Our Programmes
Centre-based programmes focus on ECD teaching and management within the centre environment. In addition to in-person training, we provide regular site visits to participating ECDs throughout the training to ensure site heads and practitioners are able to implement their learnings in their ECDs.
Accredited Skills Programmes
C.A.R.E
CARE of Babies, Toddlers and Young Children Skills Programme.
CARE Skills Programme for site heads and practitioners focuses on creating an ECD environment to cater for the needs of the children, including basic hygiene, nutrition, stimulation and development through age-appropriate activities and the centre’s day to day management. This programme aims to ensure that basic ECD practices are put in place.
Money Management Programme
Financial management for ECD site heads and practioners
The Money Management Programmeis tailored for ECD site heads to learn practical financial principles. This programme helps site heads manage money effectively, supporting the growth of their businesses.
Child Development Programme
Equips ECD practitioners with tools to create learning activities
The Child Development Programme is designed for site heads and practitioners to help them understand children's developmental milestones and their roles in enhancing and supporting this development.
The Child Protection Workshop
Equips ECD practitioners and site head with tools to aid in child safety.
The Child Protection Workshopon Protective Behaviours for site heads and practitioners provides essential knowledge on creating safe environments for children and recognizing behaviours that may require intervention.
Workshops
Learning Resources Workshop
These workshops have been developed to enable ECD practitioners to fully utilize the learning and teaching opportunities implicit in equipment usually seen as “toys”. This includes the use of resources in age-appropriate activities to enhance the development of the children in their care. In addition, the workshops are designed to encourage participants to construct and use simple but effective resources out of household and recycled materials.
Parental Workshop
These workshops use a poster campaign to deliver key messages about nutrition, rights, developmental areas, etc., to parents or guardians of babies, toddlers, and young children. The objective of the workshops is to encourage continued learning and stimulation at home through parental guidance.
National Curriculum Framework (NCF) Workshop
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) provides guidance for those developing programmes and working with babies, toddlers, and young children from birth to age four. The NCF promotes a holistic vision of ECD which pays attention to:
- The first 1000 days which are the windows of opportunities for interventions before birth and the first two years of life after birth; and
- The third and fourth years of life and the time before the child enters primary school The NCF therefore focuses upon the child from before birth through to the time that she enters Grade R.
ECD Management Skills Programmes
ECD Governance and Compliance Programme
A compliant early childhood development centre meets the requirements of the Department of Basic Education, departments of social development, and the local departments of health. These requirements include having a valid registration certificate, meeting the norms and standards for infrastructure, health and safety, staff qualifications, curriculum and learning programmes, and being subject to quality assurance review or inspection at least once a year. The programme is designed to allow principals to self-reflect and check their progress against the requirements.
ECD Forum Leadership Training Programme
The initiation of ECD forums aim to facilitate interactions for groups of ECD stakeholders on topics of interest. Including child safety, healthy menus, ECD registration requirements, and the shift in ECD responsibility from the Department of Social Development to the Department of Basic Education. Additionally, the forums seek to improve teaching and learning in ECD centres through the advocacy of play, empowerment of ECD owners through business mentorship, and by creating a collective voice within communities to highlight the learning issues young children often face, and how to collectively address such issues
Inclusion Programme
The programme aims to raise awareness on children with learning barriers in ECD centres to promote inclusive education.
