by Julie | Apr 7, 2018 | Volunteer Blog
A dlalanathi perspective on working with Singakwenza…by Linda Smallbones.
It’s early on a Monday morning and we’re all just starting to gather at the venue, getting ready for our workshop. We unload our car, the two of us each having an armload of stuff – shew, this is quite the load for a morning workshop I think as we cart it into the silent, dusty hall.
In rolls Singakwenza, their double cab bakkie packed to the rafters with…recycling! But it’s not actually recycling at all. It’s TOYS! It’s access and opportunities to PLAY! As dlalanathi we are a two-person strong team today. They’re a four-person team and we soon see why. There is a lot of recycling that goes into making toys, but the team unpacks it with efficiency and apparent ease. They’re a team, they’re committed, they’re cheerful and open, and it is a joy to work with them. By the time they have unpacked, the hall is full of colour and the dust seems to have blown away and it is most definitely no longer silent but full of laughter!
This one day workshop we’re running together is actually the start of a working partnership that is ongoing. That’s almost 4 years of working together with one of the most innovative, creative NGOs in KZN. They’re professional and have I mentioned committed? Many times over these years I have seen various 210-065 vce members of the team in and outside of working hours, going where they need to go to promote Early Childhood Education and Development, with the same cheerfulness and commitment as I witnessed in that first workshop we facilitated together.
They’re the early learning experts and dlalanathi brings our expertise in parenting and emotional communication through play. Our joint capacity https://www.pass4lead.com/700-501.html building in home-based, parent-led play and communication is a win-win combination. Using relationship and play to stimulate early learning at home is our joint passion and focus of our partnership. Together, we promote stimulation for young children, many of whom don’t have access to early childhood education. We promote play, protection and stimulation in the home. No fancy programmes or toys 210-260 vce required, just the significant caregiver and his or her willingness to sit on the play mat with his/her child and make an opportunity for shared joy together. We believe in promoting relationship between the caregiver and their child, of the importance of their interactions as their child’s first teacher. We desire to leave the caregiver with a sense of confidence to play with their child in such a way that their relationship is strengthened, the child’s cognitive, emotional and social growth is being stimulated and they are having lots of fun together!
dlalanathi have been honoured to work with Singakwenza. We’ve had our professional https://www.pass4lead.com/700-505.html skills stretched and enjoyed learning from our complimentary practices as NGOs. Together we’ve learned about what has worked and not worked in piloting a brand new home visiting ECD programme. It’s been fascinating, frustrating, stretching and encouraging by turns, as with anything you attempt for the first time…..this is, of course, the way with all the BEST kind of learning!!!
by Julie | Jan 20, 2018 | Blog
The Singakwenza team were delighted to have been selected as joint winners of Best Non Centre Based Programme of the Year at the National Development Agency awards ceremony held in December. The National Development Agency is a branch of the Department of Social Development, and their annual awards are to recognise those that are making a difference in the South African Early Childhood Development space.
This national acknowledgement of the impact of our programme came with R30 000 in prize money, which will be used in helping the programme to train more practitioners and improve access to quality Early Childhood Education for young children.
by Julie | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog
Lots of educators have been very busy preparing their https://www.pass4lead.com/640-553.html classrooms for the new intake of learners this year. Charts in the classroom are an important part of the learning process and are not just there to make the classroom look pretty! However, often the ones that you buy are expensive, not suitable and sometimes even incorrect. Our creches use number charts made from cardboard (the bottom of a beer box works well) with pictures https://www.pass4lead.com/700-802.html from the supermarket specials’ brochures, attached to a rope made from plastic bags. Simple and effective, this chart is used daily in our creches.
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by Julie | Nov 14, 2017 | Blog
What an honour! Singakwenza was awarded Social Enterprise of the Year 2017 by the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Business at their gala dinner on Friday 10th November.
Some of the criteria that the judges took into consideration were the financial stability and sustainability of the organisation, the sustainability of its programmes, the growth of beneficiaries over the last two years, and the collaboration with other NGO’s.
This prestigious award is such a wonderful testament to the hard work, dedication and commitment that our passionate team puts in every day, and we are so grateful 300-101 vce to have received this recognition from the local business community.
We could not have achieved this without the continued 300-075 vce support that we receive, and we want to thank you for the part you play in enabling us to continue to provide solid educational https://www.pass4lead.com/640-864.html foundations for over 1 000 children every month.
Just a reminder that you can keep updated with our news on Facebook (www.facebook.com/singakwenza) or on Instagram (www.instagram.com/@singakwenza_ecd).
If you haven’t got a MySchool card (www.myschool.co.za/supporter/apply/) or linked your MySchool to your Woolies card yet (http://www.myschool.co.za/cardholders/link-your-woolworths-card), please consider doing it now. Anything you spend over the Festive Season will help us to receive more funds without it costing https://www.pass4lead.com/642-996.html you a cent.
by Julie | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog
Threading and sewing involve complicated brain processes and are excellent activities to develop bilateral coordination. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. When a child is “sewing” around this cereal box truck, both sides of his brain are having to give messages to both sides of his body AT THE SAME TIME. Even passing the drinking straw needle from one hand to the other involves this bilateral coordination. Add the instruction that the child has to follow the series of holes around the truck, and this activity now includes development of sequencing and motor planning (Which muscles must I move next 100-105 vce to ensure my needle goes into the correct hole?) The little one who did the activity in the picture coped with the bilateral coordination but needs more practice with sequencing. We use the strands from butternut pocket bags as our “thread” and you can cut shapes out of cardboard cereal boxes to match 200-105 vce whatever theme you are doing for the week.
