Children’s Book Network is fully prepared to adapt to whatever the current Covid circumstances are. We have full compliance to national regulations and , at all times, and in every case, the safety of our CBN children and our facilitators is uppermost in planning any activities. All children have masks and we replace them regularly […]
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Below, is a link to a short film made during the hugely successful Stanford Festival, which took place in December between lockdowns. Many of the children you will see here are long-standing CBN members – and our choir was invited to be part of the festivities. The energetic lady dancing, singing and being enormously useful,
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This is a picture of the CBN book collection in Lesley’s office. It is made up of: Books from her own collection Books sent for review Books donated and working their way towards the book club Books bought with special donations The critera remains – as always – excellence! Some books which are too difficult
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WEEK 1 (1 March) Cellphone and communications rollout. Daisy and Vuyo to build network. Complete Swimming and all other work in Happiness Books WEEK 2-3 (8 March and 15 March) COLOURS Reading Packs Painting on canvas with acrylic paints WEEK 4-5 (21 March and 28 March) HEARING, LISTENING & MUSIC The CD player will be
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The Happiness books We are happy too. The workbooks the children have been maintaining in the last six months are filled with their writing, pictures, ideas – and hopes. We supply hard-cover notebooks and a multitude of pens and felt-tips. They work through the ideas in their reading packs and do the rest.
Nobody must ever be in any doubt about why we work with Children’s Book Network. It is because of the children. And who are the children? She is a girl who is ten. She still loves pink and a bit of glitter. She watches what her older sister does and would like to do that
The beginning of January is not the beginning of CBN’s year. The beginning of March is when we start to implement the ideas that have simmered and baked during the previous year. The ideas that are freshly cooked and ready to serve. Our Annual report is exceptionally early this year, because it was necessary to
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In 2021 Children’s Book Network enters its tenth year of working with children and reading. We aim for it to be a year to celebrate children as well as books. In spite of everything pandemics and economics can throw at us, we will not give up. There is no question that reading remains the most
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If ever there was a time – a week, a month, a year – when we needed song, dance and light, it was this one. The Stanford Festival’s motto is ‘permission to play’ and the children of Stanford were grateful as well as happy to do just that. Nobody let the necessity for masks and
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Children’s Book Network has a new home. It is an office with carpets, a desk and bookshelves. It also has a collection of boxes of books, stationery, art materials and teddy bears. (The teddy bears arrived in Stanford riding pillion on motorbikes in the annual Biker’s Run, and are much loved reading companions for the
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Yesterday (19th November) a very informal meeting was attended by 14 individuals and organizations working with children in Stanford. Tomorrow … in the future … we hope to be more in contact with each other and able to share what we do, ask for and offer help, and give each other support. The venue was
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At Children’s Book Network, we don’t do black. In keeping with our new Happiness Project for the children, we are offering you the chance to avoid the crowds in the mall next Friday and gift something worthwhile (and yellow) to children who need books and reading. It is much easier than choosing between two-for-the-price-of-one, or
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Pictured are some of the elements of this work around the sense of taste good – and as the gentlemen on the front cover ably demonstrate – bad as well! To see the full 20-page text, go to: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/home-reading-ideas Our Lockdown Learning Project is at the same place.
New module of Happiness Project on site! Read More »
On Thursday 19th at 11.00 am at Madre’s in Stanford, there will be a very informal – and brief – meeting between those involved with the children of this village and surrounds. There is no intention to form a grand-sounding association, have minutes of the meeting, or produce another acronym to confuse the world. The
Pictured here are past staff member Lisa Witherden (left) and mainstay Wilien van Zyl (right) proudly wearing CBN tee-shirts and walking with the Lighthouse2Lighthouse ladies who raise funding for projects in the Overstrand every year. This was one of their practice walks allowing for a great deal of networking and the opportunity to get fit
What a relief to write a different number. The year 2021 already sounds a lot better than the one we have just had (and will never forget). As always, there is no room for complacency, but we have had a look at the future and made plans, whatever happens. Apart from Covid, there is also
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This is what the children receive in their packs every week. Then there are books that are shared between the group, book club books also available, and reading packs containing the reading and activities, and imagination cards that the children are used to using in workshops. There is so much for them to do, that
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An informal meeting will be held at Madre’s restaurant on 19th November at 11.00 for all those working with the children in and around Stanford. AGENDA: • A simple connection and exchange of information so that each of us knows what is happening with other groups. • Creating a visual map of where the children
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Vuyo has been working with CBN for four years now, in a job she gradually expanded into, until we can’t imagine how we managed without her. She began as a workshop assistant, took over the business end of getting permission forms to parents, getting the De Kop informal settlement children to Stanford and even making
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Daisy Verburg arrived for coffee just when we needed her. One thing led to another, as tends to happen with CBN, and she has now started as our official fundraiser and manager of social media. That is going to be a demanding job in this new, and difficult time. Everyone in the world is looking
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