7.30h - :
Registration
8.45h: Opening
address by Kate Durham, Chairperson
KZNHSA
Presentations (9 to 12.30 h)
9.00h. What
is homeschooling?
Charmaine Holloway deals with questions such as
why home
educate, its impact on family life and socialisation.
A ‘must’ for new and prospective homeschoolers
9.30h. Learning styles. Natalie Bekker will deal with how children
gather, process and act on
information, and how to identify areas of strength, weakness, frustration
and potential conflict.
10.00h. Spatial
awareness, higher level cognitive skills and home schooling: can they be
combined? Debbie Stott deals with the use of GIS
(Geographic Information System)
in education.
TEA BREAK (10.30 – 11.00)
11.00h Keynote address 1:
Prof. Betty Wiechers (UNISA) will
present findings from Deirdre Bester’s award-winning Masters thesis on
homeschooling in SA
11.45h Keynote address 2: Homeschooling policy: threats and
opportunities.
Leendert van Oostrum (Pestalozzi Trust) will discuss the present legal
status of homeschooling in
SA.
LUNCH (12.30 – 14.00)
Workshops - Booking
essential!! (see below)
14.00h. Teaching children to
read using a Psycholinguistic approach, by Sally-Anne
Wagner. A simple, engaging,
child-centred approach to extend vocabulary and creative thinking skills.
FREE!
14.00 & 15.00h. Maths Action Workshops.
With more than 30 years experience
in teaching maths, Ines Sim will
present a fresh approach to maths and thinking, diagnostic evaluation
and how to inspire children.
Sessions at 14.00 h for Grades 4 &
5, and 15.00 h for Grades 6 & 7.
Cost: R25 per child.
Trade exhibition
Sponsors will display a wide range of curricula and educational material
in the main hall throughout
the day
Q & A session (16.00 h)
Free refreshments and an opportunity for participants to “ask the experts”
about salient issues
arising from the presentations earlier in the day.
Activities for children
Sports and games throughout the day.
FREE! All children
win a prize for entering!
Young entrepreneurial tables where children can develop marketing skills.
(By prior
arrangement!)
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Entrance fee: R50 per family (or R30 individual entry)
Includes conference
proceedings (with extended abstracts of the presentations,
advertisements and contact details of sponsors), free children
entertainment and automatic entry for a raffle of R500 worth in book vouchers courtesy of
For further information, to book workshops or entrepreneurial tables
phone Bev (031- 783 4184)
