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A total of 6 schools participated in the netball tournament and 8 schools in the football tournament. The newly formed COC Thornwood Netball and Football teams participated in the event and enjoyed the opportunity to showcase their skills and interact with others.

The ECD children at the Zwelibomvu Centre enjoying a lesson on shapes and colours.

The children in our ECD Centres have continued to benefit from the books received from Bookdash.   The Facilitators were taught by Cecily Fraser (KidZAid)on how best to engage the children in the stories, so as to create a love for reading.   Here one of the ECD children acting out an activity based on one of

Cecily Fraser from KidZAid led an interactive workshop on  April 30th, focusing on effective group work strategies for Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Aftercare volunteers.  At the workshop, Cecily demonstrated how to create homemade playdough providing an engaging hands-on activity for the attendees.  Zinhle Mabhida from the Zwelibomvu ECD Centre showcased her own homemade playdough,

The Saturday Kids Club at Thornwood continues to thrive this year, and now has 50 children from eight different schools attending regularly.  A new Club was launched in KwaNdengezi in April 2004 and has 20 members. The Saturday Kids Club offer a variety of activities tailored to various interests and abilities, including both indoor and

The ECD and Aftercare celebrated Valentine’s day in style – making their own cards to take home to family and friends.

Our four Aftercare Centres reopened in January. It is good to have a safe space where the children can go after school and have fun, a meal and have assistance to do their homework.

Our four ECD Centres opened their doors again in January, with many new little ones joining for the first time. Here they are playing hard, working hard and sleeping hard.

Our School Support Groups have started again in 2024. One of the High school groups in Zwelibomvu having fun together before getting down to some of the more serious discussions about their rules, fears and expectations for the forthcoming year. Purity Khwela is the Group’s Mentor.

At the end of November and early December, many year end parties and even some graduations were celebrated in all the Centres and the Groups. Learners from Weavers Nest Preschool at Highbury Preparatory School donated gifts for all the children in our ECD Centres for Christmas. A big Thank you to them and all our