Cognovate is a non profit focusing on children's learning and development particularl through reading
05/06/2025
SADTU in KwaZulu-Natal calls for urgent action as it says education department has 'collapsed' The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has called for urgent action to address the department's financial problems that are now impacting on schools.
13/08/2024
Great session by Vvob on this pilot phase of the project. Looking forward to and hopefully supporting the roll out and supporting this much needed programme in KZN.🧡 Learning through play. KZNDOE
17/02/2023
In South Africa 78% of children do not learn to read for meaning by the age of 10. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has convened the annual '2030 Reading Panel' to bring together respected South African leaders to ask: "What needs to change for us to ensure that all children learn to read by 2030?"
08/09/2022
In commemoration of Literacy Month, the National Reading Coalition (NRC) in partnership with the Department of Basic Education’s Read to Lead Campaign, launched the 1 Million Storybooks project on 02 September, at the Hlalisanani Primary School, in KwaMhlanga Mpumalanga.
The 1 million storybooks project is aimed at addressing the shortage of reading resources for pleasure in indigenous languages, to promote and inculcate a culture of reading amongst Foundation Phase learners in and outside of the classroom. A total of 1 million copies of 189 Foundation Phase stories have been developed and versioned into 9 indigenous languages, where they will be distributed to 8882 Primary Schools in 444 circuits identified by the NRC throughout literacy month.
The digitised stories are also accessible on the NRC website for download on www.nrc.org.za/books 📚
28/10/2021
Mindfulness and sequencing exercises at a Ward 68 primary school in 2019
16/10/2019
The School Based Support Team is one of the most important structures within the schooling system when we look at the implementation and provision of support and reasonable accommodations for children with support needs.
Please feel free to download our factsheet and share – any questions or enquiries please contact [email protected]
http://ow.ly/9tiU50wMoNi
07/10/2019
Sample physical excercises that target attention, focus, processing speed and self-control whilst having fun, of course.......... all ending with a mindfulness excercise through relaxation n stillness techniques😉🌸
07/10/2019
Our team was so excited to spend our morning at Assegai Primary. We're looking forward to kick-starting our brain training program. I think the kids enjoyed the teaser we put out today. Thankful once again to Principal Field and Dep Principal Brackenburg for the warm reception.
23/09/2019