The March school holiday workshops (4) Statistics Workshop Reports And, by the numbers … We always have an oversupply of children of all ages in Stanford when the call goes out. We had Read more
The March school holiday workshops (3) Illustration Workshop Reports Drawing on experience Especially for children who may not be articulate in English (although all our participants understand if they are Grade 4 and Read more
The March school holiday workshops (2) Reading Workshop Reports Working on the theme of ‘US!’ On 18th March (Stanford) and 19 March Enlighten Education Trust in Zwelihle in Hermanus, we gave two holiday Read more
The March school holiday workshops (1) Songs Workshop Reports Two Day-Workshops on 18 and 19 March On 18th March (Stanford) and 19 March (Enlighten Education Trust in Zwelihle in Hermanus). The theme of Read more
CBN Children sing their own tune and dance to their own drum General Reports When famous hip-hop singer Janine van Rooy (Blaq Pearl) works with our children, they write songs together. It isn’t easy – and the rules Read more
CBN Reading Club General Reports A new development, and a logical one. We have for some time been working on our methods for monitoring and evaluating the progress our Read more
The CBN Choir – Albert Hall anyone? General Reports Our choir began as a community building exercise,but has grown from there. In Stanford we work with children from two communities and two schools. Read more
Little CBN General Reports OK. This is why we couldn’t avoid forming a Little CBN! They just come along anyway, and during the holidays often have to follow Read more
Teen Team 2019 General Reports After the success of the inaugural Teen Team last year, we have regrouped. This year we have eleven names on our list. With the Read more
Music and Story: Saturday 9th March General Reports We had a workshop at the butterfly centre that was attended by 45 children from Stanford. It was conducted by Vuyokazi Siza. We focused Read more
Role models and Mentors General Reports CBN is very grateful to Phumlani Lose, who gives up many Saturday mornings to CBN. He adds both his voice and his example to Read more
New beginnings General Reports For CBN we have a new, New Year when we hit the first of March and begin our new financial year. So, it IS Read more
Sing together – Be together General News CBN started a choir during 2018 because we believed that it would give the children an identity and a sense of community. It succeeded Read more
Book Detectives (1) General Reports Reading a book is just like being a detective in a TV series. You have to look for clues to make the story work. Read more
March Workshops Workshop Reports CBN offered two workshops in January, but only one in February – the hectic athletics season at schools, but we are in full stride Read more
Clapping games General Reports Children everywhere used to have strong tradition of clapping games. In Africa that tradition still exists and is enjoyed hugely. We usually begin a Read more
Out of Africa: A story workshop 26 January Workshop Reports Moving the focus of story to Africa – where it all began This two-part workshop looked more closely at the origins of story – Read more
Our Team! General Reports The children who come to Children’s Book Network workshops in increasing numbers are volunteers. They want to come. It isn’t part of school. It’s Read more
Birthday Gifts! General News Friends of CBN, Anja and Reto Schleputz recently asked their friends to donate to CBN instead of buying presents for a special birthday! The Read more
Story workshop 26 January 2019 – Out of Africa Workshop Reports Continuing our theme of story and how important it is culturally and socially, we will be working with some stories out of Africa. The Read more