Relief Day for Holy Cross Orphanage – August 12 2020 This article was originally written by Northern News On the 18th of July 2020 the Holy Cross orphanage in Parow burnt down. While the girls wing was destroyed, no one was hurt. This refuge for children rescued from violence and abuse is normally home to…
Living Through Learning Reading Event days Holy Trinity 4 August 2020 Levana Primary 6 August 2020 We read for over 144 learners that came to the respective schools for the school’s feeding scheme. We had great fun with the learners whilst the schools were still closed. There was a lot of interaction with the learners…
Mkhanyiseli Revamp [Lockdown project] Revamping the classrooms at Mkhanyiseli Primary of Grade 2A, 2B and 2C. Before the lockdown started, LTL staff worked hard to enhance and upgrade three grade 2 classes at Mkhanyiseli Primary School. Our staff members did a great transformation at this school where they painted and kitted the classrooms with the…
Feeding Students at Delft South 21 May 2020 Through out Lockdown LTL has continued supporting many Primary Schools with food parcels whenever possible. LTL reached out to underprivileged families in the communities of Nyanga, Matroos, Lotus River and Wavecrest. LTL combines feeding with reading whenever possible and takes the opportunity to read with the children…
World Book Day 23 April 2020 Since World Book Day took place during the lockdown, we had to think out of the box! We created a compilation video of short animal stories that we sent via Whatsapp to all our curriculum advisors and teachers to pass onto the learners. You can watch one of our…
Reading Strategy Launch 14 March 2020 Ms Chantal Petersen, Senior Education Specialist for the Metro South Education District, invited LTL to collaborate with them. The collaboration involved setting up a joint reading corner at the Western Cape Education Reading Strategy Launch on 14 March 2020. Prior to this event, a meeting was held between ourselves,…
Principals Workshop 12 March 2020 LTL hosted a workshop with all the principals from the various schools that we are actively working in. The collaboration workshop was held to strengthen our partnership with our schools by practically showing them the work that we do in their schools. This was also an opportunity for the schools…
Teacher’s training – February 2020 The training sessions was based on the 3 main challenges that educators are facing daily. The training sessions were rolled out by Sonja Botha and focused on discipline, behavioural disorders, making sure educators have metrics in place to control their classes and know how to manage their workload so that…
Making Reading Fun for World Read Aloud Day 5 February 2020 This event was written about by TygerBurger News LTL celebrated World Read Aloud Day in partnership with Coronation Fund Managers. This event took place in the three Capsule Schools which includes Sonwabo Primary, St Augustine Primary and Vergenoegd Primary. For half an hour between…
The first term’s holiday programme ran from 18-20 March and was implemented in all three capsule schools. The aim of the holiday period is to assist weaker learners to get back on par with their peers. An average of 15 learners per school attended the holiday period. On the last day of the holiday period…