On Friday 13th October, CBN delivered the third of our prototype reading toolboxes to Red Cross at a 2-hour workshop attended by members of Rotary Newlands (who donated the toolbox) and the principal and members of the staff of the hospital school, which does vital work in keeping hospitalised children interested and distracted. It’s challenging […]
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Two prototype toolboxes have already been handed over – to Red Hill informal settlement above Simon’s Town and to Sevile School in Khayelitsha. A third box will be donated by Rotary Newlands at a small workshop for teacher-librarians at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. This workshop is designed to open communications about what works – and
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These workshops extended over three days and were attended by between 26 children (first day) and 18 children (third day). Some children were away visiting relatives in E Cape during the school holidays. The theme was enthusiastically embraced by a very mixed age group of children – while a couple of younger siblings made drawings
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OUR WORLD PROJECT History This project started on 24 September with an introduction to the ideas of place and person – who I am and where I live – and will continue until after the summer workshops. Tuesday 3 October Introducing me! Wednesday 4 October My place INTRODUCING ME Nash will begin the workshop with
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CBN will be giving two workshops in Stanford during the holidays, carrying on with the theme of ‘Our World’ launched here last week. The workshops will be on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th October, from 10.00 to 12.30. As usual, the children will be given snacks and juice when they arrive and a sandwich lunch
CHILDREN’S BOOK NETWORK (CBN) www.childrensbook.co.za WHAT WE DO: Work with under-resourced children Children who are aged 10, 11 & 12 Children who can read … but don’t We work in English – with translators available We work with communities, not usually with schools We work through community leaders and librarians We give workshops lasting from
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On Heritage weekend (23 September), CBN held the first of a series of workshops around the landscape and lives of children in the Overstrand region. They got off to a cracking start! Facilitators Primrose Mrwebi and Lesley Beake led the charge (after the necessary biscuits and juice for the children). We focused on two books
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Our next workshop will be on Saturday 23 September at 10.00, at The Butterfly Centre in Stanford. This is the beginning of a project that will extend into the summer holidays, where we will be looking at the world of the children in Stanford, Hermanus and Gansbaai (and, hopefully, other places in the Overstrand region).
Big new project!– Big new topic! Read More »
CBN is back in action, and the beginning of official spring, and the end of our short break has been kicked-off by the most marvellous generosity from Friends of Children’s Book Network in England. Ten business people in Worthing on the south coast of England were drawn into a plan hatched by Roger McCartney (who
On 3, 4 & 5 July CBN held a workshop with Enlighten Education Trust at their premises in Hermanus. We had a high attendance level with around 22 on the first day, 26 on the second day – and about forty on the third day! Recruits kept coming through from the wonderful Alex Bury Library
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CBN has successfully handed over three reading toolboxes that were sponsored by Rotary Newlands (2) and the Crankhandle Club. These boxes will go to teacher-librarians in under-resourced schools in order to help increase awareness in books and reading. The toolboxes were received by Phumla Sibene, Principal of Sevile Primary School in Khayelitsha and her school
CBN has been busy developing a reading game during this year. Research was begun by Rosemary Bangham and Emily Halinan on an original idea by Lesley Beake, and further developed by Chantel Oosthuysen with designer Siobhan Twomey. As with everything we do, it is a work in progress, very much based on the reactions of
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We need more local assistance – people who can help us with the detail, follow up on contacts, find discounts for supplies, help with catering. We have a very small, but loyal and hard-working team, but we are stretched beyond capacity. When the admin takes too much of our time, we are not able to
Numbers are not the most important thing when it comes to books and reading, but it is interesting to note that BWYR last week reached between 7 000 and 8 000 young readers and potential readers from pre-school to Matric in the Franschhoek valley. That took 60 volunteer book people – storytellers, writers, illustrators, poets
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The final programme is in and the excitement is building for the week when book people meet children in Franschhoek before the festival begins. This year we have over fifty visitors confirmed and we will begin with the pre-readers and early readers on Monday 15th and work our way steadily through until a programme for
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Our theme for the next three months will be Local Heroes and we got off to a heroic start on Saturday where we introduced the idea of reading heroes and the fact that – whatever kind of hero you want to be – you have to read. The team was a large one. We were
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On Saturday 22 April at 10.30 we will assemble once again at the Butterfly Centre, this time for a celebration of Local Heroes. Inspirational singer-songwriter Blaq Pearl will be with us again and the children will be writing, and performing, their own song: ‘We can do it!’ Sports heroes will also be represented, with Shane
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Eggzactly as eggspected, 21 children arrived at the Butterfly Centre for a pre-holiday weekend workshop that promised fun stories, fun books … and also fun. This time we began (after some stretching and tummy-rubbing to warm up) with a longer story than usual, the charming tale narrated by the Number One Car Spotter from his
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We will be exploring some design ideas around the shape of eggs, decorating real eggs and – most importantly – hearing some stories that are mostly for fun this time. There is a faint possibility that we might have some chocolate eggs to take home as well. The children will be meeting at 10.00 at
Eggs-actly! A fun workshop in Stanford 13 April Read More »
We took an exceptionally well behaved group of children to Overberg Honey on 10th April, accompanied by community helper Akona and volunteer Anne Mckeag. Overberg Honey is beautifully thought out for groups of visiting children – and not everywhere can claim that! The two guides (Nauthaando and Aaron), who took us through the process of
