{"id":277,"date":"2020-01-12T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africaaplus.org.za\/?p=277"},"modified":"2020-07-15T22:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T22:15:44","slug":"planning-a-a-parents-and-caregivers-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaaplus.org.za\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Planning a A+ parents and caregivers\u2019 evening"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Colleen Daniels, the principal of Gerard\u2019s Educare, Strandfontein, called on Africa A+ to support the staff in planning a parents and caregivers\u2019 evening. On the 5th January Anya Morris, Colleen, and the Gerard\u2019s teachers met to plan the evening.<\/p>

The planning team\u2019s first task was to establish the outcomes for the proposed evening\u00a0 i.e. What do we want the parents and caregivers to take away with them at the end of the evening? Colleen and the educators identified that they would like the meeting to strengthen the trust and collaboration between the parents, caregivers, and staff at Gerard\u2019s. The parents and caregivers would leave the meeting feeling confident that Gerard\u2019s delivers a quality early education and care program that serves the best interest of each child.\u00a0 The planning team decided that the best way to achieve this outcome was to:<\/p>

1- offer the parents and caregivers an experience that showed them what the children do at Gerard\u2019s<\/p>

2- involve the parent\u2019s in processing each experience so that the parents and caregivers make the connection between the children\u2019s play activities and learning, the aims of the 0-4 years National Curriculum Framework, and how each play activity underpins later success at school<\/p>

The parent and caregivers\u2019 meeting took place on the evening of the 8th January at Strandfontein High School.\u00a0 The parents and caregivers participated in drawing, creative collage, hoola hoop and balloon games which exercised their fine and large motor skills, collaboration, creativity, imagination, problem-solving and ingenuity.\u00a0 \u201cJust how do you create a soft, rounded bunny when all you have to work with are\u00a0 pointy paper triangles that don\u2019t fit the task at hand?!\u201d After the activities the Gerard\u2019s staff facilitated a processing activity that actively involved the parents and caregivers in writing up and presenting the outcomes of each activity. The following questions were asked:<\/p>

\u2981 What did you notice? How did you feel?<\/p>

\u2981 What would the children learn if they did the same activity?<\/p>

\u2981 How does this match with the curriculum?<\/p>

By engaging with the questions the parents and caregivers made\u00a0 connections between\u00a0 play and learning, how play underpins learning to read,write,understand mathematics and build relationships, and a happy and successful formal school experience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Planning a A+ parents and caregivers\u2019 evening Colleen Daniels, the principal of Gerard\u2019s Educare, Strandfontein, called on Africa A+ to support the staff in planning a parents and caregivers\u2019 evening. On the 5th January Anya Morris, Colleen, and the Gerard\u2019s teachers met to plan the evening. 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