Creative Workshops now also offered in Masakhane, Gansbaai
We have expanded the reach of our Creative Workshops in Stanford to include the Masakhane community near Gansbaai. Masakhane is a township of about 12 000 residents, most of…
Building puzzles, building skills at Stanford Creative Works
Many children we see in our school-based program have difficulties with their visual perception skills. This means that information that is received through the eyes and sent to the brain…
Parents Workshop at Die Bron Primary School
This term we offered another workshop for the parents of the foundation phase learners at Die Bron Primary in collaoration with Jenny van Velden from the Principals Academy. The parents’…
Our theme of body awareness and working through the senses continues
Body awareness is essential as our bodies are the base from which we experiencing everything else. Body awareness means the understanding of one’s own body, the location of the different…
Stanford Creative Works: Open workshops
Over the past few weeks we explored a variety of themes and projects in our extramural afternoon workshops. We offered beading activities, movement and games, craft with nature materials, clay…
Basic concepts training at Die Bron
On 23 June we had our 4th session with Louis Benjamin from the Basic Concepts Training and the domain we focused on was position. The Basic Concepts Training aims to…
It’s the little things that count
The term is coming to an end. While reflecting on the past few months and all the children, activities and programs that we did, I ask myself what stands out. Our…
Workshop Impressions
Here are impressions from our open workshops over the first term of this year. We did a variety of projects over the past 3 months in our open sessions. Children…
Stanford Creative Works (SCW) Parents’ Workshop
Over the past two months we have invited parents and kindergarten teachers to a variety of workshops with the aim to give them hands on practical skills to use at…
‘Movement Breaks in the Classroom’ – Teacher’s Workshop
Co-ordinated by Stanford Creative Works (SCW): Regina Broenner & Daniel Hewson When: Saturday 28 January 2017 Venue: Vista Nova School for special needs learners On Saturday 28 January SCW ran a…