools from the two provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. The purpose of this article is to share the findings of the first evaluations of […]
It was a where and about on the weekend of the 23 October 2015 for the WC LGP project teachers. They came in numbers at Metro East Education District, to attend the most popular module Scavenger Hunt which is never short of fun and excitement. Scavenger Hunt teaching strategy is more like a game in which […]
The Reading Association of South Africa and the Pan-African Reading for All Conference was held at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town from 2nd – 5th September. The theme was Imagination and Literacy. SchoolNet‘s D. G. Murray Trust project, Learning Gains through Play, fitted this theme well and, therefore, a project team of six was […]
Saturday 19 September 2015 was freezing with pouring rain in the KZN Midlands, BUT that didn’t prevent teachers in the Learning Gains through Play project from attending their TPD workshop at Thembelihle Primary School in Howick. The workshop for the two modules to be covered, Mind mapping and Gallery Walk, was attended by 16 out of […]
The DG Murray Trust have been very generous in their support of the Learning Gains through Play project being implemented in KZN and the Western Cape. One year into the project it was time for members of the Board of Trustees from DG Murray to visit one of the project schools in order to see […]