After a busy first term of 2018, Education Support welcomed the Easter holidays and made the most of the time to rest and begin to get excited about the next term. As we have done during most of our holidays for the last year, we had Holiday Hangouts; a time for our ES leaders to …
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March…
The big highlight of March for our High School learners was.....CAMP. 15 of our learners (along with two staff members) had the opportunity to spend a night at Umgeni Nature Reserve in Howick where they engaged in a variety of educational outdoor activities learning more about the ecosystem they were in and challenging their problem-solving, …
February…
Greetings from our little house of fun in Mpophomeni, to those of you in the UK, we hope you are keeping warm in all the snow! February has been BUSY, not with any specific events or celebrations, but busy with LOTS of kids joining Ed Support. 124 new children accessed Ed Support this month and …
Sanibonani 2018
We started back at Ed Support with a BANG, spending some time together as a team preparing and dreaming for the year; registering children and organising kitting out nearly all of our kids with a new school uniform, shoes and underwear. This was all before our sessions and activities started up! In January already we …
2017 celebrations!
The end of another year at Education Support and what a year it has been! We have finished off this month celebrating the end of exams with lots of games, baking, craft and all sorts of other activities. We want to celebrate some of our favourite parts of 2017… …the introduction of sports activities on …
October Ed Support
As we moved into the final term of the year, as a team, we looked back on what our drams for this year were. We were so encouraged to reflect on our year dreams and goals and see that many of them we had achieved and were still running them successfully. 2017 Dreams - Have …
September in Ed Support
So as quickly as August came and went, so did September and the end of term 3! We can't believe we are so close to the end of another wonderful year of fun and learning. I want to start by sharing a story of hope; one of our children who receive mentorship and home support …
2017 so far…
These were some of the Ed Support team's dreams for 2017. It is exciting to see actually how many of these dreams have become a reality this year! We have daily small group devotions; continually staff training and development; we began KwaHaza support and trialled it but this is sadly something that was not sustainable …
Parent’s morning
Today we had our first parent's morning at Ed Support! We had 10 parents turn up, which for a community where parents work long hours and have little involvement in school life - was a very good start. We pray these mornings grow in size as they continue. What a privilege it was to see …
Starting well.
January was a very exciting month for everyone at Education Support, we were busy right from the start with lots of kids continuing support from last year and lots of new children. Excitingly too, lots of boys passionate about learning, more high schoolers and even parents dropping off and collecting their children. We are so …
Lessons. Experiences. Life. 