FunDza’s fourth year with Year Beyond

FunDza’s fourth year with Year Beyond

This is the fourth year that we are providing the English programme content to the Western Cape’s Year Beyond after-school programme, where young volunteers work with learners in the afternoons. FunDza provides an online curriculum, and also books as back-up for when...
Calendar for February

Calendar for February

5 and 6 February: Dorothy Dyer and Sonja Kruse attend a Year Beyond bootcamp. 6 February: FunDza lunchtime video hour and discussion: Amel Karboul’s Ted Talk “The global learning crisis – and what to do about it” 8 February: Sonja Kruse kicks...
Fun and games at YEBO!

Fun and games at YEBO!

During the July holidays FunDza ran refresher training for the youth volunteers who run the Year Beyond (YEBO) programme. FunDza has been part of YEBO since its inception over three years ago. YEBO trains youth volunteers who run extra-mural online English and Maths...
Changing the game at the After School Symposium

Changing the game at the After School Symposium

On 16 and 17 February I attended the Western Cape After School Game Changer Symposium, organised by the Western Cape Government and The Learning Trust. The conference focused on after-school programmes and how to make them more effective. FunDza is participating in of...
Reviewing FunDza’s online reading curriculum

Reviewing FunDza’s online reading curriculum

FunDza is in the process of developing an online curriculum which we mainly piloted last year with the Western Cape’s Year Beyond project in eight high schools. However as the computers and Internet were not always functioning at these schools, and so the learners...
The year end of the Year Beyond

The year end of the Year Beyond

By Dorothy Dyer The Year Beyond is an interesting and challenging Western Cape Government project that had in this last year young volunteers going into 16 local no-fee paying schools and running extra-mural support programmes for learners in the afternoons. The...
Year Beyond Training

Year Beyond Training

In 2014, FunDza launched a fourth programme Deepening Reading Practice which is being piloted in the Western Cape as part of the wider Year Beyond project, to provide academic and other support to high school learners. Through this programme FunDza will ultimately...