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Mineral and rock sets: Planning resources for 2025 or a wonderful Christmas gift.
Are you or your kids interested in our fascinating local geology? If so, one of these two sets could be ordered as a gift or as a resource to be used in your classroom in 2025. The single box is an entry-level classroom set. The second, a 2-box set, is an amateur geology set. This set also has an option to include the book: Geological Journeys, if you need to explore some of our fascinating local geology while on your holiday travels. Please see the basic details included in the ads. For orders please contact Barry Bryant directly (082 331 8194 on WhatsApp) or via the links to the Mineral and Rocks group on WhatsApp or contact via Facebook:

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Practical fieldwork camp for the whole family. Parys/ Vredefort impact story 14 to 16 February 2025.
Practical fieldwork forms a vital part of any balanced educational program for kids. Parents sharing in these practical experiences, is even more important. With this in mind, booking is now open for our next highly practical fieldwork camp taking place on a farm outside Parys between 14 and 16 February 2025. Catering for the whole family makes it an ideal opportunity for parents to share in many of the practical experiences with their kids. Many themes are also accredited by those following Kairos, or other curricula where credits can be earned for fieldwork. Topics for credits.
• Overview of the Vredefort impact event. Various aspects of physics.
• Orienteering using compasses.
• Topographical and geological mapping.
• Basic mineral and rock identification in the field and related to the mapping.
• Practical astronomy.
• Scaling down the solar system walk.
• Various chores related to camping.
These then added to round off the learning experience:
• Understanding seasons and phases of the moon.
• Games, stalk the lantern, swimming.
• Live night-time practical chemistry demonstration.
• The launch of a real rocket.
Please see the basic details covered in the ads included. Please contact Barry Bryant directly (082 331 8194 Whatsapp) via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Educationsupport1 to register and for more information regarding the program, menu and more. The following link is to the WhatsApp information group for more details as well as the enrolment forms.
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KZN Battlefields/ Northern Berg/ Golden Gate 08 to 16 March 2025. Educational, family-focused, camping excursion: Focussed mainly on home school families where kids need practical fieldwork exposure as part of their curricula.
Join us for this unique excursion which combines a series of nightly workshops covering a broad swath of South African history background and context, while visiting 5 of the major battle sites in Northern KZN. These workshops then change focus to cover the geology of the Karoo Supergroup, topographical mapping in the area, the pump storage schemes of the escarpment, and finally the groundwork for our guided tour of the dinosaur fossil sites in the Golden Gate Area. These workshops are then practically brought to life as we hike and work in the shadow of some of the most spectacular scenery in South Africa. As with all my excursions, this excursion offers home school families a wide selection of topics and content for those doing Kairos or other curricula, where credits can be earned. This is for both theoretical and practical components covered in this tour.
Highlights of this tour;
•In our build-up to this tour kids will participate in up to 4 online introductory workshops covering the theoretical background in preparation for the tour. They will receive basic notes with predominantly map-based exercises to prepare them for this educational excursion.
• Visits to 5 battlefields covering 3 separate conflicts fought in the area. These played a major role in shaping modern SA.
• We will hike the famous Majuba Hill. This is the scene of the final battle closing the First Anglo Boer War. We will hike the spectacular Tugela Gorge in Royal Natal Highland Park. Finally we tackle some of the spectacular hikes in Golden Gate. This together with a visit to a dinosaur fossil site under the guidance of the top expert in this field; Prof Gideon Groenewalt.
• Added to all this kids will be completing maps covering history, geology, mapping and more as well process through the area.

Share precious moments as a family as you experience the wonders hidden in this 8 day educational tour. Contact Barry Bryant directly on 082 331 8194 or join the info group for more details and to enrolll. Or join the information group on WhatsApp.

Follow this link to join my WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Bal1vtpxgBY6v1c0BEtyLD

KZN Battlefields/ Northern Berg/ Golden Gate 08 to 16 March 2025. Educational, family focussed, camping excursion: Focussed mainly on home school families where kids need practical fieldwork exposure as part of their curricula.
Join us for this unique excursion which combines a series of nightly workshops covering a broad swath of South African history background and context, while visiting 5 of the major battle sites in Northern KZN. These workshops then change focus to cover the geology of the Karoo Supergroup, topographical mapping in the area, the pump storage schemes of the escarpment and finally the groundwork for out guided tour of the dinosaur fossil sites in the Golden Gate Area. These workshops are then practically brought to life as we hike and work in the shadow of some of the most spectacular scenery in South Africa. As with all my excursions, this excursion offers home school families a wide selection of topics and content for which those doing Kairos or other curricula, where credits can be earned. This for both theoretical and practical components covered in this tour.
Highlights of this tour;
• In our build – up to this tour kids will participate in up to 4 online introductory workshops covering the theoretical background in preparation for the tour. They will receive basic notes with predominantly map based exercises to prepare them for this educational excursion.
• Visits to 5 battlefields covering 3 separate conflicts fought in the area. These played a major role in shaping modern SA.
• We will hike the famous Majuba Hill. This the scene of the final battle closing the First Anglo Boer War. We will the hike the spectacular Tugela Gorge in Royal Natal Highland Park. Finally we tackle some of the spectacular hikes in Golden Gate. This together with a visit to a dinosaur fossil site under the guidance of the top expert in this field; Prof Gideon Groenewalt.
• Added to all this kids will be completing maps covering history, geology, mapping and more as well process through the area.

Share precious moments as a family as you experience the wonders hidden in this 8 day educational tour. Contact Barry Bryant directly on 082 331 8194 or join the info group for more details and to enrol. Or join the information group on WhatsApp.

Follow this link to join my WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Bal1vtpxgBY6v1c0BEtyLD

We'd like you to join us for our final outing for the year. Learn the amazing story of the Struben brothers and the opening of the 1st goldmine on the Witwatersrand in 1885. Wonder through the old workings as Rod Kruger tells the amazing story. Sadly, although finding a little payable gold, this mine had not yet struck the main reef discovered in February 1886 on a farm a few km to the South, Langlaagete. The visit will be combined with some of the amazing ecology walks in the reserve. We will end -off in sharing our packed lunch together as a final conclusion to a good year of outings. Please contact Barry Bryant directly on 082 331 8194 via WhatsApp if you can join us.

Family outing on 01 November to visit the old Struben Mine at Kloofendal Nature Reserve.

We'd like you to join us for our final outing for the year. Learn the amazing story of the Struben brothers and the opening of the 1st goldmine on the Witwatersrand in 1885. Wonder through the old workings as Rod Kruger tells the amazing story. Sadly, although finding a little payable gold, this mine had not yet struck the main reef discovered in February 1886 on a farm a few km to the South, Langlaagete. The visit will be combined with some of the amazing ecology walks in the reserve. We will end -off in sharing our packed lunch together as a final conclusion to a good year of outings. Please contact Barry Bryant directly on 082 331 8194 via WhatsApp if you can join us.