During our first two years, we continued to explore the theme of Home – and this will never be all that far from our workshop ideas. But we have expanded into other trains of thought with the Cederberg Stories Project, which began in 2013 and will continue throughout 2014. We found the perfect book to […]
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CBN is about books. Yup. But we approach books in different ways. Making reading cool is what we do – and using electronic media in that crusade works for us, and works for the young people we reach through our workshops. Using iPads has been a long-standing dream, but it didn’t seem really possible until
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On 3rd March CBN held a workshop with Swedish student in Simon’s Town, the workshop was very exciting we were like brothers and sisters, we communicated very well with each other. We had a session learning about iPad, how to use iBook and Book Creator which is our main focus as CBN. During our workshop
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On Friday 21 February and Saturday 22 February, CBN held a two-day workshop on family histories, facilitated by Professor John Parkington. The workshop was held in the CBN classroom at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project and twelve invited participants from Grade Seven attended on both days. We began with family stories, particularly form a book
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On 1st March our latest Swedish visitors touched down at Cape Town Airport, ready for action at Red Hill and other Rotary projects in the Cape Peninsula. There will be an informal two-day workshop with iPads lent to us by Digicape in Cape Town as part of their seeding programme for educational use of iPads.
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The full report for 2013 is now available as a PDF for anyone who needs all the ins and outs (and the ups and downs!) To read it, please click on: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/sites/default/files/resource-documents/children%C2%B9s-book-network-2013-rsb-version3_0.pdf Any further information required is available from: info@childrensbook.co.za
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This article, by Jay Heale, was broadcast on Fine Music Radio, Cape Town, on 13th January 2014. What were you doing on Tuesday 10 December, while thousands walked through the drenching rain to be at the Commemorative Service for Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium? I’ll tell you what I was doing, because you’ll never
The tenth of December 2013: None of us will ever forget the announcement last week that our beloved Madiba had left us during the night. There are different kinds of love, adulation, respect, and admiration but none as powerful as the love of children. Children loved Madiba with unshakeable strength that had nothing to with
My name is Jonica. I live in Clanwilliam but I am from Sterkspruit in Eastern Cape. I am really shy, but when somebody laughs or gossips about me, I don’t care. I want my people to be proud of where they come from. I am proud of my world, my people, my culture, and myself
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Themba wrote: I just love playing soccer with my friends. I also love playing rugby and I love my dog. Jamie I have a small white cat called Kitty-cat. I love playing with her. I also like to go and play in the veld with my friends. I love to go walking in the veld
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On Tuesday 10th of December, in Simon’s Town Library hall, there will be a gathering of storytellers, musicians and children to celebrate the end of one year – and anticipate the beginning of a new one! Programme: Children aged 10,11 and 12 have been invited from Red Hill informal settlement. Transport by bus has been
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After the recent two-day workshop in Clanwilliam, so many children asked for more, that CBN has initiated a Stories on Saturdays project. Our partner in this reading initiative, Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (CLLP) is situated in an old school complex and offers plenty of space for different activities. CBN has been allocated a classroom of
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Grade Four children (9 years old) at Elizabethfontein Primary School wrote about emotions seen on faces. Yellow Happy faces: ‘I draw my friend, and that makes me happy.’ ‘Happy is when you get gold.’ ‘Happy is when the flowers come and the trees get new leaves.’ ‘This face is happy because the girl in that
End of the year exams begin on Monday. Today was the last day suitable to visit the Grade Four class, as promised. At ten o’clock CBN pulled up under a tree. Grade Four were ready. This is a reading school. Today we worked with the idea of emotions, first with story, then with a game
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Jay Heale reflects on changing methods of getting it all down on paper. When I started teaching in South Africa (in the archaic year of 1969) pupils were allowed to use fountain pens, but most still used the old dip-pen, an inkpot and a fresh sheet of blotting paper every week. Yes, really! There was
Books of Africa – Jay Heale writes on some statistics from America, and thoughtfully examines some from his own experience in South Africa. Two sets of statistics have emerged from the United States recently. Well, we know what we think of statistics, don’t we! The US Census Bureau informs us that half of the children
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Ten books with HOME as a major theme Jay Heale’s list of ten books that fit with CBN’s first theme – Home. [Brackets indicate language availability] Picture Books BONGANI’S DAY by Gisele Wulfsohn (Pan Macmillan) [E / A / Xh] A 7-yr-old boy who lives in Westdene, Johannesburg. Photo story of his home, friends, school,
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CBN was very privileged to host a wonderful dance team at our Heritage Day workshop on September 24th. It began with a visit to Elizabethfontein Primary School with Natalie Leens, Senior Librarian for Clanwilliam. Elizabethfontein is the only primary school that I know of that has an affectionate nickname – ‘Betjiesfontein’. We were treated to
The first in a series of ten workshops planned for the Cederberg area got off to an amazing start with great support from the community and, most of all, the children! An hour before the workshop started there was already a buzz as children arrived at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project for the first day.
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This is a compilation of ideas written by the twenty-five children who attended the first Cederberg Stories workshop during the spring holidays. We live close to the Cederberg Mountains. Every day we can see them when we walk to school, when we look out of the window and when we play outside. They are always
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