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COLT Highlights & Daily Activities

We regularly update our Educare news blog on the website to keep you informed of the latest COLT activities and the impact that the educare program is having on the children, staff, volunteers and parents. Also, our campaign posters keep you informed of planned fundraising events during the year.

Care in a time of crisis

It was heart-warming to see Councillor Mark Kleinschmidt (left) donate R5000 to the Lansdowne Primary Healthcare Centre this morning in support of the extra burden

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Sports Day

On Friday 13 March our children participated in a sports day organised by the Early Childhood Development Forum. Over the past couple of weeks teachers

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Books

From listening to Healing Stories our children are then introduced to books and the world inside the books. This step by step process opens the

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Fun Walk

The annual COLT Fun Walk fundraiser took place on Sunday at Rondebosch Common. There was great excitement in the morning when the cars arrived to

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A Day of Love

This week the children have been very busy creating bead bracelets and Valentine cards for their moms. Yesterday the moms joined their children for a

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Community fire

Over the weekend a number of our school families were affected by shack fires in the Hadji Ebrahim settlement. While their shack was burning down

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Class in progress

Teacher Nushfeekah had everyone’s full attention this morning as she introduced the children to the lives of farm animals. Using one of her unique stories

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Class 2020

Our class of 2020 has settled into the Educare routine incredibly quickly, even young Mia who was quite tearful on the first few days. Sisanda,

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Retreat 2020

To provide a sacred, safe and loving environment for our traumatised children it is important that the teachers and dedicated Educare volunteers working with the

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End of year party

We celebrated our end of year party seated around a long table that was beautifully set in festive colours. Children who had left the school

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Jacqueline graduates

On Wednesday 20 November six children graduate from the Children of Light Educare. This is our first group of graduates! Jacqueline started with us at

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Educare transport

Our children and parents who are from three different informal settlements rely 100% on the school providing transport to and from school every day. It

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We like to keep busy.

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